Supporting Educators in the Empowerment of Students and Teachers
Tom Ledue
Tom is an educational consultant and school coach with over thirty years in school leadership and instruction. As a teacher, Tom continually created powerful opportunities for his students that built durable learning. As an Alternative School Director, Tom began and led a small school that effectively supported high-need learners from multiple sending schools. As a teacher-leader, Assistant Principal, and Principal, he was at the forefront of leading both a high school and an elementary school through strategic change to support dramatically improved student outcomes. Tom is passionate about education; he is always eager to work with teachers and school leaders to improve their craft.
Across Tom’s career, from being a young teacher and coach to being a veteran principal, he excelled at creating structures and processes to support critical leverage-point goals. Tom brings this skill set to the principals and teachers he works with. His extensive experience and professional toolbox empower him to quickly identify common ground and establish both trust and credibility to engage in the work of school improvement.
When not in school, with his partner Deneen, or with one of his four daughters, he is most likely to be found in a canoe on a river in Northern New England.
Deneen Bernier
Deneen provides administrative support for TLCS. She delivers a joyful, analytical lense for the back office details. As a former Recreation Therapist and later a Nature Connection & Wilderness Skills Educator, Deneen also manages her own business as an Intuitive Wellness Leader, guiding people and their families back to wholeness through her gifts and skills as an intuitive, guide, and mentor. She specializes in energywork with adults, children, and animals.
A life-long Mainer, Deneen grew up in southern Maine where she developed a strong connection to the natural world at a young age. On any given day, she can be found exploring the timeless secrets of plants and their medicine, tracking local wildlife, hiking / cross-country skiing new trails, or canoeing Maine’s wild rivers from the Allagash to the St. Croix. Deneen lives to be outside to fuel her soul and perpetuate her work, personally and professionally.