Lycée Français de New York | Private Bilingual School in NYC

An Authentic Bilingual Experience

L'Été@Lycée 2021

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Explore the world and learn something new at L’Été@Lycée! These 2-week courses in French or in English are designed to spark student interest and offer different learning opportunities across grades to explore career aspirations or out-of-classroom pursuits.

Citizens of Culture and Courage

Committed to bilingual French and American education of the highest standard, our mission is to prepare students of many origins to be thinkers, innovators and leaders, at home in the world.

We inspire and encourage each student to excel and seek academic and personal challenge, to discover interests and fulfill talents, to embrace diversity and build community, to uphold integrity and contribute to making a difference.

From the Board of Trustees
The Lycée Français de New York welcomes students from around the world, of every race, ethnicity and religion. Consistent with its mission to embrace diversity, our school must strive to build a community of teaching and learning that is inclusive, culturally sensitive and equitable, and in which all feel a strong belonging in the pursuit of educational excellence. The Board recognizes and embraces our mosaic of differences and is committed to eradicating racism, and to building an empathetic anti-racist community free of prejudice and bias of any kind, in partnership with all stakeholders: the students, the parents, the faculty, the staff, the administration and alumni.

Lycée at a Glance

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60

Nationalities
34

Languages Spoken
150

Artist & Author Visits a Year
68

After School Programs
43

Competitive Sports Teams

Students Find Solutions to Reduce the Lycée’s Carbon Footprint
As part of the “Printemps du Climat” organized by the Cultural Center, the Lycée’s Science Department is guiding students 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.
What’s Next for the Lycée’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Efforts?
Today, the Lycée is working to confront questions of diversity, equity and inclusion at all levels. Our efforts began several years ago with the creation of faculty and staff, as well as, student diversity committees.
Talking About Financing College When Students Are in Collège?
When is too early to start thinking about financing college? Gail Berson, Director of College Counseling, and Adena Dershowitz, Head of Middle School argue that middle school is not the time to equate grades with money for college.

Cassandre Milard

Learning Specialist
Cassandre Milard, a learning specialist in the Lycée's elementary school, is a leader in intentional and critical reflections on teaching practices, especially in the area of diversity, equity and inclusion. She envisions a community of educators dedicated to disrupting inequity and advancing justice within their classrooms. She has received a leadership grant for the 2020-2021 school year to develop training programs about diversity and bias from a bicultural standpoint for students from preschool through high school.
Jamie Laurens

Dean of the Middle School - English Teacher
Teacher and poet, Jamie is an avid proponent of using mindfulness strategies in school to help students manage the many demands and challenges of life in our fast-paced world. She received a year-long grant to explore the impact of such attention strategies, which began with a review of research on the brain, developmental neurobiology and emotional health. She has been a leader at the Lycée in developing with students and teachers, peer-to-peer strategies for sharing mindfulness practice inside and outside the classroom.
Mireille Miller

Elementary Art Teacher
Mireille Miller, an art teacher in the Primary School, has spent the last two decades chronicling women's achievements in her work to bring greater awareness of their contributions around the world. For the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage, she received a Lycée grant to create Women Leading the Way, a national art, history and storytelling project. Students from over 300 students in public and private schools have participated to share intimate stories of the first woman in their family to vote, and to create portraits of inspirational women.
Mathieu Cladidier

French Teacher - Lettres Modernes

Mathieu Cladidier teaches French literature and language in the Secondary School. He previously taught in France, Sweden, California and Australia. In 2020, Mathieu oversaw L'Été@Lycée, an online summer session for Secondary students. These classes in French and in English extended far beyond curriculum, with the aim of encouraging exploration in fields such as architecture, geopolitics in investing, public speaking, cryptography, and journalism.
Daphnée Marchini-Block

Cycle 3 Coordinator
Daphnée became an Elementary School teacher at the Lycée in 2012. She received a year-long co-teaching research grant to further the Primary School's efforts in Social and Emotional Learning (SEL), a program focused on the emotional development of children. In partnership with the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, she developed training modules for Lycée teachers to use across the Primary School and also organized evening workshops for parents to explore concepts at home with their children.

Creativity through Culture

Understanding and embracing culture lies at the heart of our educational mission. An openness to culture, and cultures, gives our students many experiences to draw on as they develop their own creativity across many fields of study--from the arts, literature and the humanities to science, technology, engineering and math.