The first time I heard Cecile McLorin Salvant was on February 24, 2013 , at the Apollo Theater. I had bought a ticket at the last minute for an evening called the “Apollo Club Harlem,” an original production on this legendary place created in 1934 in West Harlem. With Dee
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This past Tuesday morning, we celebrated the life of Nelson Mandela by observing a minute of silence in all of our classes from CE2* through Terminale, just as leaders from around the world gathered in Johannesburg to attend the official memorial service for this extraordinary human being, universally considered to
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On December 5, 6, and 7, eleven members of the LFNY Diversity Committee created last year at the school had the tremendous privilege of taking part in the 26th Annual People of Color Conference of the National Association of Independent Schools in National Harbor in Maryland. The National Association of
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Le 6 décembre dernier, les lycéens de seconde et de première S ont assisté à une présentation d’Ibrahim Cissé, un scientifique Nigérien travaillant au Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Son intervention nous a fait comprendre à quel point la physique est fondamentalement liée à la biologie. Ibrahim Cissé au LFNY, le
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LFNY: You left the Lycée in 1977. Can you share with us some of the highlights of what you have been doing since then and what you are doing now as a career? Philippe LaCrosse: After leaving the Lycée, I came back to Paris for Terminale. I then moved to
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Vendredi : Victor et ses camarades en CP apprennent des éléments de code grâce à l’application Kodable sur iPad. L’objectif est de mener un petit animal vers la sortie du labyrinthe en avalant toutes les pièces. Il faut lui indiquer des directions et anticiper son parcours sur l’écran. Jeudi :
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Many will know the celebrated words of French philosopher René Descartes, “je pense, donc je suis”. I am borrowing them because they convey the critical importance of reflection in life. Yet I am also taking the liberty of changing the pronouns employed, out of a deep conviction that the best
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La classe inversée, ou flipped classroom, a fait son apparition au LFNY à la rentrée 2013. Initiée par deux professeurs d’histoire-géographie de terminale OIB, la classe inversée renverse le modèle du cours traditionnel. L’élève écoute et étudie le cours chez lui le soir, au moyen de vidéos ou autres supports,
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Children are some of the most active consumers of interactive media, especially through the increased use of mobile devices. However, despite the influx in consumption by children, schools rarely focus on providing students with the opportunity to produce technology. In fact, only 1 out of 10 schools offers computer programming
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Vendredi: Le physiciste-biologiste Ibrahim Cissé était au LFNY pour parler aux élèves de Seconde de ses trois pistes de recherche qui touchent à l’organisation de la matière, à l’évolution de la chaine ADN et aux perturbations possibles dans l’élaboration des protéines. Jeudi : le professeur de mathématiques, Christophe Michot, a
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