We were honored to have Dr. Susan Spencer engage with our students and faculty on Thursday, October 16th, and were inspired by the information she shared during her mini-residency at Harley. She concluded her stay with a presentation to the public in the evening on transitioning from fossil fuels to...
The Food and Farm Lab students in this first trimester of school have some sweet ideas about farming and about entrepreneurship. In an earlier post, you were introduced to our volunteer bee keepers, Adriana Lozada and Arthur Rothfuss, as they taught the 9th grade English students about our Harley bee...
The Design Thinking Lab in the Workshop and Project Space in the Commons is a hotbed of creative ideas, active construction, and constant reflection… The Middle School flex time design thinking students have been working on designing and creating prototypes of “dream spaces” for work and hanging out with Commons...
If you have ever walked into the Greenhouse in the Commons and thought to yourself, “Hey, this isn’t really that green”, then this post is for you! The seventh grade science classes are working this fall with their teacher, Carli Rivers, and our Commons educator, Ja’Daiza Johnson, to design, prototype,...
Many thanks to Erin Berg, US English teacher, for sharing and writing about this experience, and to Michael Frank, US Digital Media teacher, for taking the photos! “In preparation for our next book in our 9th grade English class, Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees, we attended a...
Taking advantage of the Ocean Conservancy‘s annual International Coastal Clean-up on September 19th, Peter Hentschke (Upper School Biology instructor) led an intrepid band of students to Charlotte Beach to rid it of waste and garbage. The group included Wenyi Zeng, Lillian Scalia, Adrian Bell, Lily Kegl, Jacob LaDue, Sam Reeder,...
The Harley School was honored to host and co-sponsor Building an Economy for Climate Stability: Candidate Forum 2015, bringing in local candidates for a range of public offices to discuss matters of climate change and political action. The event was organized and spearheaded by Abigail McHugh-Grifa of the Rochester People’s...
Meet the members of this trimester’s Food and Farm Lab class! This group of upper school students, along with Chris Hartman and Ja’Daiza Johnson, will be toiling happily in the Harley Organic Microfarm this fall to prepare the soil for autumn planting, tend the growing plants, and harvest the yield,...
One major goal of the Commons is for the students to manage the building toward net zero energy use. Living Building is an upper school elective course in which students look at data about energy use in the Commons and work with community members to be more energy efficient. This...
As the final presenter in this year’s Commons Speaker Series, John Voelcker (class of 1977) is a prime example of a Harley graduate leading a life of great purpose, at the cutting edge of innovation and necessary change. In his role as editor at High Gear Media’s www.greencarreports.com, John researches,...
