ABOUT u00c9LISE

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.

MY STORY

From terrified first-year teacher to trainer of 24,000 educators.

I’m u00c9lise u2014 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 u2014 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.

WHAT I BELIEVE

Four ideas that shape everything I make.

Teaching is design, not performance.

The best teachers I know spend more time designing than presenting. We rebuild that habit.

Warmth is a teaching strategy.

Children remember how a classroom felt long after they forget what it taught them.

Beautiful tools change behaviour.

A well-made planner gets used. An ugly one collects dust. Craft matters.

Slow learning beats clever tricks.

I'd rather give you one framework you'll use for a decade than ten you'll forget by Friday.

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 still in use today.

2017

Trained my first teachers

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

2020

Launched online courses

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

2023

Published 'The Confident Classroom'

Bestseller in 3 countries. Translated into 6 languages.

Today

Still learning

Writing my second book and running 6 live cohorts a year.

24,000+

Educators trained

62

Countries reached

12

Industry awards

2

Published books

WHY LEARN WITH ME

What makes the work feel different.

Practitioner first

Every framework I teach was built in my own classroom before it became a course.

Designed, not winged

Each course is engineered like a unit plan: clear objectives, scaffolded practice, real assessment.

Small cohorts, real feedback

Live cohorts are capped so you actually get heard, seen, and coached.

STUDENT VOICES

Educators who changed how they teach.

u00c9lise's course completely rewired how I plan my week. I feel like a designer, not a survivor.

Marion L.

Primary teacher, France

I have used the same lesson framework she taught me for three years. It still works.

David O.

Secondary teacher, UK

We put 40 teachers through her programme. Observed practice changed inside one term.

Aisha R.

Head of school, Kenya

OFF THE CLOCK

Slow coffee, long walks, and other small religions.

When I’m not teaching, I’m probably re-reading a Le Guin novel, baking something complicated, or walking the same forest path with my old border collie, Pu00e9pin.

I make my own planners by hand, send a Sunday letter to 18,000 educators, and believe nothing important was ever built in a hurry.

READY WHEN YOU ARE

Let's design the next chapter of your teaching life.

Join thousands of educators already learning with me. Start with a free resource or jump into a full course.