Meet the team

Pascaline Depouhon

Founder, Team Director, Teacher

Passionate about education, Pascaline Depouhon discovered classical education in the United States during her degree in Political Science. After 5 years as an organizational consultant for Airbus Helicopters, she tried to find a new profession in the educational sector, led by a desire to create an independent school. During these years, she was trained as an educational coach and delved deeper into the Charlotte Mason approach, both theoretically and practically. She has experience teaching History and Geography at a private independent school for one year before deciding to homeschool her two eldest children. She is married, the mother of three children and has lived in Velaux since 2015.
Her motivation is to diversify the educational landscape, with particular attention to those children who suffer from school phobia or boredom.

Carmen Watson

Co-founder, teacher

Carmen Watson has been a teacher and school administrator for the past 20 years, including one year as a teaching assistant at a French high school, and 19 years in schools using classical pedagogy.
She earned her Bachelor's Degree in French and History from Rice University in Houston, Texas, and a Master of Education Degree in Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Leadership from Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, Georgia.
Throughout her years in education, she has taught French, facilitated exchange relationships between French and American students, and taken American students on trips to France to experience French culture.
Carmen is excited to work with École Victor et Salomé, sharing her knowledge of classical pedagogy with teachers and parents and fostering in French students a love for learning through active, engaging classical teaching methods.

Elise de Luca

Co-founder

Elise de Luca earned a Master’s Degree in Didactics of French as a Foreign Language at the University of Avignon, after earning her Bachelor’s Degree in French Culture and Language at the University of Leyde, in the Netherlands. She has a license in Theology, as well. She has taught History and Geography at a private independent school, than she made the decision to homeschool her children for a time. Elise is married and the mother of three children.

Summer Sanders

English Teacher, Teacher’s Assistant

Summer Sanders has enjoyed teaching throughout her life, especially children. As the eldest daughter of a high school English teacher, Summer inherited her mother’s love for reading, language, and the joy of teaching. Her teaching experience includes traditional, non-traditional, volunteer teaching and teaching children and adults of all ages.
Summer earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Public Affairs and Administration with a minor in Spanish from the University of Oklahoma. During her studies, she attended universities in Spain, and in China, and subsequently taught English for three years in Japan. After returning to the United States, Summer spent the next seven years working for international non-profit organizations. She was privileged to travel to many nations, meeting, interviewing and building bridges between people around the world.
In addition to teaching, Summer loves all things creative—especially art, baking, cooking, crafting and discovering the beauty and wonder of nature.