For many Lycée students and parents, the 2015-2016 school year is their first experience in a bilingual school. Choosing a bilingual school is a tremendous opportunity for monolingual families, but it also raises questions about how being in a bilingual school impacts language development in children. The most important element
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“Although thinking is innate, skillful thinking must be cultivated.” (Art Costa, 2008). Effective 21st century instruction teaches students how to think, not what to think. In 2013, The Huffington Post published an article arguing that many K-to-12 schools are not preparing students to be ready for the demands of today.
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Here we all are back at school, backpacks full of new notebooks, shiny books and good resolutions. After weathering the first days of adjustment, new teachers and a new schedule, some kids also return to… bad habits: arriving at school for a good day of work… but with an empty
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Language is at the heart of learning in primary school, and as the director of a French school abroad, I am often asked a fundamental question: what are the essential factors that support the solid development of both languages in bilingual children? Though it may seem obvious, one of the key
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In Ms. Gamble’s class, students studied famous US colonists and learned a lot about what life was like for men and also for women in those early years of American history. Her students created posters about early American colonists and were asked to present them to the class. Fourth-grader Alexander
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Lorsque nous avons rencontré Céline Barel par l’entremise de Veronica Bulgari, parent au Lycée et membre active du comité d’artistes en résidence, nous avons naturellement proposé à cette parfumeuse ou “nez” chez International Flavors & Fragrances, de travailler avec les Secondes. Le parfum n’est-il pas une affaire de « grands » ? Ne
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Pendant tout le mois de mai, les élèves de CM2 ont travaillé sur un projet de science qui a été présenté à l’occasion de la fête de printemps du 16 mai dernier. Cette année, le thème choisi par l’une de ces classes, la CM2E, était produire en France (cité écologique,
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On this Thursday morning in April the Primary library is noisy! Even our head librarian, Damien Renon, likes it that way. Students from CM2 C, MSA and their parents and teachers are gathered for a special celebration of books, surrealism and metamorphosis timed for the school’s annual book festival, La
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Rare is the person who does not love the comic strip “Calvin and Hobbes,” penned by cartoonist Bill Watterson, syndicated in the United States between 1985 and 1995, and the subject of more than 30 million books published over the last 30 years. This highly entertaining, mordant, insightful cartoon recounts the
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Curieuse d’apercevoir de temps à autres des abeilles à Manhattan, la jeune équipe de reporters de “C’est pas magique, c’est scientifique” a mené l’enquête pour découvrir le monde fascinant des abeilles et leur rôle primordial pour notre alimentation. Comme le dit si bien Paul, l’un des animateurs de l’émission: “Sans
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