Outside of school, there was considerable unrest this past weekend, with demonstrations taking place at Battery Park, JFK International Airport and other areas around New York. The atmosphere inside the LFNY last Friday and Saturday was no less turbulent, though in a different way. Young voices could be heard everywhere,
Read More!
In this extraordinary city called New York, education is a matter of the utmost importance to families. Moreover, an ever-growing number of those seeking to provide a world-class educational experience to their children are focused on bilingualism. Yet who can be surprised? After all, study after study has demonstrated the myriad
Read More!
Ask our students what word comes to mind when they hear the name Gad, as I have done these past few days, and what one hears is simple. Mais c’est impossible, monsieur. A single word could never capture his gift for making you fall out of your chair with laughter,
Read More!
A former colleague and lifelong principal whom I hold in the highest esteem often used to say, and in so doing make her students, parents and fellow educators laugh, that middle school is a special period in the educational trajectory of any child because he or she is as cute
Read More!
We are careful at the LFNY not to allow digital devices to displace, let alone replace human interaction. Yet access to the internet can be a great support for intelligent conversation, as I experienced laptop in hand a few mornings ago in our 75th Street Lobby. My purpose: to ask
Read More!
Among memorable openings to books, it would be hard to find one more moving than the following: “I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday.” Many will recognize these words as belonging to Malala Yousafzai, written at the start
Read More!
Following the announcement of our new strategic plan last January, students, faculty and families have been VERY excited about the makerspace we will soon be building for our primary and secondary schools. Those familiar with the concept of “making”, often because they have visited the “makerfaire” that takes place at
Read More!
It was early morning. The sky billowed with snow, which fell like a whisper and packed itself like the wool of a loom being tightened. And as the sky scrapers of Manhattan gave way to the wooded hills of the Catskills, the words of American poet Mary Oliver came to
Read More!
Each year, the Cultural Center of the Lycée Français de New York is proud to organize three “21st Century Citizenship Panel Discussions.” These evening events are intended for Lycee Francais de New York students and other members of the school community, but are also open to the public at large. After
Read More!
One would be hard-pressed to find a place more full of cajoling than the entrance to the Lycée Français de New York this past Wednesday morning, particularly on the primary side of campus. Student after student had but one feeling to express: dissatisfaction, good-natured dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction nonetheless! No matter
Read More!