Elizabeth C. Ely,
is founder and director of The Field School in Washington, D.C. Ms. Ely began her career in education in 1951 at Narrows High School in Narrows, Va., as a math and science teacher. From 1957 to 1959, she was teacher of English as a second language in Aix-en-Provence, France. In 1960, Ms. Ely was a mathematics and science teacher at the Kingsbury Center for Remedial Education in Washington, D.C., where she remained for eight years. In addition to teaching at Kingsbury, Ms. Ely taught math and reading at the Hawthorne School in Washington, D.C. In 1968, she co-founded The Edmund Burke School in Washington, D.C., and later became the director of studies, a position she held for four years. In 1972, she assumed her current position. Ms. Ely holds a BA degree in education and psychology from Duke University in Durham, N.C.