We are pleased to have students as our guest bloggers now that we are in full swing in the Commons. One such student is Seeley Taylor, president of the 10th Grade class and chair of the Commons Student Council. She is also a member of the Living Building class. She...
On Friday, March 7th, a group of students from School Without Walls and their teacher, Samantha Brody, joined our 9th Grade Rights and Responsibilities class in the Briggs Center for Civic Engagement to discuss and dialogue about hunger in the Rochester area. The morning began with the students breaking out...
As a follow up to the previous PLANTS post on the 7th Grade science students designing and building hydroponic structures, here is a video of the prototypes pumping water and watering their sprouting lettuce plants. You will notice plenty of wires close to water, but be assured that these pumps...
Nothing like two dramatic Shakespeare tragedies to draw the 7th and 8th grade students into the spacious Briggs Center for Civic Engagement to act out the final scenes! In this final week of Trimester 2, Kirsten Reader took her 7th grade classes to the BCCE to read through and act...
Guest Speaker in the Briggs Center for Civic Engagment Returning from our February break, we started this week with a special guest speaker. Andre Langston, manager of WDKX (103.9 FM) radio station, is the son of the station’s founder, Andrew Langston. As an appropriate conclusion to the Third Grade’s study...
Here’s an update on how the Salad Project has progressed and evolved since the late fall. With the opening of the Greenhouse space in the Commons, Chris Hartman and his students have been eagerly designing and experimenting with hydroponic growing sites indoors. Sugar snap pea sprouts are emerging from the...
This year’s Science Fair took over the bigger spaces in the Commons. The Briggs Center for Civic Engagement held the projects of the 5th and 6th graders and the Workshop, Project Space and Greenhouse held the science projects and STEM creations of the 3rd and 4th graders. Wandering from the...
The Center for Mindfulness and Empathy Education sponsored a mini-residency with Daniel Rechtschaffen of the Omega Institute. During his three days at Harley, he met with many grade-level classes, as well as faculty and administrators, and then led a day-long workshop on Mindfulness & Education. Here is a brief clip...
This week marked the starting point of students and faculty working together to keep the common spaces of the Commons clean. The common spaces are those area which are used by everyone, but for which no one in particular is responsible. As the role of students managing the building grows...
“I don’t always write computer programs, but when I do….” These fine gentlemen are working hard on the technical side of collecting data from the various systems in the Commons and making sure that there is way for those systems to share information in a way for students to compare...
