As we wrap up this unusual school year and try to adjust to a summer with more freedom than the last, it’s a good time to think about setting expectations with your children for device use over the summer.
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Category: Innovation
Chat perlipopette ! Fourth Graders Learn the Art of the Novel
One of the roles of librarians is to encourage reading and to promote exchanges around literature. But this year, to allow for social distancing, all of our libraries serve a dual purpose as classrooms. This makes it exceptionally difficult to find a project that can be integrated into the school
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Let’s Talk: Creating an Engaging Classroom for All Students
For the 2020-21 school year, Cassandre Milard, a learning specialist in the Lycée’s Elementary School, has been given a research grant from the Lycée to help faculty and staff create more inclusive classroom environments. As part of her grant, she led a series of six optional training sessions called, “Let’s
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E-Sports Take Hold at the Lycée
In the face of Covid-19 and hybrid learning, afterschool activities at the Lycée Français de New York are being reinvented. Theater, chess, karate, visual arts, choir…the after school program offers online classes for every taste and age. In this context, James Charrel, Secondary Technology Integrator, leads a Minecraft club on
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Hindered Encounters: Finding Connections during Covid-19
We were all afraid. A virtual residency in writing was a first for the Lycée. In her preface to the e-book of student work from her residence, the author and artist-in-residence Valérie Zenatti recounted what she had imagined the residency to be: “At the beginning of this project, there was
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Neuroscience and the Future of Middle School at the Lycée
The Lycée restructured its Secondary School this fall, creating two distinct divisions with a clear developmental approach for each one. Our middle school (collège) now comprises sixth to eighth grade (6ème to 4ème in French). Ninth graders or 3èmes, who were previously considered part of collège, are now part of
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Celebrating a Centennial of Suffrage – Women Leading the Way
“Who was the first woman in your family to vote?” This is the question that Women Leading the Way, an art, history, and storytelling project, asked over 300 high school students from across America, challenging them to delve into the history of the fight for suffrage while connecting it to
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The Math Hatter Chronicle #14
In his latest installment, the Math Hatter stays current with a look at a formula for classroom arrangements in the era of social distancing, false positives in Covid-19 testing, and the late, great British mathematician John Conway. The unusually high number of calls received by the 1-800-MATHATTER hotline over the
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Exploring Links Between the French, American and Haitian Revolutions
In commemoration of the National Remembrance Day of Slave Trade, Slavery and Abolition in France, students in 11th-grade AP European History completed a series of projects to show the connections between the American, French and Haitian Revolutions. Dr. Arthur Plaza, who is helping to shape a new Y11 and Y12
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Screenagers, Trapped?!, and the Middle-School Years
Two weeks ago our sixth- and seventh-grade after-school theater performers gave us a tour of a middle schooler’s phone from the inside, with all of its potential cruelty and kindness. The performers in Trapped?! reminded us that the “screenage” years are full of opportunities for connection, and fraught with social
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