
CE Academy’s Mission and Leadership
The mission of CE Academy is to create an English-Chinese learning community for students of all backgrounds to maximize bilingual proficiency, academic excellence, and cultural diversity awareness to help them succeed in an era of globalization.
CE Academy aims to provide K-2 students (with expanding grades later) immersive Chinese and English bilingual education to children from all racial/ethnic backgrounds and socioeconomic backgrounds in our community. The school will prepare students to grow into global citizens with academic excellence, proficiency in Mandarin Chinese and English, and intercultural communication competence.
Learn more about our board members and faculty below:
CE Academy Board

Heli Chu
Heli Chu (Board Chairwoman) is a computer science and management background. Since 1996, she has taught Chinese in the United States. She has worked as a teacher, director and principal at two Chinese schools. As board chairwoman, she has led CE Academy through the successful application and certification process to found the first bilingual immersion charter school in the Triangle area.

Feng Lian
Feng Lian (board member) has a Master’s degree in Education. She has been involved in teaching and education for over 10 years. She successfully operated an educational institution. She has been working with preschool and after school students recently.
Our Marketing People

Bryce Roberts
Bryce Roberts is our director of marketing.

Thor Duryea
Thor Duryea is our marketing person.

Amy Yuan
Amy Yuan is enthusiastic about immersion education and has full experience of building up an immersion program from K-5 from scratch. She is a qualified immersion teacher training lecturer, and has worked 5+ years as a K-2 grade Mandarin Chinese immersion teacher.
School Board Meeting Minutes:
- 09/12/20 School Board Meeting Minutes
- 08/08/20 School Board Meeting Minutes
- 07/18/20 School Board Meeting Minutes
- 06/20/20 School Board Meeting Minutes
- 05/09/20 School Board Meeting Minutes
- 04/11/20 School Board Meeting Minutes
- 03/14/20 School Board Meeting Minutes
- 02/08/20 School Board Meeting Minutes
- 01/18/20 School Board Meeting Minutes