This week, one of our parents kindly sent me an audiolink which I might otherwise have missed amid the ebullience of welcoming students back to school. The report, broadcast on the “Morning Edition” of National Public Radio (NPR) last Monday, after having first been aired in November 2012, was entitled,
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It seems like only yesterday that our wonderful students left for the summer vacation, their faces beaming after a year of learning at the Lycée Français de New York. Yet several weeks have since transpired and an extraordinary amount of personal growth will have shaped them over the past two
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Last Tuesday afternoon, some 400 members of our community came together to celebrate the High School Graduation of our 92 Terminale students, the Class of 2013. And what a memorable occasion it was, not just because such moments are by their very nature moving, but because the wonderful ceremony we
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Please forgive me if you have already heard me refer to the concept of “growth mindset,” a notion we owe to the renowned Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck, whose book, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, is one of the most thought-provoking texts about human psychology to have been published in a
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Have you ever heard the joke about the two friends, one an engineer and the other a philosopher, talking one day over lunch? The engineer was presenting a design for a new machine he had just invented, demonstrating with one example after another how his creation would revolutionize the world.
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The seats in the auditorium were empty. It must have been around 8:30 pm, the evening before opening night. All 17 members of the cast were on stage, some cross-legged on the floor, others sitting on chairs, each attentive to the performance notes being given. Charlotte and Emmett, the two
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The LFNY Rugby Boys Varsity team won against the French American School of New York (FASNY) on May, 8 2013. From a distance, I thought I was glimpsing a scene from the Six Nations Championship, the world’s oldest and most enthralling rugby tournament. As I approached the field on Roosevelt
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Never does a day go by at the Lycée Français when we who have the privilege of working here do not learn something extraordinary from our students. In my own case, that learning happens more often in the context of stairwell, hallway and lunchroom conversations than it does in the
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Yesterday, it felt like spring at the Lycée Français, and not just because the sun finally won out over the clouds, the rain and the wind for the first time in months. As you might imagine, we have our wonderful students to thank for this change in seasons, for it
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One of the most frequently discussed topics in education today is what US educators and educational policy-makers call “STEM”, an acronym which stands for “Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics”. And while the definition of STEM varies from one person to the next, most would agree that this term suggests at
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