Mercredi 7 septembre 2011
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Last January our kids spent a wonderful week working with artist Hervé Tullet, a French children’s 
author/illustrator, who has since signed with
an English-language publisher and is now in stores everywhere … and a pleasant surprise is to find that he has posted pictures of his LILA experience on HIS official website! Have a look and see
if you can spot LILA amongst the rich offerings the site provides… http://www.herve-tullet.com
Now, for those of you who follow what educational researchers have to say about the benefits of including the arts in
education, here’s an article from one of France’s great educational minds, Philippe Meirieu, that appeared this summer in the Monde … Yes, the article is in French… but as my blog posts are
largely monolingual, I figured it was time to give our French readers a leg up for once! MEIRIEU
What is in the works for this year you ask? Spending a week with M. Tullet was so memorable that we thought we would kick it
up a notch. Thanks to LILA parents’ generous contributions to our Annual Drive, we will be able to have an artist in residence come for a full month in May to work with the kids on a longer
project. Follow the link for a sneak peak at this year’s artist … http://laurentmoreau.ultra-book.com/
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Lundi 8 août 2011
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It is always pleasant to receive validation for our parental choices… In late May an article appeared in the New York Times
(pdf below) which was an interview with researcher Ellen Bialystok. Ellen Bialystok is a name I know very well… She is one of the world’s leading researchers in bilingual education.
If you Wikipedia her it will tell you this:
Ellen Bialystok is a Canadian psychologist who is currently a Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology at York University as well
as an Associate Scientist at the Rotman Research Institute of the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care.
She received her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 1976.
Her main interest in research has been in the area of bilingualism and its effect on language
and cognitive development in children. This area has expanded to also include exploration of adult processing and how bilingualism from a young age affects the cognitive skills, and
retention of these skills, with aging. She has also worked in the areas of literacy acquisition in children, metalinguistic awareness models and second language acquisition, and the
development of spatial cognition.
In addition to teaching and doing research, she has lectured in universities around the world, spanning four
continents.
Take a couple of minutes to open the pdf… it is a good interview and certainly should reassure many of our parents that the
choice they made in putting their kids in a bilingual program is in fact a good one… Two things I take away from the short article… first of all, being bilingual is more than just
knowing two languages… and secondly, something I repeat over and over to families… this is not a quick fix… it is not as if a couple of years in a French school “should do the trick.” Being
bilingual is a habit of the mind, something that comes with ongoing, constant and lifelong practice.
The Bilingual Advantage - NYTimes
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Lundi 8 août 2011
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IB STUDENTS MATRICULATED AT:
MCGILL UNIVERSITY
NYU
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
CSUN
PCC
FB STUDENTS MATRICULATED AT:
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
MCGILL UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (UK)
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY
UNIVERSITY OF LA VERNE
UNIVERSITE DE NANTES (FRANCE)
WHERE DID THEY GET
IN???
INTERNATIONAL:
MCGILL UNIVERSITY (CANADA)
PREPA HENRY IV (FRANCE)
SCIENCES PO REIMS (FRANCE)
UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH (UK)
UNIVERSITE DE NANTES (FRANCE)
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (UK)
U.S.:
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
BARD COLLEGE
BOSTON UNIVERSITY
DREW UNIVERSITY
EUGENE LANG COLLEGE
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
PARSONS NEW SCHOOL OF DESIGN
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
MANHATTAN MARYMOUNT COLLEGE
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE
UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN UTAH
WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE
CALIFORNIA:
CALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY
LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY
OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY (CSU) @:
FULLERTON
NORTHRIDGE
POMONA (CAL POLY)
SAN FRANCISCO (SF STATE)
MARYMOUNT COLLEGE
MILLS COLLEGE
SCRIPPS COLLEGE
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (UC) @:
BERKELEY
DAVIS
IRVINE
LOS ANGELES
RIVERSIDE
SANTA BARBARA
SANTA CRUZ
SAN DIEGO
UNIVERSITY OF LA VERNE
UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
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Mardi 5 juillet 2011
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Every year, the last exam results to come in are the International Baccalaureate results.... well they are in! They close up
a round of exam results that are quite impressive...
So just the facts:
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All students be it IB or certificate candidates successfully passed every exam they took!
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All 7 students presented for a full diploma successfully passed their exams!
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All 7 students will receive a full BILINGUAL diploma (an extra feather in the very prestigious IB cap)
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6 of 7 students received a score that would make them eligible to enter a UC with sophomore standing.
In addition to that, the 7 French Bac students who took an English exam above and beyond their French Bac classes all
successfully passed their certificates with scores of 5 or above (7 is the highest score possible)! Two received the coveted score of 7 on the Higher Level English exam.
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Samedi 25 juin 2011
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04:05
Just the facts for today... a class of 34 students...
All successfully passed their French Brevet... (National exam given to students in France)
2 received a "mention tres bien" (summa cum laude)
19 received a "mention bien" (magna cum laude)
10 received a "mention assez bien" (cum laude)
Bravo 9th Grade class of 2011 - and teachers ! Your hard work has paid off... I think this is a strong strong
proof that our kids' can follow a rigourous French curriculum and can even compete with French students! :-)
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