Franklin Hill & Associates
Franklin Hill, Ph.D.

Frank's interdisciplinary credentials and experiences allow him to take a whole systems view of capital investment requirements, present and future planning requirements, and legitimate trend analysis in educational curriculum.

Hill promoted the "small schools" concept during the 1993 planning of the Disney Celebration school, Orlando, Florida and
applied the concepts to remodeled middle/high school facilities.

Hill has provided educational facility planning services and technology expertise across the United States as well as in numerous foreign countries including: Canada, China, Malaysia, Russia, Israel, Denmark, China and England.

Franklin Hill planned 9 out of the top 100 high schools in a recent US News & World Report article on education.

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 for a 100-person construction program management firm
• Director of facility planning for a 100,000-pupil school district
• Educator and school administrator

Franklin Hill & Associates has planned over 300 schools exceeding $2 billion (US) in construction.

Special projects include:

• Celebration K-12 School-Disney Development Company, Celebration, Florida
• Burnaby K-12 IBM High Schools-Vancouver, British Columbia
• Enloe "Magnet High School of America", Raleigh, North Carolina
• Pilot Design-Build P-3 Middle School (Public Private Partnership)- Nova Scotia
• Corporate Electronic Learning Centers-US and Canada
• Scarsdale Middle School, Hinsdale High Schools, Highland Park High School
• Brookfield Zoo Immersion School, Chicago, Ill.

ARTICLES/BOOKS

ASBO's School Business Affairs Journal:

• "Smaller Schools Are Good … It Depends!" December 2001
• "Change is Good … Wrong!" December 2000
• "Betting on Better Design, What Can Schools Learn from Casinos?" July 1996
• "Strategic Thinking on Facility Design" January 1996
• "Average or Gifted Buildings?" August 1995
• "Less Area-More Education" June 1995
• "Learning Modalities-The Effect of Facility Design on Performance" May 1995

NASSP's Schools In the Middle:

• "Harmony in Design-It's a People Process!" November/December 1997

NASSP's The High School Magazine:

• "The Metamorphosis of School Design" May/June 1998

CEFPI's Educational Facility Planner:

• "Facilities Planning-a catalyst for educational technology restructuring" 1989
• "Making Your School a Learning Tool" 1995
• "Learning Modalities: Facility Design Impacts on Performance" 1996
• "Impact of Design on Cognitive Learning" Journal 2004

T.H.E. Journal:

• "Home Based Middle School: Implications for Facility Design" February 1990

School Planning and Management:

• "Less Building, More Results" April 1996
• "School Planning: Lessons Learned at the Celebration School" August 1998

Ties Magazine:

• "The School As A Learning Tool" April/May 1997

Media & Methods Magazine:

• "Design & Remodeling that Complement Tech Integration" August 2004

School Facilities Magazine:

• "Impact of Design on Classroom Media and Cognitive Learning" July 2004
• " School Design Impacts upon Cognitive Learning, August 2005
• " The Disney Celebration School - Ten Years of Celebrating the Future January 2005
• " Green Schools "Create" Learning Tools January 2005
• " Redevelopment Planning after Hurricane Katrina - Challenges Facing Education and School Facility Design" September 2005
• " Community Involvement - Is It Rinky Dink Or A Chance To Think?" July 2005
• " Planning Playgrounds and Athletics Facilities - Part of the Educational Specifications Planning Process" June 2005
• " School Facilities - School and Classroom Furniture" May 2005
• " Impacts of Design on Learning: Multimedia in the Classroom" July 2004
• " I Can't Believe They Did That - Do's and Dont's September 2005
• " Facility Master Planning - 10 Points to Educational Excellence" November 2005