The Faculty

Professional, Dedicated, and Internationally Diverse Faculty

To enhance Acadecap’s international character, the faculty is made up of teachers from different parts of the world.

Acadecap teachers have diverse educational backgrounds and teaching experience. Espousing the PYP approach to learning and to teaching is really what brings them together. With the PYP approach, the teachers, specialists and students, truly work as a team.

In addition to the classroom teachers, Acadecap engages specialists in Visual Arts, Music, Athletics and Information Technology to ensure that students receive the highest quality instruction in these fields.

Lucie Lalonde – Acadecap’s Founder and Director

Academie de la Capitale was founded in 1998 by Lucie Lalonde, a teacher with more than 25 years of experience in both public and private educational settings.

Ms. Lalonde holds a Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics applied to Second Language teaching, a Bachelor of Education (with primary and junior qualifications) and a Masters degree in Education, specializing in Second Language teaching, from the University of Ottawa.

She qualified for her Ontario Teaching Certificate in 1980 and taught for 16 years as an elementary French immersion teacher in the Ottawa-Carleton Board of education prior to founding Académie de la Capitale.