Author: Sean Lynch

Sean Lynch was Head of School at the Lycée Français de New York from 2011 to 2018, after having spent 15 years at another French bilingual school outside of Paris: the Lycée International de St. Germain-en-Laye. Holding both French and American nationalities, educated in France (Sciences Po Paris) and the United States (Yale), and as the proud husband of a French-American spouse and father of two French-American daughters, Sean Lynch has spent his entire professional and personal life at the junction between the languages, cultures and educational systems of France and the United States. In addition to being passionate about education, he loves everything related to the mountains, particularly the Parc National du Mercantour.

Right-Brainers vs. Left-Brainers

“Whole new minds.” I have been thinking about these words for ages. They hold a great deal of meaning in English, the language in which they happen to have come to me. However, this phrase is difficult to translate into any other language I know, beginning with French. In English,

Bienvenue / Welcome back, LFNY community

“An instant of happiness is worth a thousand years of history” once penned the great French philosopher Voltaire and I could not agree more! It is with such a sense of delight that I am writing today, dear members of the Lycée Français de New York community, on the eve