At Celerity, we firmly believe that all students can grow and thrive when experienced teachers bring engaging curriculum, challenging learning activities, and high expectations to the classroom.
The Celerity Educational Group is a non-profit organization, that serves Los Angeles-area schools, children and families. Our mission is to provide quality education in under-served communities by creating alternative schools that focus on the potential of every child.
Our first school opened September 2005 in the Jefferson Park Community. The Celerity schools have joined with community leaders to issue a change for the youth in the communities we serve. Celerity Dyad Charter School and Celerity Troika Charter School were opened in September 2007 to better serve our mission of creating quality and equality in education across greater Los Angeles.
We welcome you to our site and invite you to learn more about the people and the vision behind the Celerity Educational Group.
Board of Directors
Myrtle Franklin, Board Member
Ms. Franklin holds Master of Arts Degrees in Education Administration and Special Education and has more than three decades of experience in the public school system. As a school administrator and secondary teacher, Ms. Franklin has worked with students and teachers at the elementary and secondary level.
Zenaida Jordan, Board Member
Ms. Jordan has more than two decades of experience in the public school system. As a school administrator and elementary teacher, Ms. Jordan has worked with students, teachers and communities to improve student achievement at the grass roots level.
Vielka McFarlane, Executive Director, President, Founder & CEO
Ms. McFarlane holds a Master of Arts Degree in Education Administration In addition to a Multiple Subject Teaching Credential. She has taught children of all ages as a classom. Her experience in the Los Angeles Unified School District ranged from classroom teacher to school administrator and District level administrator. She founded Celerity Educational Group with the primary goal of providing a high quality, standards and research-based instructional program focused on students achieving a status of proficiency.
Dr. Winnie Tan, Board Member
Prior to assuming her position at CEG, Dr. Tan was a faculty member at the University of Southern California . Dr. Tan has displayed consistently her compassion for the development of children through her work at Children's Hospital with disabled children. As the chief partner of a thriving practice on the border of East Los Angeles , Dr. Tan brings a healthy combination of business acumen and compassion to the Board of Directors' table.
Curt Hessler, Board Member
Mr. Hessler is an attorney and former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy; Executive Director of President Carter's Economic Policy Group; and Assocaite Director of the President's Office of Management and Budget. In additon he has over two decades experience at the CEO/Board-level leadership in the media and IT industries and is a Professor at the UCLA School of Law with extensive experienc in finance, strategic development, and law.
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