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  • Three Elementary school students sit at a table and read a French children's book
    October 5, 2024 Vannina Boussouf, Assistant Head of School-Director of Primary

    The Key to Balanced Bilingualism

    In a country where the main language is different from the one taught in school, it’s important to make sure there’s enough exposure to the second language, and that it’s high quality.

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  • A group 9 students link arms for a photo on the first day of school
    December 9, 2023 Vannina Boussouf, Assistant Head of School-Director of Primary

    Cultivating Empathy and Kindness from an Early Age

    The goal of education should go beyond lessons on the fundamentals of reading, writing and math. Schools play a key role in shaping students into empathetic members of society who seek to make a positive difference in the lives of others

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  • Mother and son walk up a staircase of a school to head to a classroom.
    September 9, 2023 Vannina Boussouf, Assistant Head of School-Director of Primary

    Guide for a Fulfilling School Year – Part 2

    The academic development of a child depends on a number of factors. Here are three strategies to foster a love of learning from a child’s earliest years.

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  • August 26, 2023 Vannina Boussouf, Assistant Head of School-Director of Primary

    Guide to a Fulfilling School Year – Part 1

    As the school year begins, this article focuses on the power of nurturing positive relationships at school to support student learning, growth and development.

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  • Fourth grade students at a table rebuilding one of Leonardo Da Vinci's inventions.
    June 3, 2023 Vannina Boussouf, Assistant Head of School-Director of Primary

    Da Vinci Inspires a Fascinating Cross-Curricular Project

    Three elementary teachers tapped the inventions of Da Vinci in a yearlong project connecting engineering, design, science, math, music and history.

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  • Cover Photo AI and the Blockchain
    March 4, 2023 James Charrel

    Teaching AI and the Blockchain with Refik Anadol

    Refik Anadol’s art at MoMA serves as an educational tool to teach students about artificial intelligence (AI), its applications, and the concept of the blockchain. 

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  • Hervé Coeur and Natu Camara singing in Voix Francophones
    February 21, 2023 Pascale Richard, Director of Cultural Events

    Concert of Francophone Voices

    New York-based Haitian singer Hervé Coeur takes the stage with Natu Camara, Guinean singer and percussionist, in this celebration of Francophone music on Monday, March 20th at 6:15pm.

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  • June 11, 2022 Carolyn O'Brien

    Teaching Hard History with Intention and Care

    For fifth-grade students, the history of sugar provides a seamless narrative that connects France and America and the history of slavery across the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.

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March 21, 2019 Bilingualism / Equity and Inclusion

Arabic Language Classes Will Be Offered in the Fall

The Lycée’s World Languages Department is thrilled to announce that starting this fall, we will be offering Arabic as a second language—alongside Spanish, German, Chinese and Italian. Arabic is a language of amazing cultural and strategic importance. It is one of the UN’s six official languages, with 350 million speakers

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March 12, 2019 Co-Curricular Activities / Primary / Well-Being

Cross-Grade Collaboration Benefits Students of All Ages

At the Lycée Français de New York, we are lucky to have fourteen grade levels (soon-to-be Nursery to Y12) contained in one school. Our students range from age three to age eighteen. They come in so small, with bright eyes and awareness mainly focused on themselves and their family, and

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March 12, 2019 Featured / Global Citizenship / Secondary

Place aux Maths: Why Math Matters

The Lycée math curriculum is bilingual. How does this benefit students? Bilingualism and biculturalism are two of our biggest assets, as math educators. On the one hand, the French math tradition is very strong, and even world-renowned. It is well-designed to lay groundwork for understanding theoretical concepts, pure math, and

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March 8, 2019 Cultural Center / Featured / Green Initiatives

Jeffrey Sachs, Indefatigable Steward of Our Planet

The history of the Cultural Center of the Lycée Français de New York has been marked by some unforgettable conferences. Many diverse examples come to mind: the physicist Etienne Klein, economists Esther Duflo and Joseph E. Stiglitz, filmmaker Raoul Peck, and even the writer Gaël Faye. And, this past February

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March 3, 2019 Community / Equity and Inclusion

Lycée Honors Hamdi Ulukaya at 2019 Gala

On February 9th, Lycée parents, donors and guests gathered at the Skylight on Vesey, in view of New York City’s Statue of Liberty, for our annual gala. This year’s theme was “La Vie Devant Soi : The Journey is Everything,” and our keynote speaker was the entrepreneur and philanthropist Hamdi

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February 27, 2019 Equity and Inclusion / Secondary

10th-Grade Students Elect Five Women Writers to the Panthéon

In the same spirit as the Suffragettes project of Mireille Miller, our primary art teacher—which focuses on women who fought for their right to vote—the Lycée’s French department seeks to pay tribute to women writers and Francophone artists from history, and make them more visible. 10th-grade students thus launched themselves

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February 24, 2019 Community / Cultural Center

Rough Cut Film Festival: Shortlist Announced!

This year’s Oscars will be taking place on February 24, but the Oscars are small potatoes compared to the Lycée’s very own annual film festival, Rough Cut. This Thursday, February 28 at 4:30pm in the auditorium, you are invited to join us as we screen this year’s finalists. Films representing the

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February 8, 2019 Community / Project-Based Learning

Racines and Microhistory

Can a collection of individual stories tell us as much about society, as a sweeping retrospective written by a historian or a journalist? Rachelle Friedman and Nathalie Roussel, Secondary teachers at the Lycée, would argue, yes, and they ventured to explore this idea in their parcours for seventh graders this

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January 31, 2019 Community / Digital Learning

Behind the Scenes in the Broadcast Room

Lights, camera, action! Whether it is your first time to walk through the doors of the Lycée’s broadcast media lab, or your hundredth, the thrill of a busy newsroom never gets old. Downstairs in the York Wing basement, the Lycée’s media lab is equipped with a wall-to-wall green screen, microphones,

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January 25, 2019 Co-Curricular Activities / Cultural Center

Q&A with Première Scène Founders: Nathalie Roussel and Frédéric Yvelin

The Lycée’s Première Scène – French Theater Festival was launched 20 years ago this February 1st and has become an annual event for thespians at French Lycées in the U.S. and Canada, and even France, as well as for students of French at New York City-area public and private schools.

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