Evelyne Estey was awarded the insignia of Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur by M. Philippe Etienne, Ambassador of France in the United States, at the Lycée Français de New York on Monday, March 15.
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The Lycée’s Science Department is guiding students in ninth to twelfth grade through a “Convention Lycéenne pour le Climat,” a high-school wide project designed to help them engage in issues of climate change and work towards a more sustainable future.
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For the 2020-21 school year, Cassandre Milard, a learning specialist in the Lycée’s Elementary School, has been given a research grant from the Lycée to help faculty and staff create more inclusive classroom environments. As part of her grant, she led a series of six optional training sessions called, “Let’s
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In the face of Covid-19 and hybrid learning, afterschool activities at the Lycée Français de New York are being reinvented. Theater, chess, karate, visual arts, choir…the after school program offers online classes for every taste and age. In this context, James Charrel, Secondary Technology Integrator, leads a Minecraft club on
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Ritual offers two gifts: unlocking smaller, easily attainable joys, and fostering a healthy climate of prevention in this period of Covid-19. As we had to simplify and let go of many of our habitual patterns around the holidays, for some it may have felt as strong as a shift in
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We were all afraid. A virtual residency in writing was a first for the Lycée. In her preface to the e-book of student work from her residence, the author and artist-in-residence Valérie Zenatti recounted what she had imagined the residency to be: “At the beginning of this project, there was
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Actively engaged in student equity and inclusion activities at the Lycée since 2018, Portia Morrell, computer science teacher in the Secondary, saw a need to build stronger links between her work with students and deepening DEI efforts among our faculty and staff, and also parents. For the 2020-21 school year
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In late October, our community came together, albeit virtually, to support the fourth annual Lycée Cares food drive for City Harvest, New York City’s largest food rescue organization. Our partnership with City Harvest began four years ago, when an enthusiastic group of Lycée students, faculty, staff and parent volunteers came
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Acclaimed author Abdourahman Waberi was invited by the Lycée Français de New York’s Cultural Center on November 6th to participate virtually in a conversation with the French Department about Francophone literature. Abdourahman Waberi is Assistant Professor of Francophone Literature and Cinema, and French Literature at George Washington University in Washington DC.
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The Lycée restructured its Secondary School this fall, creating two distinct divisions with a clear developmental approach for each one. Our middle school (collège) now comprises sixth to eighth grade (6ème to 4ème in French). Ninth graders or 3èmes, who were previously considered part of collège, are now part of
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