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The classroom taught me everything.
Now I teach it back.

14 years in real classrooms. 9 years training other educators. One belief: great teaching is a craft, and crafts can be taught.

Why learn from me

I'm Élise — a teacher trainer, course designer, and unapologetic believer that every classroom can be a place of genuine wonder.

I started teaching at 23 in a small school outside Lyon. I was terrified, under-prepared, and convinced I’d been hired by mistake. What saved me wasn’t a method — it was the kindness of one veteran teacher who let me copy her lesson plans and ask stupid questions.

Fourteen years later, I had taught every age from 7 to 17, opened a literacy programme in three rural schools, and finally understood what that kind teacher had really given me: permission to design teaching slowly, on purpose.

In 2017 I started training other educators full-time. Today, more than 24,000 teachers in 62 countries have taken a course or workshop with me. I still think of every one of them as that 23-year-old, terrified and hoping someone hands her a plan.

What I believe

Four ideas that shape everything I make.

THE LONG VERSION

A teaching life, in chapters.

2010
First classroom

Year 4 in a small school near Lyon. Survived. Barely.

2014
Head of literacy

Designed a whole-school reading programme that's still in use today.

2017
Trained my first teachers

30 educators, one Saturday, a borrowed room. Felt like coming home.

2020
Launched online courses

Pandemic forced the shift. Reached 4,000 teachers in 12 months.

2023
Published 'The Confident Classroom'

Became a bestseller in 3 countries. Translated into 6 languages.

Today
Still learning

Currently writing my second book and running 6 live cohorts a year.

24,000+

Educators trained

62

Countries reached

12

Industry awards

2

Published books