Lycée Magazine

Let’s Talk: Creating an Engaging Classroom for All Students

For the 2020-21 school year, Cassandre Milard, a learning specialist in the Lycée’s Elementary School, has been given a research grant from the Lycée to help faculty and staff create more inclusive classroom environments. As part of her grant, she led a series of six optional training sessions called, “Let’s

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January 11, 2021 Co-Curricular Activities / Innovation

E-Sports Take Hold at the Lycée

In the face of Covid-19 and hybrid learning, afterschool activities at the Lycée Français de New York are being reinvented. Theater, chess, karate, visual arts, choir…the after school program offers online classes for every taste and age. In this context, James Charrel, Secondary Technology Integrator, leads a Minecraft club on

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January 8, 2021 Well-Being

The Protective Power of Ritual

Ritual offers two gifts: unlocking smaller, easily attainable joys, and fostering a healthy climate of prevention in this period of Covid-19. As we had to simplify and let go of many of our habitual patterns around the holidays, for some it may have felt as strong as a shift in

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January 2, 2021 Artist in Residence / Arts / Bilingualism / Cultural Center / Innovation

Hindered Encounters: Finding Connections during Covid-19

We were all afraid. A virtual residency in writing was a first for the Lycée. In her preface to the e-book of student work from her residence, the author and artist-in-residence Valérie Zenatti recounted what she had imagined the residency to be: “At the beginning of this project, there was

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November 28, 2020 Community / Equity and Inclusion / Global Citizenship

Going Deeper to Develop a True Intercultural Mindset

Actively engaged in student equity and inclusion activities at the Lycée since 2018, Portia Morrell, computer science teacher in the Secondary, saw a need to build stronger links between her work with students and deepening DEI efforts among our faculty and staff, and also parents. For the 2020-21 school year

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November 14, 2020 Community

Lycée Community Unites to Support City Harvest

In late October, our community came together, albeit virtually, to support the fourth annual Lycée Cares food drive for City Harvest, New York City’s largest food rescue organization. Our partnership with City Harvest began four years ago, when an enthusiastic group of Lycée students, faculty, staff and parent volunteers came

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November 13, 2020 Cultural Center / Equity and Inclusion / Global Citizenship

Diving into Francophone Literature with Abdourahman Waberi

Acclaimed author Abdourahman Waberi was invited by the Lycée Français de New York’s Cultural Center on November 6th to participate virtually in a conversation with the French Department about Francophone literature. Abdourahman Waberi is Assistant Professor of Francophone Literature and Cinema, and French Literature at George Washington University in Washington DC.

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November 7, 2020 Innovation / Well-Being

Neuroscience and the Future of Middle School at the Lycée

The Lycée restructured its Secondary School this fall, creating two distinct divisions with a clear developmental approach for each one. Our middle school (collège) now comprises sixth to eighth grade (6ème to 4ème in French). Ninth graders or 3èmes, who were previously considered part of collège, are now part of

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October 31, 2020 Equity and Inclusion / Global Citizenship

Working on Equity – Student DEI Workshops

Early in the morning on October 2nd, eight collège students logged into Zoom for a session entitled “Understanding Black Culture”. Led by Terminale students Raheem and Moussa, they discussed food, clothing, rap, jazz, and iconic TV shows. Then a photo of Kim Kardashian in fulani braids popped up on the

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October 24, 2020 Community / Global Citizenship

Lycée Joins National Tributes to Samuel Paty

In a letter to the Lycée community on October 18, Evelyne Estey, the Lycée’s head of school, paid tribute to Samuel Paty, the French history-geography teacher who was killed outside his school, and teachers everywhere. Mr. Paty had been guiding his students in a discussion of freedom of expression around

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LYCÉE MAGAZINE

Cultivating Empathy and Kindness from an Early Age

Guide for a Fulfilling School Year – Part 2

Guide to a Fulfilling School Year – Part 1

Da Vinci Inspires a Fascinating Cross-Curricular Project

Teaching AI and the Blockchain with Refik Anadol

Concert of Francophone Voices

Teaching Hard History with Intention and Care

Imagining with Author Marc Lévy

Let’s Talk: Creating an Engaging Classroom for All Students

E-Sports Take Hold at the Lycée

The Protective Power of Ritual

Hindered Encounters: Finding Connections during Covid-19

Going Deeper to Develop a True Intercultural Mindset

Lycée Community Unites to Support City Harvest

Diving into Francophone Literature with Abdourahman Waberi

Neuroscience and the Future of Middle School at the Lycée

Working on Equity – Student DEI Workshops

Lycée Joins National Tributes to Samuel Paty