Haiyan Fu has a Master's Degree in education from Smith College, and an Ed. D. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, specializing in second language acquisition, instructional leadership and curriculum development. She is certified in Chinese, English, ESL, Language Arts and Bilingual Education in the State Of Illinois. Fu has been teaching Chinese to speakers of other languages at postsecondary institutions since 1982 and teaching high school for the last eight years. She is currently teaching all levels of Mandarin Chinese at Northside College Preparatory High School in Chicago. In 2003, she was selected to appear in the Annenburg Foundation production "Teaching Foreign Languages K-12: Putting the Standards to Practice". Fu is a trainer in the U.S. Department of Education's Teacher-to-Teacher Training Corp; a writer for Chicago Public Schools' Project MAJIC, a U.S. Department of Education-funded effort to develop K-12 curricula for Chinese and Japanese; an AP Chinese te