The Rochester Youth Climate Leaders are back in action! After giving all of the members the chance to settle into their new school year, the eager group started their monthly meetings in October. At this meeting, Ryan McMullan, RIT graduate student and Rochester People’s Climate Coalition intern, shared his current...
From Commons Educator, Jocie Kopfman: World of Inquiry trip: In early October, a group of students from three different clubs, Beyond Soup, the 10th grade Global Youth Leadership Institute (GYLI) team, and the middle school Diversity & Advocacy Round Table flextime club, went to the World of Inquiry school to...
Anneke Nordmark decided that it was a good plan to take her homeroom of creative and intrepid 6th graders down to the Project Space one morning a week to get them busy working together–thus Maker Mornings were born. This plan coincided perfectly with the addition of our Designer in Residence,...
The Harley School has been composting for several years now, started by Chris Hartman and the student Green Team in order to create rich compost for the Harley Micro-farm. This has been widely successful–even to the point of generating more compost than we can use! In an effort to broaden...
During the week of October 17-21, we were honored to have two visiting experts on campus to discuss the broad topic of gender. This coincided well with the Oct. 19 Commons Speaker Series presentation featuring a panel on transgender identities, but allowed the faculty to engage Milena Novy-Marx and Pamela...
For the lower school faculty, the second half of the October 7 faculty in-service day was spent in the Dining Hall, working together to create edible experiments with locally-sourced food. Part team-building exercise and part laboratory experiment to test how using food and cooking might be further woven into our...
The Rochester Youth Climate Leaders had a strong presence at the Brighton EcoFair on June 6th. Their latest efforts revolve around pursuing a fee or ban on single-use plastic bags, and part of the their work at the EcoFair was to educate people about why reducing plastic bags is good...
In Mrs. Rivers’ seventh grade science class, the students took their study of human anatomy to the macro level! To apply their learning about how the bones, muscles and tendons all work together in human hands, the three different classes worked to create three larger-than-life, fully operational left hands. The...
As part of the Lower School Focus Week on “Everything Underground”, the Upper School Design and Innovation Lab students were engaged to help build a two-story “mine” in the Project Space. Using old wooden pallets, some wood screws and plywood, the productive students constructed the mine in less than three...
Written by Seth O’Bryan, Rights and Responsibilities teacher: Super creative community artist Shawn Dunwoody is working with the Rights and Responsibilities class to build a mural to be placed at a community garden in the city of Rochester. Rights and Responsibilities is a mandatory 9th grade trimester course that focuses...
