The Week in Pictures

Jeudi: Les dix élèves de troisième en voyage d’échange en Chine ont passé la journée à Suzhou, une ville à proximité de Shanghai. Pour Clément, le fait le plus marquant de son voyage jusqu’ici est “le degré et l’étendue de l’urbanisation de Shanghai, qui est une ville bien plus grande

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Earth Matters!

Last Monday, a fellow parent and I had one of those brief, thought-provoking conversations which often punctuate the early-morning drop-off period at the Lycée Français. For this father, and I could not agree more, a demanding challenge of raising children in an urban setting like New York City is exposing

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Langue(s) d’ailleurs

One of my many delightful roles as Head of School involves introducing our students to people who do not yet know them. Such was the case last year when we were fortunate to receive a visit from the French writer Daniel Pennac. I was lucky to share a short breakfast

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La plasticité du cerveau est fascinante

Quels seront les thèmes abordés lors de la table ronde sur le cerveau bilingue? Trois thèmes principaux sur le cerveau bilingue seront développés. Tout d’abord, , au cours duquel nous nous intéresserons au développement du cerveau et ce que cela implique pour l’âge d’acquisition d’une langue ou de plusieurs langues. Nous

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Le bilinguisme à la loupe

When you are French living in New York, when you raise your children at the Lycée Français de New York, you make the choice of bilingualism, sometimes without fully understanding what it might mean for them. At the Lycée Français de New York, our children adopt a bilingualism all their

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Frames of Mind

Following a recent visit to the school robotics club, I have been thinking a lot about the concept of invention, particularly in the realm of technology. And whenever I have had a chance, I have been asking students questions like, “how do you think someone came up with the idea

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