Author: Veronica Mcgivney Park, Assistant Director of Preschool

After receiving her bachelor’s degree in childhood education, Veronica McGivney Park taught in primary schools in Costa Rica, Japan, and her hometown, St. Louis, Missouri. She came to New York to attend Columbia University’s Teachers College and earned a master’s degree in international educational development. She also earned a master of science in educational leadership from Hunter College, CUNY, in 2017. Veronica joined the Lycée in September 2005 as an elementary English teacher. Before leading the maternelle team, she was the chair of the English department, where she worked to integrate and harmonize best practices in American and French education. When she is not thinking about bilingual education, she enjoys spending time with her two daughters and husband in Brooklyn.

Cross-Grade Collaboration Benefits Students of All Ages

At the Lycée Français de New York, we are lucky to have fourteen grade levels (soon-to-be Nursery to Y12) contained in one school. Our students range from age three to age eighteen. They come in so small, with bright eyes and awareness mainly focused on themselves and their family, and

The Art of Storytelling

Jeffrey Kluger took questions from students about his presentation “The Art of Storytelling”. On Friday, January 17th, 2014, an author named Jeffrey Kluger came to our school. He came to tell the CM2 students about storytelling. He is an editor for TIME magazine and a parent. He is also a