What’s Next for the Lycée’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Efforts?
“True community is based upon equality, mutuality, and reciprocity. It affirms the richness of individual diversity as well as the common human ties that bind us together.” — Pauli Murray, Civil Rights...
View ArticleCollege Admissions in Zoom Times
When Covid-19 arrived last spring, could we have imagined how it would disrupt our lives so completely? While education writ large has been affected, the impact on students applying to college has...
View ArticleDemocracy at Work – Election Season in the Secondary School
Fostering student engagement, the Secondary School holds yearly elections for three forums – the Conseil Pédagogique d’Établissement (CPET), a school advisory committee of students, parents, teachers...
View ArticleCollege Matriculations: Looking Back, Looking Ahead
It’s fall. How do I know? I know because the pace of the College Counseling staff has quickened as college and university deadlines loom. Students are finalizing their lists, drafting and redrafting...
View ArticleLycée Joins National Tributes to Samuel Paty
In a letter to the Lycée community on October 18, Evelyne Estey, the Lycée’s head of school, paid tribute to Samuel Paty, the French history-geography teacher who was killed outside his school, and...
View ArticleWorking on Equity – Student DEI Workshops
Early in the morning on October 2nd, eight collège students logged into Zoom for a session entitled “Understanding Black Culture”. Led by Terminale students Raheem and Moussa, they discussed food,...
View ArticleNeuroscience and the Future of Middle School at the Lycée
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...
View ArticleDiving into Francophone Literature with Abdourahman Waberi
Acclaimed author Abdourahman Waberi was invited by the Cultural Center last week, following a request from the French Secondary Department, led by Isabelle Milkoff, to expand the teachers’ knowledge of...
View ArticlePlongée dans la littérature francophone avec Abdourahman Waberi
A la demande du département de Français du Secondaire, coordonné par Isabelle Milkoff, le Centre Culturel a invité le Professeur Abdourahman Waberi, le 6 novembre dernier, pour une rencontre virtuelle...
View ArticleLycée Community Unites to Support City Harvest
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...
View ArticleGoing Deeper to Develop a True Intercultural Mindset
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...
View ArticleHindered Encounters: Finding Connections during Covid-19
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...
View ArticleThe Protective Power of Ritual
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...
View ArticleE-Sports Take Hold at the Lycée
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...
View ArticleLet’s Talk: Creating an Engaging Classroom for All Students
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...
View ArticleVoyage en Francophonie…with Yseult, Emel, Andréanne, Moonaya, et Mino….
On Saturday, March 20, International Day of Francophonie, the Cultural Center of the Lycée Français de New York, in partnership with the International Organization of La Francophonie (OIF) in Paris and...
View ArticleStudents Reflect on the Future of our Planet
So far, in the 2020-21 school year, we’ve had 3 snow days, which in my eight years at the Lycée is a record. But, as the seventh graders explain, we should not be confusing climate and weather. While...
View ArticleVoyage en francophonie: Yseult, Emel, Andréanne, Moonaya, Mino….
Le 20 mars prochain, jour de la Francophonie, le Centre Culturel du Lycée Français de New York, en partenariat avec l’Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) à Paris et New York, et le...
View ArticleCérémonie de remise de la Légion d’honneur à Evelyne Estey
Evelyne Estey will be 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.
View ArticleLycée Honors Dr. Sylvie de Souza, Class of 1981
The Lycée Français de New York honors alumna Dr. Sylvie de Souza, Chair of Emergency Medicine and Brooklyn Hospital during Tous Ensemble: Lycée Strong, its first ever online Gala on Wednesday, March...
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