Lycée Magazine

Week in Pictures January 6-12

Friday: French comedian Philippe Aufort works with 7th Graders on a play for the French Theater Festival that will take place later this month. Thursday: Cécile McLorin Salvant being interviewed by Jenna Bush Hager for “The Today Show” on NBC in the auditorium of the LFNY. The famous jazz singer

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January 3, 2014 Featured / Project-Based Learning / Service Learning

Learning with an impact

The New York Common Pantry in Manhattan. This November, the class of 5e2, under the guidance of advisors Ms. Jan and Mrs. Kurzweil, did a service learning project around the school’s annual Thanksgiving Food Drive. We did everything from sorting the food, to using a formula to calculate how much

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December 20, 2013 Cultural Center / Featured

Un Grammy sinon rien !

The first time I heard Cecile McLorin Salvant was on February 24, 2013 , at the Apollo Theater. I had bought a ticket at the last minute for an evening called the “Apollo Club Harlem,” an original production on this legendary place created in 1934 in West Harlem. With Dee

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December 14, 2013 Featured / Head of School

Madiba

This past Tuesday morning, we celebrated the life of Nelson Mandela by observing a minute of silence in all of our classes from CE2* through Terminale, just as leaders from around the world gathered in Johannesburg to attend the official memorial service for this extraordinary human being, universally considered to

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December 13, 2013 Community / Featured

How do we look at race?

On December 5, 6, and 7, eleven members of the LFNY Diversity Committee created last year at the school had the tremendous privilege of taking part in the 26th Annual People of Color Conference of the National Association of Independent Schools in National Harbor in Maryland. The National Association of

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December 13, 2013 Secondary

La physique au centre de la biologie

Le 6 décembre dernier, les lycéens de seconde et de première S ont assisté à une présentation d’Ibrahim Cissé, un scientifique Nigérien travaillant au Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Son intervention nous a fait comprendre à quel point la physique est fondamentalement liée à la biologie. Ibrahim Cissé au LFNY, le

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December 12, 2013 Alumni / Featured

A life that comes full circle

LFNY: You left the Lycée in 1977. Can you share with us some of the highlights of what you have been doing since then and what you are doing now as a career? Philippe LaCrosse: After leaving the Lycée, I came back to Paris for Terminale. I then moved to

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December 11, 2013 Featured / Week in Pictures

Week in Pictures December 9 to 15

Vendredi : Victor et ses camarades en CP apprennent des éléments de code grâce à l’application Kodable sur iPad. L’objectif est de mener un petit animal vers la sortie du labyrinthe en avalant toutes les pièces. Il faut lui indiquer des directions et anticiper son parcours sur l’écran. Jeudi :

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December 8, 2013 Featured / Head of School

Nous pensons, donc nous sommes!

Many will know the celebrated words of French philosopher René Descartes, “je pense, donc je suis”. I am borrowing them because they convey the critical importance of reflection in life. Yet I am also taking the liberty of changing the pronouns employed, out of a deep conviction that the best

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December 6, 2013 Digital Learning / Featured / Innovation / Secondary

La classe inversée, une révolution pédagogique

La classe inversée, ou flipped classroom, a fait son apparition au LFNY à la rentrée 2013. Initiée par deux professeurs d’histoire-géographie de terminale OIB, la classe inversée renverse le modèle du cours traditionnel. L’élève écoute et étudie le cours chez lui le soir, au moyen de vidéos ou autres supports,

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Week in Pictures January 6-12

Learning with an impact

Un Grammy sinon rien !

Madiba

How do we look at race?

La physique au centre de la biologie

A life that comes full circle

Week in Pictures December 9 to 15

Nous pensons, donc nous sommes!

La classe inversée, une révolution pédagogique