Level Coordinators/Teachers
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Aurélie

Hélène
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Aurélie is the Petits Écoliers in person teacher as well as the PreK-K level coordinator. She has been involved in early childhood education for over 10 years, as a volunteer, assistant, and teacher. She holds an early childhood Montessori teaching certificate (3-6 years old).
Aurélie was born and grew up near Paris and moved to the Seattle area 15 years ago. She currently lives in Kirkland with her husband and their two children. Together, they enjoy exploring the beautiful Pacific Northwest and traveling back to Brittany and Italy to visit their family.
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My name is Hélène. I was born and raised in Montréal, Canada. I completed my Bachelor degree in Special Education with a specialty in Learning difficulties, and taught 18 years in First Grade. I have been living in this magnificent PNW region since 2004. I enjoy spending my free time with my husband, my two grown up boys, and my adorable dog. I have been with E.F.G.S. since January 2011. This school year, I will be teaching Les Écoliers 2 online, Les Grands-Écoliers 1 and Les Grands-Écoliers 2 in person. I am as well the Program Coordinator for the Elementary Level. I enjoy spending time with my family, watching movies, reading, camping, hicking, gardening, and exploring Washington and all it has to offer. Before concluding, I would like to share this beautiful quote from Maria Montessori "The joy of learning is as essential to intelligence as breathing to the runner". 

Muriel

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Muriel Vasseur has been a teacher at the EFGS association since 2015. She left her native country of France, and her region of Franche-Comté, to live a great adventure in the USA with her husband and to build a family there. Eager to find a Francophone association to meet other people speaking French, she had the opportunity to register her two children from a young age to EFGS school. Happy with this new conjunction, she made her debut at EFGS as a volunteer in the early grades. Passionate about this profession and dedicated, she invested a lot in her first 3 years of teaching in the early childhood classes. She then had the chance to teach the older ones in elementary school. An interactive level that she loves while willingly taking care of the little ones. Creative mind and attracted to visual art, she always has this desire to find new tools and ideas both visual and fun to allow the student to learn French while having fun. 
Her first objective is achieved if the child is happy to come and share good times in his class with his French-speaking friends. She frees herself in her house to do crafts and artistic creations, she loves to maintain her garden. Her children are now 13 and 14 years old, a good age to discover new places and new activities with the family. She will end with this beautiful quote from Norbert Kalfon « Teaching a language is proposing a trip, learning it is leaving » So let's go on a trip! ​

Caroline

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​From Mont Blanc to Mont Rainier there is only one step (or almost!) that I took in September 2018 with my husband and my youngest daughter.  Leaving my two older daughters, my large and tightly knit  family, the beautiful surroundings of Grenoble ( in the Alps) and the Middle School ‘s classroom  where I had been teaching for many years was a gamble! The bet was a success! The discovery of the Pacific Northwest is a great surprise and many aspects of life in this area delights me.
I am very excited to join EFGS ‘s Team as the teacher and coordinator of les Collégiens. I will guide with enthusiasm your children this year in their work and journey around the French language that I love so much.
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Teachers

Sarah

Camille
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Bonjour! My name is Sarah and I’m going to be teaching Les Petits Bouts in-person class this year. I graduated from La Sorbonne University in Paris in Fine Arts and Science of Arts, and I have worked with kids for over 15 years!  I arrived in Washington in 2015 and have been working at EFGS as an assistant since then! I am thrilled to this year be teaching that same class!
 I speak three languages; I like to draw, sketch, paint and  I love swimming and paddling. 
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Born and raised in France in a small town near Paris, I graduated in Law and Economics then worked in the telecommunications industry before changing things around by moving with my husband to the UK (2016) and to the USA in 2017. I now teach French as a foreign language (FLE) and Français LAngue Maternelle (FLAM). I enjoy rock climbing, hiking with my family, yoga, reading, and I never say no to a good book recommandation ! ​

Sophie

Ludivine
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I am Sophie and I am glad to work in EGFS one more year. I am French from Paris suburb and I have been in US for 6 years and in the Seattle area for 3 years. I am a Registered Nurse and I love teaching French to children. I have been teaching at EFGS for 3 years and I am starting my 4th year to the Écoliers 2.
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Ludivine was born in Normandy, a region of northern France. She completed a Master’s Degree in Business Administration in Paris. After a 15-year career in marketing in large Parisian real-estate and banking companies, she decided to change careers and become a teacher in order to promote the French language in her country of adoption. She has experience teaching both kids and adults and has been working with the E.F.G.S. team since 2018. This school year, she will be teaching Grands-Écoliers 2, Collégiens et Experts. Her hobbies include cooking, baking, and traveling as she explores the USA.

Assistants

Sarah

Nina
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Bonjour! My name is Sarah and teaching is a passion that has been passed on through generations in my family. My Grand-Mother was the schoolteacher in her village in the Alps. My mom taught French her whole life, and my father taught English. I grew up bilingual and cherishing the wonders of both languages while I was studying literature, humanities, and cinema. After a rich decade working as publicist in Paris, I moved to Seattle two years ago when I met my wonderful husband. In the beautiful PNW, I have been reconnecting with the great outdoors and my original passion: teaching. After tutoring a young 3rd grader who was homeschooled last year, I’m excited to be back at school and assisting Hélène with the « Grands Écoliers 1&2 »!
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Magda

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Hi there! My name is Nina and I’m an assistant for the Petits Bouts class this year! I am a high school student here in Seattle. Both of my parents are French and so French, along with English, are my first languages. I joined the EFGS team in October of 2020 as an online assistant in the Petits Bouts class and the Écoliers 1 class and I am excited to continue assisting in-person this year! My hobbies are piano, Ultimate Frisbee, and reading! ​
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Bonjour. I am Magda and I am helping Aurélie in Les Petits Écoliers in person class. I am interested in education and I have been involved in providing French language support to my two children. I started at EFGS last semester as an online assistant and I am happy to continue this year in person. Moreover, I moved with my family from France to California 6 years ago and we have recently moved to the Seattle area. I enjoy spending time at the beach, reading and savouring a nice cup of.... espresso.

Directors

Lisa

Aurélie
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I am very honored and pleased to be the new EFGS Program Director as well as the Lycéens teacher. I have been working at EFGS first as a volunteer then as a teacher for the past 5 years, while working fulltime at a private local school as a French, Spanish and Video Production teacher. I was born in Normandy, France, in a family of 3 children and bathed in a multicultural environment through my mother who is from Réunion island (French territory). I completed my Bachelor and my Master’s degree in Education and teaching, as well as achieving the “concours de l’Éducation Nationale” in France. I arrived in the US (in Seattle) in August 2016. I am now married to an American, and I have a 07-year-old stepdaughter.
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Aurelie is the Executive Director of EFGS, in charge of all the things that are not related to the academic part of the program :-)
She has been in the US for 12 years, and in Seattle for 4.  She was on the Board of Directors as the Treasurer until last year, when she took over the Finance/Admin Direction. Her 3 kids are at EFGS, 2 of whom Collégiens in the online program, and one in the in-person Grand Ecoliers class. She enjoys the Pacific Northwest very much being an avid hiker and backpacker.

Board of Directors

Alain  President                         

 Arnaud  Vice President                       
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​A mechanical engineer by trade, Alain Durand worked successively in the construction, automotive and aerospace industries. After in financial then general management positions. He is currently the CFO of TEAGUE, a leading design firm based in Seattle. Alain moved to Seattle in 2014 with his family. His wife Roshini volunteered at EFGS for several years. He has been on EFGS board since 2015, as the treasurer for 3 years, and as it s President since January 2019.
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Arnaud has an engineering background and worked for different major software companies as a sales engineer or as a partner manager. Arnaud is originally from France  where he spent his time between Paris and Brittany. His parents and twin brother still live in Brittany where he loves travelling there when travels are permitted. He moved to Seattle, WA in 2017 with his lovely wife Emmanuelle and two young kids, Maxence (10 yo) and Aurel (6yo).  Both kids speak French fluently and are enrolled at EFGS in Petite Section and Grand Ecolier.Arnaud values communication and acknowledges French language also as a vehicle of the French culture. He appreciates how EFGS allows his kids to also keep a strong connection with their French roots and hopes that this will help many other families to get exposed to it as well.

Céline  Treasurer                      

Ludovic  Secretary                   
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​Born in the USA from French parents, she grew up in Rouen, on the Seine river and would spend her summers in Brittany. At the end of her School of Engineering master program, she did a 6-month internship in Bellevue for a software company and fell in love with the region. 
She has now lived in the Puget Sound since 2003 with her husband Scott, Scott’s son, Noah, and their two daughters, Chloé and Léa.
Céline understands deeply the challenges of bilingualism raising the girls in a bilingual family and was thrilled to find the EFGS FLAM program for them to strengthen their connection to the French language and cultures, and to value their bilingual uniqueness and cultivate it. 
After volunteering regularly for the program, Céline got the opportunity to get involved in a more direct way and support the managing board by taking on the new role of Program Director in August 2016. She then transitioned to Assistant Director 2 years later when she moved to Bellingham. in 2021, after retiring from the position, she joined the EFGS board as she wished to continue to contribute to its mission.
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​Ludovic is originally from France and came to the United States in 2009 with his wife Sara, who is originally from Seattle. After living in New York City, they moved to San Francisco in 2010, and then to Seattle in 2013. They have 3 children, Alexandre, Margot and Elliot. Alexandre and Margot speak French fluently and are enrolled at EFGS. The youngest, Elliott, will do the same once he's old enough. Throughout his professional career, Ludovic has worked in team and project management to localize content for video game publishers. French education is an important value for his family so Ludovic is excited to contribute to expanding Francophone culture in Seattle.

Anne-Marie  Education Committee 

Sophie                   Co-Founder  
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Anne-Marie was born in Annecy and grew up in Le Puy-en Velay in France. She graduated from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Grenoble. She pursued her education in Paris (Paris-Sorbonne and Paris-Dauphine). For more than 10 years, she worked as a consultant In France.
Anne-Marie moved from France to Seattle in 2000 with her husband Alain. Her now, 3 grown-up daughters are all fluent in French. For the last 16 years, within various programs, she has been teaching French to children and adults. She joined EFGS in 2015 as a teacher, and then became the Program Director. She retired as such in 2021 and is now on EFGS Board of Directors overseeing  the Education committee.  She loves to share her passion for writing, reading and arts in general.
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Originally from France, Sophie moved to the US in 2000 and to Seattle in 2008 with her family. Not long after her arrival in the PNW, she worked with a small group of francophone parents to start a French afterschool program in the area. Their vision was to offer their children a place where they could get a quality French language education and build friendships within the community. This would become EFGS in 2009. As one of the founders, she served on the Board as its President until 2017 and stays actively involved on an Honorary basis.  While her background is in Business and Marketing, she is pursuing her interest in providing solutions to families facing the challenges of raising bilingual children  ​