Christine Shen is an Education Lecturer and the Director of the UCLA Community Schools, a campus-wide initiative managed by the School of Education and Information Studies to work within the Los Angeles Unified School District context and honoring all collective bargaining agreements for its teachers and school staff to co-create innovative sites of learning at Horace Mann UCLA Community School and the UCLA Community School. Her expertise in system-level instructional and organizational leadership with local, county, and state Departments of Education has resulted in large-scale school transformation in Los Angeles, including opening the first charter middle school and serving as a founding member of the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools, the largest, in-district public school transformation organization in the United States that manages a network of LAUSD schools in Boyle Heights, South LA, and Watts.
