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Marcella Green earned her bachelor's degree from East Texas State University in Commerce in 1977, and her next stop was Princeton ISD, where she began her career in education, which has spanned the last 48 years (and counting).

Beginning with that first year at Princeton Elementary (now Lacy), Mrs. Green continued teaching in the very same building until 2024, when Green Elementary opened its doors.

She loaded up 47 years of classroom supplies and memories and moved across town to serve as the campus dyslexia therapist in the building dedicated in her honor, with an added bonus of being co-workers with her youngest daughter, Keegan.

According to Green Elementary's first principal, Lashon Gales, Mrs. Green has a talent for sharing her years of wisdom with those around her.

“She makes Green a special place and is Momma Green to so many here,” Ms. Gales said. “We are so glad she is here to leave a legacy for future generations.”

Her former students understand first-hand the legacy Mrs. Green has established.

“When I started teaching and coaching, Mrs. Green was the first co-worker to give me a hug welcoming me back to Princeton ISD. For a teacher to remember a student who was one of more than a thousand over the course of half a century, you know she is special,” said Colt Collins, who was in Mrs. Green’s 2nd-grade class at Lacy in 2005. “Mrs. Green is the kind of teacher that students will always remember."

Mrs. Green said she began teaching because of the impact her 1st-grade teacher had on her, but oddly, 1st grade is the one grade she’s never taught at the elementary level.

Now, when she drives across Princeton ISD on her way to work, she sees all the names on the schools and knows those historic PISD namesakes as her former principals, superintendents and co-workers, including George Clark, Dorothy Lowe, Janice James, Mary Mayfield and Nellie Canup.

“I’m so full of memories,” said Mrs. Green, who equates going to work at a school with going to Disney World. “Every year that I teach, there are favorite memories or memories that have touched my life.”