L'Etoile French Immersion School

Susan graduated with honors from the University of Puget Sound with a degree in French Language and Literature and spent 6 months studying in Dijon, France. She has a strong background working in customer service and administration, including 2.5 years as the office manager at the Alliance Française de Portland. In 2021 Susan joined L’Etoile and has since then been an integral part of the administrative team. In her free time, Susan enjoys fostering pups for a local animal rescue, planning her next trip to France, and biking around Portland.

Cody is a K12 music educator and multi-instrumentalist with a master’s in Music Education from Boston Conservatory at Berklee ’22. In nurturing students’ creative self-expression through music and movement, he likes to believe that students feel alive, engaged, and seen in his classroom. We move, listen, sing, play instruments, compose original songs, and explore complex musical concepts on a regular basis. He’s passionate about digital music and audio production as teaching tools for students to unlock their inner artist. He lives in SE PDX with his partner Lydia and their many percussion instruments.

A native of Sochaux, a small community in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France, Jerome has been working in French preschools in the Pacific Northwest since 2015. He joined the L’Etoile team in 2017, working both as an assistant and a classroom teacher during the summer and after-school programs. As a trained musician, Jerome loves to incorporate music into each school day through group songs, use of instruments, and individual expression.