Green Fields Welcomes New Lower School Principal

GREEN FIELDS COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL WELCOMES

NEW LOWER SCHOOL PRINCIPAL DIANA HILL

Tucson, AZ – Tucson teacher and school administrator Diana P. Hill joined the Green Fields Country Day School faculty as principal of the Lower School, which includes kindergarten through fifth grade.

Green Fields is serves a diverse population of students in grades K-12 with a challenging curriculum that emphasizes the humanities, math and science, fine arts, athletics and personal development.

For the past nine years Hill was director of Tucson Community School and was a substitute teacher at that preschool and kindergarten from 1994 to 1999. She previously assisted at Sunrise Elementary School. She served on the Green Fields Board of Trustees from 2002 to 2006 and is currently president of the Southern Arizona Association for the Education of Young Children. She's a frequent presenter at the National Association for the Education of Young Children.

Hill grew up in Washington, Connecticut on a dairy farm two hours from New York City. She received her bachelor of science degree in elementary education from the University of Vermont. She also spent a year studying in Voss, Norway. She moved to Tucson in 1980, met her husband and started their family. She's volunteered for the Foster Care Review Board and Young Audiences of Southern Arizona.

Located on 22 acres in northwest Tucson, Green Fields began in 1933 as a boarding school for boys and has evolved into one of Southern Arizona's leading, independent college preparatory schools for boys and girls grades K-12. Class sizes are small – just 10 to 12 students – and most teachers have advanced degrees. The curriculum includes core classes in English, social studies, science and math, plus foreign languages, the visual and performing arts, technology, publications and athletics. In a typical year, 100 percent of the graduating class goes on to attend four-year colleges or universities. Now celebrating 75 years, Green Fields is Southern Arizona's oldest independent college preparatory school.

For more information about Green Fields, call 297-2288 or visit http://www.greenfields.org/.

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