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Two recent images capture some new developments at The Commons. The first is a collaborative art project of a Harley Acorn, created by using 6″x6″ squares of blue, green and brown paper collages which were then assembled into acorn form, if you look at it from a distance. The project...

View from afar

Touring around The Commons with the alumni this past weekend, it is clear that this building is handsome. The fine balance struck between sustainability and aesthetics has truly made this a unique version of an upstate New York barn. You can see from the photos that it rises nicely in...

Chris Costanza–architect and teacher

We are indeed fortunate to have Chris Costanza, the designing architect of The Commons, available to interact with our students of all levels. He had a busy day today, starting off speaking with the Lower School Project-Based Learning class of 3rd and 4th graders about being an architect and his...

Alex’s Lemonade–Empathy in Action

Student-conceived and student-driven initiatives are celebrated here at Harley, and we have our fair share of them. This year’s first such endeavor was in support of Alex’s Lemonade Stand for Childhood Cancer, an organization which raises funds to further cancer research. “Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF) emerged from the front...

Common Ground–our second snippet

While walking around the school, one can find meaningful moments of mindfulness.  This is so woven into the fabric of how we behave and what we do in all divisions, that we can sometimes take it for granted. Many of us have established ways of regulating ourselves in response to...

“The future is what’s going to happen in there”

That expansive quote was offered by Seth O’Bryan during our initial meeting with the newly-established Commons Student Council. We were discussing the different aspects of the Commons that captured our passion and interest, and nearly every member of the 12-student team mentioned the compelling, yet undefined, vision of students taking...