Technology is an essential part of the world our students inhabit and will shape. At the Lycée, we approach it with care, intention, and a clear sense of purpose.
Students develop the knowledge, confidence, and judgment to engage with technology thoughtfully: to use it effectively, to understand how it works, and to recognize its impact. Whether they go on to work with these tools in their daily lives or to shape the future of technology itself, they are prepared to do so with discernment, responsibility, and a strong sense of agency.
Our Philosophy
Technology in the Service of Learning
At the Lycée, technology is never the goal. It is one of many tools in the service of learning, used only when it deepens thinking, expands creativity, or opens new possibilities for students.
Our student-centered approach combines Éducation aux médias et à l’information (EMI) from the French curriculum, which treats information literacy as a core competency, and thoughtful innovation and integration in the service of deeper and differentiated learning.
Students learn with technology and about technology: how tools work, how information is produced and circulated, and how to use both with discernment and integrity. They also learn to recognize when a book, a conversation, or a pencil is the better tool, and to choose it accordingly.
Our team includes Primary and Secondary librarians (professeurs documentalistes), digital learning integrators, computer science teachers, a maker space integrator, and a media lab specialist. Together, they partner with teachers to integrate research, technology, hands-on learning, and digital literacy across grade levels.
In a world of abundant information and constant access to technology, our role is to help students think critically about how they engage with both. Students learn to use technology thoughtfully and to question, create, and take responsibility for what they put into the world.
Thomas Serandon
Head of Libraries and Digital Learning
Digital Learning in Practice
At the Lycée, our digital learning program considers what students need at each stage to become a thoughtful, capable participant in a world shaped by technology.
Digital learning integrators partner with classroom teachers to deliver a progression of skills and understanding through co-taught lessons, embedded curriculum, and hands-on projects. Running through every stage is computational thinking, a way of approaching problems that involves breaking them down, recognizing patterns, identifying what matters, and designing clear steps toward a solution. This habit of mind serves students across every subject.
Preschool
Elementary School
Middle School
High School
Digital Citizenship and Information Literacy
At every stage, students learn to engage responsibly in the digital world. The curriculum addresses online safety, privacy, intellectual property, and the critical evaluation of information. These skills reinforce and extend the work of the library program.
Led by teaching librarians, our information literacy curriculum teaches students to ask essential questions. Is this source reliable? How do I build a strong research question? How do I bring together different perspectives? How do I use information responsibly?
This work is woven into the curriculum through close collaboration with teachers and cross-disciplinary projects. It gives students the habits of mind they need to navigate an increasingly complex information landscape.
A Humanist Approach to Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Artificial intelligence is transforming how we learn, work, and create. At the Lycée, our approach is grounded in a simple principle: technology should elevate human thinking, not replace it.
Students learn not only how to use AI, but when to use it, what it makes possible, and where its limits lie. This learning develops over time. Younger students build awareness of how AI shapes the world around them. Older students examine questions of reliability, bias, and ethics.
At every stage, the emphasis is on judgment. Students learn to use AI with intention and integrity, and to see it as one tool among many. Their own thinking, creativity, and voice remain central.
Supporting Teachers, Advancing Practice
Teachers engage in ongoing professional learning around AI. Through certification programs and classroom-based projects, they explore how these tools can support deeper learning. Each project includes reflection and is shared across the faculty.
La Passerelle, the Lycée’s Institute for Bilingual Teaching, Research & Innovation, supports this work through competitive grants. Faculty examine how AI is reshaping not only the tools we use, but the experience of learning itself.
This work spans disciplines and divisions. Technology is not confined to a single subject. It is part of a broader culture of inquiry grounded in thoughtful, human-centered learning.
Our Libraries
With more than 40,000 volumes in French and English, the Lycée’s library is one of the largest French-language K–12 collections in the United States.
Students and families have access to two dedicated spaces, the Primary Library and the Secondary Library, each designed to meet the needs of its students. Weekly visits, curated programs, and open access make the library a central part of daily school life.
Students also benefit from a rich collection of digital resources. They can explore current events, access a French-language encyclopedia, consult historical archives from the Bibliothèque nationale de France, stream performances and documentaries, and read graphic novels and manga in French, whether on campus or at home.
Teaching Librarians
Our librarians are teachers and full members of the faculty. In the tradition of the French professeur documentaliste, they work closely with classroom teachers to plan lessons, guide research, and help students make sense of information.
From a first research question in Grade 3 to a senior thesis, librarians are part of the learning process. They bring expertise in research, source evaluation, and media literacy at every stage.
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Mission and Values
