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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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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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January 15, 2019 Linguistic Exchanges / Service Learning

Why We Did Not Instagram Our Service Learning Trip: Reflections on Vietnam

In 2013, Lycée students embarked on their first Service Learning trip to Vietnam. In partnership with Aide Dentaire Viet-Nâm (an NGO that brings dental care to underserved populations), a small retinue of ambassador students and teachers arrived at the front door of an orphanage in Da Nang. Together with the

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January 10, 2019 Alumni / College Counseling

College Applications: Tips from Recent Grads on Where and When to Apply

In preparation for the upcoming field trips to NYU, Marist and Vassar (for students who are thinking of applying to university), our College Counseling office recently invited five recent alumni to talk about their own experiences with the college admissions process. In the auditorium this past December, Lycée graduates from

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December 14, 2018 Bilingualism / Global Citizenship

Fostering a Love of Reading in Children

On Saturday, December 8, the Cultural Center of Lycée Français de New York invited our community, as well as educators and parents from across the city, for a daylong discussion on the future of reading, “La Lecture, Oui, but Why?“. The first panel included a lively discussion about inspiring children

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December 7, 2018 Bilingualism / Secondary

The Math Hatter Chronicle #12

Chances are you never bothered to ask your math teacher where the words “sine” and “cosine” came from or why we use that ridiculous symbol for the square root of a number. You probably accepted these new notations – to be added to the already long list of arcane words

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November 30, 2018 Bilingualism / Equity and Inclusion

More Diversity in Children’s Literature: Yes, but Why?

Children’s literature might sound like child’s play in comparison to literature for adults, but it’s not! The genre comes with questions and relationships that are at least as complex as books for grown-ups—if not more. Children’s literature must work to set itself apart from general reading culture and maintain autonomy.

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November 23, 2018 Community / Well-Being

Let’s Have a Healthy Relationship with Food

I had the pleasure to meet students from Y7 and Y11 during October’s nutrition cycle. We talked about healthy and balanced meals, the importance of eating breakfast and drinking water, and also: the link between food and pleasure. We analyzed food packaging and ingredients, and we talked about the omnipresence

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November 16, 2018 Community / Service Learning

Feeding Hungry New Yorkers

The Lycée Français de New York is excited to host the second annual Lycée Cares event next week. In partnership with City Harvest, the New York-area nonprofit dedicated to feeding New Yorkers in need, the whole school community will be coming together to collect food during a food drive the

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