About Franklin Hill, PhD
Senior Management Educational Facility Consultant and Oversight
Frank Hill, Ph.D., is an internationally recognized educational facility planner and futurist for appropriate educational change. Dr. Hill’s interdisciplinary credentials and experience allow him to take a comprehensive view of capital resource management, present/future planning requirements and provide legitimate trend analysis in educational curriculum and facility design within budget.
Dr. Hill has provided very successful marketing consulting services and sales enhancement presentations for world-class architectural firms nationally and internationally. Ahead of the trend in 1993, he has promoted the now popular “small learning communities” model for educational design during his planning of the Disney Celebration School in Orlando, Florida. He then applied these learning community concepts to new and remodeled schools across the US and internationally.
Dr. Hill was involved in eight out of the nation's top 100 high schools identified in a US News and World Report feature addition on education. Since opening an international practice in 1987, Franklin Hill & Associates has planned over 250 schools, exceeding $3 billion in construction. It now provides consulting services and oversight across North America and numerous foreign countries, including Canada, Russia, England, Denmark, Kuwait, Ghana, Philippines, and Malaysia.
In Kuwait, Dr. Hill was the exclusive educational specialist planner for 6,000,000 GSF of school campus construction on three campuses planned to serve 9,000 special needs students, including autism, deaf, blind, and physically and mentally challenged students. Consulting involvement over two years has included tours of international primer programs, setting the educational vision for design, space programming, functional design, and design review.
Academic Credentials:
- BA Economics and Finance, University of Michigan
- MA Urban Planning, University of Sheffield, England
- MA Curriculum/Administration, University of Michigan
- Ph.D. Education and Planning, University of Michigan
- Post-Doctoral Studies: Environmental Impact Analysis, Florida State University
Professional Experience:
- Franklin Hill & Associates International Consulting Firm Since 1987
- Vice President of a 40-Person Architectural Firm
- Vice President of a 100-Person Construction Program Management Firm
- Director of Facility Planning for a 100,000-Pupil School District
- Teacher and School Administrator
Unique Projects Include:
- Kuwait Special Needs School
- Ghana World Bank Presentation on “Brain Drain Mitigation” and “Migration Reduction”
- Celebration K-12 School, Disney Development Company, Celebration, Florida
- Burnaby K-12 Schools, Vancouver, British Columbia (IBM/BC Tel)
- ENLOE “Magnet High School of America,” Raleigh, North Carolina
- Corporate Electronic Learning Centers, US and Canada
- Brookfield Zoo K-12 Immersion School, Chicago, Illinois
- International Nurse Culturalization and Immigration Facilities, Philippines, 2006
- The Benchmark “School of the Future,” Dr. Phillips High School, Orlando, Florida, 1987
For more information about our services and experiences, call (425) 466-5754.
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