Jacqui Kandell

Jacqui Kandell is a passionate veteran educator who started her career teaching High School English and ESL in San Francisco and has, since 2000, been happily teaching French, mostly at Jane Lathrop Stanford (JLS) Middle School in Palo Alto. She has served on a variety of school and district committees, has been a student council adviser, and is currently on the School Site Council at JLS, is the school’s World Language Department Chair, and is on the American Association of Teachers of French Task Force on Standards for the Learning of French to update the National French Standards. 

An immigrant herself, Jacqui feels a special affinity for families who have to make their way in a new country. She is particularly interested in issues of equity, having grown up in South Africa during the apartheid era. Jacqui was a first-generation college student at the University of California at Santa Barbara and the Université Paul Valéry in France.