Macon County GEAR UP AL Facilitator
Ms. Ethel O. Greene
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Ms. Ethel O. Greene serves as the GEAR-UP Alabama Facilitator for Booker T. Washington High School and Notasulga High School. She has served some 40+ years in the educational arena in numerous capacities.
She began her career as a Teacher Intern at Dunbar High School in East Baltimore, Maryland in the late 70’s, and worked as a classroom science teacher in Anne Arundel County, Maryland and Washington, D.C. Public Schools for 11 years. While in DCPS, she was selected as the science Mentor Teacher for all 1st and 2nd year science teachers hired in the District for two years, followed by three years as the Secondary Science Curriculum Specialist and 21st Century Science and Math Program Co-Director. This position lead her to being named as Assistant Principal of Douglass Junior High School for one year before relocating to Alabama to become Principal of D.C. Wolfe School in the Macon County Alabama Public School District for seven years. Mrs. Greene took a Principalship in Montgomery Public School at Cloverdale Junior High, closing after two years and opening the newly constructed McKee Junior High for another two years.
In 2004, she moved to Jonesboro, GA and taught science once again, at Jonesboro High School and Atlanta Public School’s Harper-Archer Middle School (Her old High School). After two years in GA, she relocated to Fort Bend County, TX (Sugar Land), and began teaching Biology and Chemistry at Kempner High School. While in Texas for six years, she was trained to become a certified Parole Officer for youth offenders for three years. She eventually moved back to the Washington, D.C. area and retired there after six years as Assistant Principal and Acting Principal of Langdon Education Campus (PK-8). Following retirement in August 2015, she moved back home to Tuskegee and has since served as a substitute Principal and Assistant Principal at several Montgomery Public Schools for the past 2 years prior to accepting the position of GEAR-UP Alabama Site Facilitator.
Mrs. Greene earned her M.A. degree from University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) and her Bachelor of Science degree from Tuskegee Institute (now University). She is the proud mother of two lovely daughter and one handsome son, as well as “Grammy” to one grandson and three granddaughters. She is a consummate learner and tries to learn something new each day. She loves turning on light bulbs and seeing them shine forth in the future.