In a school like ours, where something extraordinary is always happening, finding the time to reflect on the beauty, dare I say the exquisiteness of what our students are achieving is not necessarily easy, which reminds me of a story I once heard about the great violinist, Joshua Bell. Out
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It was recently my pleasure to attend an address by the legendary Sir Ken Robinson, someone Fast Company magazine calls “one of the world’s elite thinkers on creativity and innovation” and whose TED Talk on schools is the most-viewed video in the history of these celebrated presentations. With equal measures
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Outside of school, there was considerable unrest this past weekend, with demonstrations taking place at Battery Park, JFK International Airport and other areas around New York. The atmosphere inside the LFNY last Friday and Saturday was no less turbulent, though in a different way. Young voices could be heard everywhere,
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If like me you laugh(ed), but somewhat quizzically, upon first hearing the following joke, you may want to read further. What did the hippocampus say in its retirement speech? Thanks a lot for the memories! Get it? Most of us would probably chuckle at this humor, though perhaps more by
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But doing so is not just an intellectual undertaking. At its best, acquiring a new language is a highly emotional experience, inasmuch as it answers a deep human desire to understand our fellow human beings better and of course provides us with the means by which we do accede to
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My job as a chronicler of the special life our students lead at the Lycée Français de New York has been both unusually complicated and unusually simple this week; complicated because the list of inspirational happenings from which I might draw for this weekly blog is longer than ever, but
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If you were in New York City this past summer, you may have had the privilege of seeing a memorable exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art entitled Manus x Machine: Fashion in the Age of Technology. This show was unusually captivating because it gave the assembled thousands who visited it
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A key priority for the Lycée Français de New York has long been what educators call “place-based education,” meaning learning that extends far beyond the literal and figurative walls of any given classroom and embraces the immediate surroundings in which a school finds itself. “Place-based education,” affirms the Center for
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After a break like the one our students have just enjoyed, something like the following exchange will often take place. “How was vacation?” I will ask. “Great,” will hopefully come the answer, on which I will build with a lighthearted plea for detail: “How about a story? Just one story, [name],
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Ladies and gentlemen, we have a unique kind of student on campus about whom you will be hearing a great deal more in the future, as we intensify our efforts to provide her with everything she needs to accomplish her work. Who exactly? A person some would call a “citizen
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