 In the early 1970s, she became a founding member of the Mouvement pour la Psycho-Pédagogie Institutionelle (movement for institutional psycho-pedagogy) along with Francoise Dolto, the famous French psychoanalyst.She then accepted a teaching position at the (the French national school for schoolteachers) where she was able to influence generations of teachers with new innovative learning methods.She kept her position at the Ecole Normale from 1972 to 1988.