Nathalie Walsh has been teaching for the last 26 years, most of them in the Surrey School District where she taught in the French Immersion and Core French programs, but also in England and France.

Being passionate about languages and cultures, Nathalie first completed a bachelor’s degree in teaching French at secondary level at Université Laval, then a post-bac diploma in Second Language Teaching, and a Master of Arts, Curriculum and Instruction, at SFU’s Faculty of Education.  Her research focused on collaborative learning in the context of plurilingual approaches. 

Nathalie has always strongly believed in pursuing professional development while exercising leadership and contributing to the teaching community in various ways: she accompanied teachers as a mentor in her district and for SFU’s graduate studies program;  she was a BCTF facilitator, leading workshops for French immersion teachers; she developed and taught week-long programs for Core French teachers as part of SFU’s Bootcamp Francofun; she presented at various provincial, national and international conferences; she worked as a Faculty Associate at SFU where she was able to share her experience and passions with cohorts of future French teachers; finally, she had the privilege to collaborate with coordinators and support teachers across the province in her coordinator role with SFU’s Office of the Francophone and Francophile Affairs (OFFA).  Now back in the classroom, Nathalie is happy to continue this collaboration through her engagement with BCLCA.