Charlene (Char) Schade

About:

Charlene Schade, also known as "Char", is a graduate of UCLA with a credential in K-14 Physical Education.  She began her career as an educator teaching dance and physical education for Los Angeles City Schools. After a motherhood sabbatical, she became the director and instructor of the YMCA Kindergym program in La Jolla.

She was a consultant for 4 years on the California Governor’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. Char appeared on an award winning KFMB-TV program “Dance Your Ages Off” and received an Excellence in Programming Award from American Alliance for Health, Physical Education and Dance (AAHPERD). Most recently she received the Live Well San Diego Public Health Champion Award. Char was also a San Diego Senior Follies Showgirl.  And she was certified as an Arthritis Foundation Exercise Program Trainer for 15 years. Presently, she assists in the Aging and Independence Services (AIS) Feeling Fit trainings.

Char who has been with the District since 1976, “walks her talk” with keeping balance in her life. In addition to teaching several Online classes each week, managing duties virtually as an Emeritus Assistant Program Chair, serving on San Diego College of Continuing Education committees, and attending district Zoom meetings of the San Diego Community College District, she creates time each week, when Covid-19 restrictions allow, for ballroom dancing, being with family and friends, as well as directing and dancing, with the Prime Time Steppers, a senior dance troupe.