A few weeks ago, I wrote about the enigma I had shared with one of our secondary students, the so-called “Case of the Missing Euro”. I mentioned it not so much because I love puzzles, which I do, but because I wanted to highlight this young man’s admirable perseverance in
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It dawned on me the other day, and not for the first time I happily admit, that I must on occasion sound like quite the broken record! In the course of just a few weeks, when talking with one member of our community, I was surprised to hear my interlocutor
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Most conversations this week have begun with questions about the October vacation, to the delight of our students, who seem to appreciate talking about their deserved break almost as much as they enjoyed taking advantage of it. When asked what I did while classes were out, my own answer has
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“Have you heard about 3-6-9-12?” asked my former colleague. “No,” I answered. “It’s a book that’s just been published,” he continued, “and which a lot of people in France have been discussing because it makes strong recommendations about how to manage our children’s interactions with the many screens in their lives.
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Living in the city, especially one the size of New York, can sometimes be a challenge. The density of population, movement and sounds in Paris, not to mention Mumbai, Beijing or Rio de Janeiro, makes for a different kind of existence from what one would find in nature, to say
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Earlier this week, one of our secondary school students astonished me by recalling a riddle I had put to him almost two years ago. “Did you know, sir?” he asked me, “that I can still remember you telling us about the case of the missing Euro. And I am still
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On Secondary Sports Day 2013, Sean Lynch shares his observations. “Competing to win is important, but what matters too is motivation, setting goals for ourselves, doing whatever we can to achieve them, and then placing the bar even higher the next time around,” he writes. 7:45AM, Friday, September 20. Some
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“How is everything? How have these first weeks been? How have you been liking the Lycée Français de New York?” My fellow educators and I have been asking these questions to countless new primary and secondary school students over the last several days. Based on past experience, we are hopeful
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This week, one of our parents kindly sent me an audiolink which I might otherwise have missed amid the ebullience of welcoming students back to school. The report, broadcast on the “Morning Edition” of National Public Radio (NPR) last Monday, after having first been aired in November 2012, was entitled,
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It seems like only yesterday that our wonderful students left for the summer vacation, their faces beaming after a year of learning at the Lycée Français de New York. Yet several weeks have since transpired and an extraordinary amount of personal growth will have shaped them over the past two
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