Community Engagement Outing: July ‘64 Tour — by Jocie Kopfman and Lars Kuelling On a rainy Friday, November 3rd, the Trimester I Rights & Responsibilities class (required for all 9th graders) took a trip to downtown Rochester to hear first-hand memories of the July 1964 race rebellion and gain context...
On Thursday, November 2, senior Davy Brooks shared their ongoing work to redesign the Harley Micro-Farm as part of an independent study with Lisa Barker, Food and Farm Coordinator. On the heels of being part of the current and former student panel on sustainability for the October Commons Series event,...
Guest blogger: Lisa Barker, Food and Farm Coordinator The Harley Garden Club is taking on a new project: The Harley Compost Project. Our goal is to be able to build usable compost for the Harley Micro-Farm separately from the compost that goes to Community Compost each week. Because we have...
The Harley School was proud to be the host location for the first NY Climate Solutions Summit all day on Saturday, October 28th. Harley partnered with Rochester’s People Climate Coalition, Mothers Out Front, Citizen’s Climate Lobby of Rochester, ACE NY, NOFA-NY and other regional organizations to sponsor this important and...
One fine lunch time in the Lower School (Wednesday, October 25th to be exact), members of the Food and Farm 101 class set up a table for sampling two varieties of pickles which they made in class. One variety was made with the standard ingredients of vinegar, water, salt, garlic,...
It may seem like a stretch to talk about optimism in the face of growing climate change and environmental decline, but that is exactly what an eager audience was shown at the second Commons Series event on Tuesday, October 24. Three Harley students, Nate August ‘11, Davy Brooks ‘18, and...
Guest bloggers: Seth O’Bryan, Commons Director, and Lisa Barker, Food and Farm Coordinator Recently, students from The Harley School and World of Inquiry School gathered on a Saturday to participate in the second edition of ‘Common Plate.” This experience consists of small groups of students from both schools working together from start...
In order to spark interest in Tuesday’s Commons Series event, here are some details about the upcoming panel discussion. Panelists Nate August ‘11, Davy Brooks ‘18, and Meg (Malone) Sternowski ‘06 will speak at The Harley School October 24 for the next Commons Series event about their sustainability work as...
Started in December of 2015, the Rochester Youth Climate Leaders has continued to be a strong, but small group of students from Rochester area schools (Harley, School of the Arts, Genesee Community Charter School, Calkins Rd., Twelve Corners, World of Inquiry, and Brighton High School primarily). In addition to monthly...
Back in 2013, our first blog post dedicated to Common Ground (meaning a teacher and class integrating Commons resources or programs into their existing curriculum) featured Mr. Singaravelu working with his history students to construct terraced gardens. You can reminisce by clicking the link to the blog post here. Fast...
