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French Faculty
Marie-Lise Spalvieri
Teacher: French Section A
Marie-Lise is from Lyon France and has an IUFM Teaching Certificate from the French National Ministry of Education and a License in Geography from Université Lyon 2. She speaks French, English, and Spanish and has been teaching since 1998. She taught grade 4 for six years and has been teaching 2- and 3-year-olds since 2004.
Shohreh Kalali
Teaching Assistant: French Section A
Shoreh Kalali is a native Farsi speaker from Iran. She speaks English, Farsi and French and has had four years of childcare experience. Mrs. Kalali started at ISA in 2008.
Karine Kingston
Teaching Assistant: French Section A.
Karine Kingston is a native French speaker from France. She speaks English and French and has had one year of childcare experience. She started at ISA in 2011.
Sophie Diagne
Teacher: French Section B
Sophie is from Orléans, France. She received her training at the Institut de formation des Maîtres (Livry Gargan, France) and at the Université d’Orléans (Modern Literature Bachelor degree). She speaks French, Wolof (a Senegalese language), and English and has taught children ages 3-6 years old. She began teaching at École Maternelle les Joncherolles, Saint-Denis, France in 2008. Last year, she taught french at École Internationale Les Lutins in Bamako, Mali.
Nadine Merwin
Teaching Assistant: French Section B
Nadine Merwin is a native French speaker from France. She speaks English and French and has had eighteen years of childcare experience. Mrs. Merwin started at ISA in 2009.
Celine Durmus
Teacher: French Pre-K
Celine is from Nantes, France and has a License in Psychology and a License in Educational Sciences from Université of Paris. She speaks French and English and began teaching in France in 1996 and has taught children ages 2-11.
Joelle Legare
Teaching Assistant: French Pre-K
Joelle Murphy is a native French speaker from Canada. She speaks English and French and has had three years of childcare experience. Mrs. Murphy started at ISA in 2009.
Nathalie Berthelot
Teacher: French Kindergarten
Nathalie is from Dijon, France and completed her training at University of Aix-en-Provence with degrees in linguistics and French as a second language. She speaks French, Spanish, and English. After receiving her teaching certification, she taught in various locations including La Réunion (a French island next to Madagascar), Caracas, Venezuela, and Portland, Oregon. Nathalie has taught maternelle (preschool), and grades 1, 2, 4, and 5.
Gaiane Hochard
Teaching Assistant: French Kindergarten
Gaiane Hochard is a native French speaker from France. She speaks English and French and has had five years of childcare experience. She started at ISA in 2011.
Alexis Bussiere
Teacher: French 1st Grade
Alexis is from Saint-Georges-d’Aurac, France and has a Bachelor of Arts in History, University of Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France and an Associate Degree in Human and Social Sciences, University of Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France. He speaks French and English and has taught grades 1-4th grades since 2000. Prior to that time he worked as a summer camp counselor with children between the ages of 5-18.
Catherine Thillier
French Department Chair
Teacher: French 2nd Grade
Mrs. Thillier leads the ISA French track teaching staff. She has twelve years of teaching experience and five years of experience in administration and management of school activities. She joined the ISA team in 2008 when her husband was transferred to work in the Phoenix area. She has a BA in education from the University of Chartres, France and is a certified primary teacher through the French Ministry of National Education. Ms Thillier was a primary school principal prior to coming to ISA. She has taught kindergarten, first, second, third, fourth and fifth grades. She has focused strongly on teaching in multilevel class groupings, especially in first and second grades. She is raising her two children to be trilingual.
Aurelie Boudier
Teacher: French 3rd Grade
Aurelie is from LaRochelle, France and has a Bachelors of Science in Biology, Poitiers University, France. She speaks French and English and has taught both preschool and elementary (3rd - 5th grades) as well as children with learning disabilities.
Magali Auvray
Teacher: French 4th and 5th Grades
Is from Normandy, France and has recived her training at the Institut Universitaire de Formation des Maîtres, completed teaching certification in French Guiana, and earned her T.E.F.L. certification in Mexico. She speaks French, English, and Spanish. Magali taught three years in French Guiana where she completed her teaching certification. She also went back to France for a short while and taught teenagers. Magali has taught in Mexico, Vietnam, Spain, and Portland, Oregon.
Viviane Rosevear
After-School Care Assistant
Viviane Rosevear is a native French speaker from France. She speaks English and French and has had ten years of childcare experience. Mrs. Rosevear started at ISA in 2004
