About Green Hedges School
Learn about Green Hedges School and what makes us such a warm and nurturing environment for your child.
Learn about Green Hedges School and what makes us such a warm and nurturing environment for your child.
Visit and apply to Green Hedges to experience how Children here get the care, nurturing, personal attention, and guidance they need to thrive as learners and as young people. The foundation children gain here stays with them in high school and for the rest of their lives.
From the moment you step onto the Green Hedges campus, you will witness the strong sense of community that exists here. We provide children a safe, secure environment while maintaining a commitment to the charming, family-friendly community so often found in a neighborhood school.
Assistant Head of School Trish Dougherty names one of the Green Hedges Core Values, Become Yourself, as part of what drew her to this school, saying, “I value schools that cherish the individual child, where kids can be themselves and flourish, not in a cookie cutter way. I like to help all children shine and find their smart, and it doesn’t have to look the same for everybody.” Diversity, she says, includes race, religion, culture, economic situation, gender, family configuration, and neurodivergence, among other dimensions. “The more we deepen our diversity work, the more diverse our definition of diversity becomes,” she observes, adding that, done well, inclusiveness is not diluted by the many directions, but strengthened by respect, genuine appreciation, support, and commitment to recruitment and hiring.
A native of New Jersey, Ms. Dougherty spent her early years entranced by education, counting days until school would begin again and teaching other children on her parents’ back porch. After earning a B.S. in Business Administration at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, VA, and working in the advancement office of an independent school, Ms. Dougherty returned to her first love, the classroom, earning an M. Ed. In Elementary Education from Marymount University in Arlington, VA. She taught at St. Stephen’s & St. Agnes School in Alexandria, VA for over a dozen years and she spent seven years as Assistant Head, and then Head, of Lower School at the Walker School in Marietta, GA, where she helped found the New Avenues Dyslexia Program.
Ms. Dougherty is the mother of a Green Hedges Middle School student and of a college student in South Carolina. She enjoys crafts, and, as befits someone who does not believe in a cookie cutter philosophy, loves decorating cookies in unique and beautiful ways.
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GREEN HEDGES SCHOOL
415 Windover Avenue, N.W.
Vienna, Virginia 22180
Phone: (703) 938-8323
Email: [email protected]