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I'm always proud to report a success of one of our students, staff and/or families... this last weekend Los Feliz's art teacher Francois Paire was included in the Billboard Art Project. The Billboard Art Project takes over roadside digital LED billboards to turn them into free public art venues[...]]]> Wed, 07 Dec 2011 21:56:00 +0100 0aab702660f0bf517552a03cde9c8a19 News http://www.chaponot.com/article-our-art-teacher-is-an-artist-91520114-comments.html#anchorComment http://www.chaponot.com/article-didn-t-you-wonder-how-they-were-able-to-do-it-91559565.html
Last week's winds took out the city of Pasadena and our little campus got hit pretty hard. You drive down the streets of Pasadena now and it still looks like a disaster... yet it only took OUR campus 12 hours to get back on its feet... How you ask? There is no mystery... Philippe Detzen has an[...]]]> Wed, 07 Dec 2011 03:14:00 +0100 ea7e632a04352a0f483b345fca20069d News http://www.chaponot.com/article-didn-t-you-wonder-how-they-were-able-to-do-it-91559565-comments.html#anchorComment http://www.chaponot.com/article-tis-the-wind-and-nothing-more-91095153.html
Los Angeles was taken by surprise this week by a massive windstorm that semeed to take out powerlines all over the city and pieces of our Pasadena campus in the process. We had two campuses that had to shut down. It was all very dramatic. The positive side to the whole process was we got to[...]]]> Sat, 03 Dec 2011 23:10:00 +0100 c5731924497d78ac79353d520eb726e2 News http://www.chaponot.com/article-tis-the-wind-and-nothing-more-91095153-comments.html#anchorComment http://www.chaponot.com/article-meet-the-next-los-feliz-campus-director-88727019.html
As you all know, I am serving as the Interim Campus Director for Los Feliz on top of my Head of School duties for the duration of this school year. I am happy to report that we had several qualified candidates respond to our Ads and last week our search committee of 9 (made up of a few LILA[...]]]> Tue, 15 Nov 2011 01:56:00 +0100 5f77a4fba194235fd013b556cfd5f2c8 News http://www.chaponot.com/article-meet-the-next-los-feliz-campus-director-88727019-comments.html#anchorComment http://www.chaponot.com/article-the-wall-street-journal-approves-84401289.html
Whenever I introduce LILA to a group of prospective parents, I try to remind them that LILA is not only about bilingual education. LILA always aims to offer a rich, well-rounded curriculum for all of our students Preschool through high school… However it must be said, the bilingual element is[...]]]> Thu, 15 Sep 2011 01:28:00 +0200 2b9f298338baed1d7a45144202f06295 News http://www.chaponot.com/article-the-wall-street-journal-approves-84401289-comments.html#anchorComment http://www.chaponot.com/article-where-s-lila-83634975.html
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[...]]]> Wed, 07 Sep 2011 19:58:00 +0200 705e9f6f0aa1d9aa79291f10453e47e1 News http://www.chaponot.com/article-where-s-lila-83634975-comments.html#anchorComment http://www.chaponot.com/article-bilingual-education-in-the-news-81138073.html
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[...]]]> Mon, 08 Aug 2011 21:21:00 +0200 8808e254a6b9779783390a1cc6ce2b3b News http://www.chaponot.com/article-bilingual-education-in-the-news-81138073-comments.html#anchorComment http://www.chaponot.com/article-where-did-they-go-university-acceptance-and-student-choices-81133744.html
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[...]]]> Mon, 08 Aug 2011 20:06:00 +0200 f1ea5e15e6b424801959b2911fd84613 News http://www.chaponot.com/article-where-did-they-go-university-acceptance-and-student-choices-81133744-comments.html#anchorComment http://www.chaponot.com/article-drum-roll-please-the-ib-results-are-in-100-pass-rate-78673959.html Tue, 05 Jul 2011 20:24:00 +0200 f1c600973ef7081f8cc39754cf6b14d8 News http://www.chaponot.com/article-drum-roll-please-the-ib-results-are-in-100-pass-rate-78673959-comments.html#anchorComment http://www.chaponot.com/article-100-of-our-9th-grade-students-pass-the-french-brevet-77728214.html Sat, 25 Jun 2011 04:05:00 +0200 2b876fb64f51bb51e2261a81f8acc513 News http://www.chaponot.com/article-100-of-our-9th-grade-students-pass-the-french-brevet-77728214-comments.html#anchorComment