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November 17, 2023

Weekly Letter from Jean-Yves - Stuff of Dreams

I made a quick reference to today’s topic toward the end of letter sent at the start of the school year–it’s time for The École to devise a new strategic plan and a new vision for the future. Fear not; bilingualism and multiculturalism will remain at the heart of our project, but it is time for us to define more clearly the skills and competencies we wish our students to develop–with the trifold objective of integrating those skills and competencies into our curricula at every level, putting projects in place that promote them, and being in a position to effectively measure the progress we make.

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November 10, 2023

Weekly Letter from Jean-Yves - Unpopular Decisions

Let me be frank: the decision to close school for two days for the parent-teacher conferences (PTCs) will probably not feature in my top 10 most popular decisions ever. My ears are burning in a record-breaking fashion—and being an incurable hypochondriac, I’m beginning to worry I’ve got a ruptured eardrum.

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November 3, 2023

Weekly Letter from Jean-Yves - Dreams Are Their Reality

I’ve already written to you about the village I grew up in and the mapped-out futures on offer for me and my classmates when we were kids. As I wrote, living in New York was not within my conceivable realm of possibilities as a child. And yet, I remember my first English class with Brother Roche–I was educated by Marist Brothers–and the sudden, unexpected, long-burning passion it ignited in me for the English language.

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October 27, 2023

Weekly Letter from Jean-Yves - Why We Play

Yesterday, I was John Travolta in Pulp Fiction. I danced – with the confidence that comes with having long hair and being married to Andria / Uma Thurman – amidst manga pirates, cowboys, zombies, Kens, Barbies, Cruellas, witches, and many others. I don’t know what the desire to dress up occasionally says about grown-ups – our psychologist, Stéphanie, is better placed than me to comment on the phenomenon – but I do know that children do it all the time. As it says in the French Ministry of Education’s curriculum documents, children love costumes.

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October 20, 2023

Weekly Letter from Jean-Yves - On Unity

This week at The École, we all made a long paper chain of unity. Inspired by the House Captains, our students decorated the links with a word, a sentence, a drawing, or stickers expressing their love for kindness, acceptance, and inclusion. On Wednesday, we all wore a touch of orange to show how much these values mean to us. Thank you to everyone for your participation – Unity Day is becoming quite the tradition at The École.

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