Chong-Hao Fu

Chong-Hao Fu is a career educator and former school leader who believes in the power of great teaching to help all young people access fair opportunity and achieve greatly. He has served as the CEO of Leading Educators since 2018. Since joining Leading Educators 12 years ago as Chief Program Officer, Chong-Hao has led groundbreaking efforts to maximize the influence of our nation’s educators and accelerate instructional growth for students at the margins in some of the fastest-improving school systems in the country. He is a nationally recognized thought leader on teacher leadership and professional learning, equitable instructional practice, teacher diversity and pathways, and sustainable systems change. Chong-Hao is actively engaged in efforts to shape the future of teaching and learning as the co-chair of the Research Partnership for Professional Learning and in advisory capacities at ASU Next Education Workforce, the Coalition to Reimagine the Teaching Role, and the Broad Center at Yale SOM. He also serves on the board of directors for the New Teacher Center and is a Pahara Institute Fellow. Before his time at Leading Educators, Chong-Hao was the founding principal at KIPP Sharpstown in Houston, Texas. He began his teaching career as a middle and high school math teacher in Greenville, Mississippi. In 2016, Chong-Hao was a finalist for the Teach for America Peter Jennings Award for Civic Leadership. He holds a B.A. from Yale University.