Sessions
Conference Opening
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM Wed
Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds: A Wellness Approach
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM Wed
Community School Directors: Leading with Purpose and Passion
3:45 PM - 5:00 PM Thu
Sustainability Planning Overview
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM Fri
Taking Strategic Action
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Fri
Janice Chu-Zhu has been on staff at the National Center for Community Schools since 2001. As Senior Director of National Capacity Building, she works with clients interested in adapting and developing community schools in their own cities and districts. Her responsibilities include training, development and consultation on a variety of topics such as partnerships, program quality, parent involvement, organizational capacity, funding and sustainability. Janice’s work is documented in her chapter in Community Schools in Action: Lessons from a Decade of Practice. Before joining the Center, she worked in the National Office of the Girl Scouts of the USA initially as a Pluralism Strategies Consultant for their 319 affiliates and later as the Quality Recognition Manager, overseeing the annual award program for best practices. As a licensed social worker, Janice has worked in foster care and the Family Court PINS Program. She also worked as a private consultant for corporations on issues of managing diversity. Janice holds a master's degree in Social Work from Fordham University’s Graduate School of Social Service and a Bachelor of Arts in Social Psychology from the State University of New York at Binghamton.