On November 14, the Lycée Français de New York hosted a ceremony honoring 15 American veterans of World War 2 who were promoted to the French Legion of Honor for their service to France. The award has a prestigious history since its creation by Napoleon Bonaparte. Among its distinguished recipients
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Il suffit d’écouter les élèves pour évaluer le succès de la résidence de l’artiste Béatrice Coron qui a travaillé avec les Secondes réunis pendant pendant une semaine, du 31 octobre au 4 novembre dernier, dans le makerspace dans le cadre du programme AIR (Artiste en Résidence du LFNY). Issue de
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But doing so is not just an intellectual undertaking. At its best, acquiring a new language is a highly emotional experience, inasmuch as it answers a deep human desire to understand our fellow human beings better and of course provides us with the means by which we do accede to
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My job as a chronicler of the special life our students lead at the Lycée Français de New York has been both unusually complicated and unusually simple this week; complicated because the list of inspirational happenings from which I might draw for this weekly blog is longer than ever, but
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Whether pursuing studies in the US, France, the UK, Canada or other parts of Europe, students in the Class of 2016 chose with great care and achieved impressive results. I am cheered by these outcomes, and not only because there are some recognizable, international names on the list of their
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If you were in New York City this past summer, you may have had the privilege of seeing a memorable exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art entitled Manus x Machine: Fashion in the Age of Technology. This show was unusually captivating because it gave the assembled thousands who visited it
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You’ve surely noticed the environmental movement happening in NYC. Whether it’s in the news, fashion, food or technology industries, we keep hearing these two words: “going green.” They lead us to change the way we think about how our buildings are conceived and maintained. We start to ask ourselves: How much
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A key priority for the Lycée Français de New York has long been what educators call “place-based education,” meaning learning that extends far beyond the literal and figurative walls of any given classroom and embraces the immediate surroundings in which a school finds itself. “Place-based education,” affirms the Center for
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What is York Wing Community Day? The opening of the York Wing is a significant milestone in the history of the Lycée Français de New York, so it’s a day for the entire community to celebrate the school and our new spaces. It’s a time for children, parents, teachers, staff and
Read More!After a break like the one our students have just enjoyed, something like the following exchange will often take place. “How was vacation?” I will ask. “Great,” will hopefully come the answer, on which I will build with a lighthearted plea for detail: “How about a story? Just one story, [name],
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