K and G1 Teacher
Mme Lepannetier was born in Vendôme (France), a city rich in art and history, located close to the Loire castles. She obtained her teaching certification CRPE (Recruitment Competition of Professor of Schools) at the University Paris Sorbonne after a first Master’s degree in Management Sciences and a second in Humanities and Social Sciences. She has a lot of teaching experience, ranging from kindergarten to 5th grade in the Academy of Paris.
What especially stayed with her is the diversity of Parisian schools requiring continuous adaptability, a perpetual search for effective teaching tools, and a successful collaboration between parents and teachers.
Mme Lepannetier is passionate about French, foreign and children’s literature. Among her favorite authors are Charles Perrault, The Brothers Grimm, and Hans Christian Andersen. Exposing children to stories from around the world facilitates the awakening necessary for learning to read and write.
She also likes to develop artistic sense in young people through the works of Pablo Picasso, Robert Delaunay and Henri Matisse; a necessary step before reading and writing start.
Curious and attracted to foreign travel and languages, she is happy to be part of the EFAC and Lincoln team. She has lived in Chicago with her husband and two daughters since September 2017.
G2 and G3 Teacher
Contact: hanane.tadlaoui@efachicago.org
G4 and G5 Teacher
Contact: jonathan.alfonso@efachicago.org
Middle School French and History-Geography Teacher
Contact: robin.pardillos@efachicago.org
High School French Literature, DELF and IB Teacher
M. Iliev was born in Sofia, Bulgaria. He received his master’s degree in French language and literature at the Bourguiba Institute of Modern Languages (now Higher Institute of Languages of Tunis) in 1995 and an MA in Teaching of writing at the Institute of Education and Continuing Studies (University of Tunis co-supervised by the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud). His doctoral thesis focuses on the teaching of text and image pragmatic purpose. André Iliev started his career in 1997 as an Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Labour and Social Studies (University of Carthage) and the Higher Institute of Documentation (Manouba University) where he taught literature, grammar, language and techniques of expression. He joined the team EFAC in 2007. André Iliev is passionate about drama, radio and journalism. At the EFAC, he runs a film club and a radio.
Contact: andre.iliev@efachicago.org
