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School Management Team



Principal: Wu, Yong’an (吴永安)
Dr. Yongan Wu received his bachelor degree of English from the Sichuan Normal University. He completed his master’s and doctoral degree at the University of Oklahoma studying English Education. Dr. Wu is now teaching Chinese at the University of North Florida in the U.S. His research interests include second language acquisition and cross-cultural studies.

Vice Principal: Li, Yan (李焰)
Ms. Li graduated from Shanxi Normal University majoring in Chinese Literature. She came to the US in the year 1990, afterwards, she has been to Ireland. In all the places she lived, she has taught Chinese in the local elementary, Middle and high schools. Thus, she has ample Chinese teaching experience.

Provost: Zhen Qiang (甄强)
Dr. Qiang Zhen is an assistant professor who does research in applied
mathematics. He joined the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at
the University of North Florida in 2010, after
receiving a Ph.D. degree in Mathematics from the
University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Zhen earned his
bachelor's and master's degree in applied mathematics from Nankai University
in Tianjin, China.

Parents’ representative: Luo, Iris Ying (罗颖)
Born in Shanghai and grew up in Beijing, Iris obtained her bachelor's degree in chemistry from Beijing University before coming to the US. She has been working in the pharmaceutical industry in R&D, finance and licensing functions with increasing responsibilities over the past 10 years, during which she also acquired a master degree in Biochemistry and a MBA degree. Iris is currently providing consulting services to biotech companies in the areas of commercial assessment, financial valuation and business development

Marketing Director: Xu, Jing (徐晶)
Born in Shanghai, China, Dr. Jing (Jasper) Xu has been living in his hometown until finishing undergraduate study from Fudan University. He acquired his Ph.D in statistics from the University of Georgia in the year of 2009 and now is working as a biostatistician. He has been serving as well as leading the local Chinese community for 6 years before arriving at Jacksonville. He is passionate about life and believes in “The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.”

Assistant to Principal: Zhou, Yihan (周怡晗)

Zhou Yihan (Haze) is from Kunming, China. She graduated from Huazhong Normal University in Wuhan with a degree in English in 2006. She first started teaching at Delter Business College in Wuhan before graduating, where she taught university students as well as being the foreign teachers' coordinator for residency and traveling at Delter.

Her next teaching position began in March of 2008 at English First School in Wuhan, where she concentrated on students between the ages of 3 to 10 years old. She also taught teens and adults at lower English levels.

After marrying her clever and very handsome husband, Haze moved to Jacksonville in the fall of 2009. With over three years of experience teaching children English, Haze switched her focus to teaching Chinese as a second language when she began teaching at JCA School at the University of North Florida. She loves teaching children, focusing on basic vocabulary and sentence structure, as well as having fun!