People

Dr. Ellen Knell has been a teacher and teacher-trainer for many years and has worked in both EFL and Chinese language education. She lived in Asia for more than ten years and has conducted teacher-training workshops all over the world. Recently, Dr. Knell served as the Chinese immersion coordinator in Utah where she developed curriculum for Chinese immersion students. Now she serves as the BYU Chinese Flagship secondary supervisor for the F-LAN grant. She develops curriculum, conducts training seminars, and oversees assessment and research for secondary students.

• Ms. Emmy Luo  - East High School
• Mrs. Lan-Jy Duke – Syracuse Middle School
• Mr. Aaron Andersen – Lehi High School
• Mrs. Jennifer Mangleson – Summit Academy Middle School
• Mrs. Dori Huang – Hillcrest High School and Midvale Middle School
• Mrs. Karma Lambert – Indian Hills Middle School
• Mr. Eric Chipman – University of Utah Confucius Institute
• Mrs. Stacy Lyons – Renaissance Academy

Fannie Tam is Assistant Director of the Confucius Institute at Arizona State University. Through ASU’s Confucius Institute, Fannie oversees the partnership with Arizona’s public schools to establish eight Confucius Classrooms and to support Chinese language and culture learning for Arizona K-12 students. Prior to joining Arizona State University, Fannie was a management consultant in intercultural communication and negotiations, and was a faculty of the University of Phoenix’s MBA Program.  She currently serves on the Arizona Department of Education’s Chinese Initiative Advisory Group and is an advisor to the Contemporary Chinese School of Arizona.

Wenjing (Grace ) Xie is a Curriculum Specialist at Arizona state University’s Confucius Institute (CI) . Upon receiving  a master degree from University of Sydney, her teaching career began in 2005. Now, as a curriculum specialist at Confucius Institute, she oversees the curriculum development of eight Confucius Classrooms, works with teachers to develop effective assessment, provides workshops for teachers of Chinese, and constructs resource networks for K-12 teachers. 

• Ms. Jin Zhang and Ms. Jingjing Zhou, for their assistance in collecting resources for teacher use
• Ms. Adrianna DeFranco, for her valuable technical support on this project  
• We are grateful to the Chinese teachers who provided important information, feedback, and assistance in the development of the website. They are:
• Ms. Jingsheng Yang from Mesa Academy School 
• Ms. Alice Fan from Rhodes Junior High School and Summit Academy; 
• Ms. Ping Lu from BASIS Chandler School
• Ms. Lu Hsiu-Lien Kuo from Hamilton High School.