Understand. Question. Create.
We answer the questions you ask — and the ones you haven’t thought to ask yet.
An education and innovation consultant, Mélanie helps organizations move from early thinking to practical execution. Depending on the project, she advises, facilitates, designs, develops, or helps teams build the capability to carry the work forward.
Principal Consultant · Facilitator · Learning Designer
What MelCo brings to your project
From the first question to the finished solution.
MelCo can step in at one critical point or stay with a project from beginning to end — clarifying the need, shaping the approach, building capability, creating the content, and safeguarding quality.
Consulting and strategy
Clarify the need, give an initiative direction, and connect the instructional, technological, and organizational dimensions of the work.
- Needs analysis
- Learning strategy
- Project planning
- Strategic AI integration
Training and professional learning
Design and facilitate professional learning that reflects the realities, goals, and experience of the people in the room.
- Workshops
- Training sessions
- Conference presentations
- Professional guidance
Learning resources, self-paced learning, and multimedia
Turn objectives, curricula, and subject-matter expertise into clear, well-structured, engaging learning experiences.
- Educator guides
- Training modules and videos
- Self-paced learning
- Online courses
Websites and resource hubs
Create educational, informational, or professional websites where structure, content, resources, and navigation work together.
- Content architecture
- Writing and plain language
- User experience
- Multimedia integration
Review and quality assurance
Review training, resources, programs, or digital solutions to strengthen coherence, progression, accessibility, and instructional value.
- Instructional and editorial review
- Curriculum alignment
- Quality assurance
- External review
Selected work
What the work looks like.
Websites, guides, articles, and professional learning — each project shows where the work began, what I brought to it, and what it made possible.
Histoire et injustice
Help educators teach complex, sensitive histories without flattening their meaning or relying on shock.
Research, educational writing, content architecture, and the design of digital learning activities and resources.
A coherent, accessible website that supports rigorous, nuanced, and humane teaching.
Critical Thinking in Literacy
Turn a broad ambition — developing critical thinking — into classroom practice educators could actually use.
Research synthesis and the development of practical strategies, thinking routines, learning activities, and assessment guidance.
A 157-page guide that moves critical thinking from principle to everyday practice.
Digital Media Literacy
Bring clarity and structure to new, wide-ranging expectations around digital citizenship, media, and evaluating information.
A coherent framework of concepts, activities, support tools, and curriculum connections.
A Grades 1–8 reference that helps educators plan concrete, connected learning in digital media literacy.
Quad9 Magazine
Make a wide range of topics engaging for young readers without stripping away their substance.
Research, strong editorial angles, and clear, lively writing shaped for the audience.
Accessible, engaging features published across seven issues between 2024 and 2026.
The resources shown here remain the property of the organizations that publish them. They are included to identify Mélanie Courtemanche’s contribution to the work.
Custom professional learning
Built for the work at hand.
Each learning experience is shaped around the audience, the organization, and the work people need to do — in person, online, or on demand.
Complex challenges.Practical solutions, thoughtfully designed.
When MelCo can help
The first question is rarely the whole question.
Sometimes you arrive with a clear request. Sometimes the idea is still taking shape. My job is to understand what you are asking for — and to surface the connections, constraints, blind spots, and possibilities that may not be visible yet. That is how we get to the right response, not simply the first one.
Give direction to an initiative that is still taking shape
Make complex expertise clear, accessible, and useful
Develop or deliver training, resources, or a digital learning experience
Rethink content that no longer meets current needs
Strengthen the coherence and quality of a learning project
Connect learning, content, technology, and user experience
About
A consultant who knows education from the inside.
I taught my first lesson at eleven, in my mother’s classroom. I did not know then that education would become the thread running through my work.
Since then, teaching, leadership, facilitation, and design have given me a deep understanding of how learning happens — and of the conditions that help ideas and people go further. Today, I bring that experience wherever a challenge needs clarifying, expertise needs to become accessible, practices need to evolve, or an initiative needs to take shape.
Experience
From classroom practice to organizational strategy.
Each role has sharpened a different part of my practice: understanding what happens on the ground, connecting strategy to execution, and designing solutions that hold up in day-to-day use.
Founder and Principal Consultant
Learning resources and solutions, quality assurance, capability development, and strategic AI integration.
School Principal
Instructional and administrative leadership, team development, and change management.
Provincial Education Consultant
Training, resource development, and support for Ontario’s French-language school boards.
Teaching and Learning Support
Innovative practice, instructional intervention, and collaboration with teams and families.
Let’s talk
A challenge to clarify? Training to deliver? A resource to create? An idea to move forward?
A first conversation can help define the shape, scope, and possibilities of the work.