Sunday, January 29th marked a great moment in the history of Worlds Colliding…. Hartman Fest. This event was held in the Commons as a fun, casual way for everyone who has ever worked with Chris Hartman to gather together to wish him well as he says goodbye to Harley as...
The Briggs Center for Civic Engagement was packed with an eager audience who had come to hear Dr. Walter Cooper speaker as our presenter at the Commons Speaker event on January 18th. Dr. Cooper is a scientist, humanitarian, activist, and passionate advocate for education. He earned his doctorate in Chemistry...
The Upper School Key Club once again hosted the Red Cross Blood Drive in the BCCE. According to advisor Juliana Floret, here were the numbers from the event: Numbers of volunteers working during the drive – 21 New donors – 11 Donors – 27 Pints collected – 21 Lives saved...
What do you get when you combine students from Harley and World of Inquiry schools, a few teachers, plenty of raw local food, and multiple ways to prepare it? You get the Common Plate event that took place at Harley on Saturday, January 14th, from 10:00-2:00. Lisa Zeller and Chris...
We are pleased to introduce Derrick Taylor, current Nursery Red parent, to the Commons team. With the departure of Chris Hartman, we are glad to bring on Derrick to help round out coverage already provided by our Designer in Residence, Kyle Graves. Derrick Taylor has degrees in Mathematics Education and...
On December 14th, we were honored to welcome G. Peter Jemison, a member of the Heron clan of the Seneca Nation, and a Faithkeeper for the Seneca Nation and a leader in the Rochester community, as our guest presenter. In 1985, Peter became the manager of Ganondagan State Historic Site,...
“What is a hack-a-thon?” you may be asking yourself. Well, in the descriptive words of Seth O’Bryan found on the promotional poster for the event: Who: This event is free and open to any Harley student in grades 7-12; participants can have anywhere from zero coding knowledge to plenty of...
We were honored to have Meredith Ciaccia, class of ’08, as our November presenter in Harley’s Commons Speaker Series. As Senior Manager of Government Relations & Program Development for Special Olympics in Washington DC, Meredith spoke about her work in creating policy, advocacy, education, and community health support for individuals...
Conversations on Race Conference — by Jocie Kopfman In early November, a group of Upper School students went to the University of Rochester’s “Conversations on Race” conference. We attended two sections: a workshop about publicly-engaged scholarship (see description below) and the key note lecture given by Dr. Derald Wing Sue...
Beyond Soup: by Viccy Tausk, ’17 Beyond Soup is a group composed of upper schoolers dedicated to learning about the hunger issue in Rochester and what students can do to help. Part of this process consists of visiting different organizations currently doing work to help solve...
