About Anping

THIRTY-FIVE YEARS OF SERVICE AND PASSION IN EDUCATION

        WORKING TOGETHER FOR
                            EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE!

Community Experience

• Founder and Instructor of “WE CARE: Whole Education for Whole Child” Parenting Program 
• Parent Representative of the Newton North School Council (2016-2017)
• President of the Chinese American Association of Newton (CAAN)
• Speaker and presenter on education policies, child development and parenting education topics at community schools, and conferences of all levels

My past community service experience include:

• Principal, founding board chair and community advisor of the Newton Chinese Language School (operating on weekends at F. Day Middle School)
• Parent representative and co-chair of Horace Mann Elementary School Council and Lincoln-Eliot Elementary School Council
• Community member of the Newton Public School Superintendent Search Committee
• Community member of the Newton Public School Strategic Planning team
• Parent volunteer of Understanding Our Differences Program at Horace Mann Elementary School
• Board member of teacher professional development organization of Primary Source: Educating Global Citizens

• Education columnist of Boston-based bilingual (English and Chinese) newspaper, Sampan Weekly

Professional Experience

• Twenty years as an educational specialist at Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, including positions as Teacher Licensure Review Panel Coordinator, Massachusetts English Assessment Proficiency Coordinator, Student Assessment Specialist, as well as a board member of the Service Employee International Union (SEIU), local 509
• Consulting work for the United Nation Development Program (UNDP), the United Nations Education, Science and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the Massachusetts State Secretary of Education Office’s Bilingual Education Commission, and the University of Massachusetts at Boston (UMass Boston) Fulbright Program for Chinese Studies  
• Long-term research work at Wheelock College’s Center for Family, Communities, Schools and Children’s Learning, involved in the long-term research for a federal grant supported project to study the educational success of minority students
• Two years as a rural school teacher and six years as a college faculty member at a comprehensive teacher training university in China

Publications

• Author of the book in Chinese "最好的教育在家庭" （Best Education Comes From Families), to be published in late 2017
• Co-author of the book in Chinese "第三只眼睛看教育" (The Alternative Perspective on Education) published in China, 2015
• Author of dozens of Chinese and English academic and media articles on schooling, child development and parenting education

Education
BA in English, Suzhou University, China
M. ED in Teaching English as a Second Language, Boston University
D. ED in Policy, Planning and Administration, Boston University