The April Commons Speaker Series featured Dr. Joel Pasternack taking a close and careful look at energy — the energy we often take for granted and the energy we need to understand to be smart consumers. He led an interactive discussion which guided his audience through the various forms of...
Even though the weather mid-April is still variable, the Greenhouse is starting to show signs of life and growth. Thanks to Ja’Daiza Johnson and the Food and Farm Lab class, many plant starters and seeds are being nurtured so that they can fill the high tunnel, micro farm, and green...
Nazareth/Harley Collaboration — Jocie Kopfman is a Commons Educator who co-teaches our Rights & Responsibilities class This trimester in Rights & Responsibilities, Harley and Nazareth students began to consider how they could collaborate as community partners. The students are all involved in classes with a similar goal: to empower students...
Our Harley students who are active in the Rochester Youth Climate Leaders played an important and leadership role in planning and presenting their first Youth Climate Summit on April 9, 2017. The purpose of the summit was to bring together teams from area schools (grades 6 through college) to further...
Cheddy Harvey and Siobhan LeGros shared their wisdom and knowledge with a packed house for our Commons Speaker Series presentation on Raising Mindful Children on February 15th. Cheddy and Siobhan have separately pursued mindfulness and the various aspects of it — neuroscience, meditation, self-care, applications for teachers/parents — and have...
On the Friday afternoon before February break, Harley was delighted to host a meeting of the Rochester Sustainability Collaborative. This group is a network of regional organizations that collaborate on projects and assist with the development of sustainability programs. Members in attendance represented RIT, U of R, SUNY Geneseo, SWBR...
In a way to expand (literally) on their study of DNA, Mrs. Rivers’ seventh graders created larger than life strands of our genetic building blocks. Deoxyribonucleic acid nucleotides are composed of one of four nitrogen-containing nucleobases (cytosine, guanine, adenine, or thymine) and a sugar and a phosphate group. The nucleotides...
In a way to connect his 6th grade history students to their class content beyond the classroom walls, Raj Singaravelu utilized the large erosion table in the Greenhouse to let his students explore the kind of soil Sumarians would have worked with to create irrigation for their planted crops. The...
Just before February Break, the annual Science Fair is held in the Gallery and Commons. The fourth graders shared their initial hypotheses for their experiments modeled after whichever famous scientist/innovator they each studied in the fall. They gathered feedback on their design proposals and will use the month of March...
This year’s Middle School musical production is James and the Giant Peach, a Roald Dahl classic story. Under theatrical direction of Linda Foster, with musical direction from Kristy Houston, and additional support from Tracey Linder, the cast and crew are hard at work preparing their show. Since the Upper School...
