Earlier this week, one of our secondary school students astonished me by recalling a riddle I had put to him almost two years ago. “Did you know, sir?” he asked me, “that I can still remember you telling us about the case of the missing Euro. And I am still
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On Secondary Sports Day 2013, Sean Lynch shares his observations. “Competing to win is important, but what matters too is motivation, setting goals for ourselves, doing whatever we can to achieve them, and then placing the bar even higher the next time around,” he writes. 7:45AM, Friday, September 20. Some
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“How is everything? How have these first weeks been? How have you been liking the Lycée Français de New York?” My fellow educators and I have been asking these questions to countless new primary and secondary school students over the last several days. Based on past experience, we are hopeful
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“Our mission is to lend an ear to the Lycée’s 900 families and to make sure that information gets shared with the administration and vice versa,” explains Cheryl, whose two daughters, now in eighth grade and twelfth grade, have been at the Lycée since 2002. Participation in LFNY life is
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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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Sc3 was organized by the Green Schools Alliance, a global network of schools representing two million students pledging to make their communities greener. It brought together 107 high school students from all over the country for a week at the National Conservation Training Center of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife
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How did you get started? In Primary School this year, we were introduced to the Ambassadeurs en Herbe competition. Two of our members, Melanie and Tiwani, were jurors for the selection of the fifth-grade team. The rest of us tried out for the team. We all had to answer one
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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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