Guest blogger: Lisa Barker, Food and Farm Coordinator The Harley Garden Club is taking on a new project: The Harley Compost Project. Our goal is to be able to build usable compost for the Harley Micro-Farm separately from the compost that goes to Community Compost each week. Because we have...
The Harley School was proud to be the host location for the first NY Climate Solutions Summit all day on Saturday, October 28th. Harley partnered with Rochester’s People Climate Coalition, Mothers Out Front, Citizen’s Climate Lobby of Rochester, ACE NY, NOFA-NY and other regional organizations to sponsor this important and...
It may seem like a stretch to talk about optimism in the face of growing climate change and environmental decline, but that is exactly what an eager audience was shown at the second Commons Series event on Tuesday, October 24. Three Harley students, Nate August ‘11, Davy Brooks ‘18, and...
Guest bloggers: Seth O’Bryan, Commons Director, and Lisa Barker, Food and Farm Coordinator Recently, students from The Harley School and World of Inquiry School gathered on a Saturday to participate in the second edition of ‘Common Plate.” This experience consists of small groups of students from both schools working together from start...
In order to spark interest in Tuesday’s Commons Series event, here are some details about the upcoming panel discussion. Panelists Nate August ‘11, Davy Brooks ‘18, and Meg (Malone) Sternowski ‘06 will speak at The Harley School October 24 for the next Commons Series event about their sustainability work as...
Started in December of 2015, the Rochester Youth Climate Leaders has continued to be a strong, but small group of students from Rochester area schools (Harley, School of the Arts, Genesee Community Charter School, Calkins Rd., Twelve Corners, World of Inquiry, and Brighton High School primarily). In addition to monthly...
In early October, Harley was proud and honored to host a group of women leaders from African nations and Haiti who were part of the Department of State’s professional exchange program, International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP), to learn more about the topic of women political leaders. Rochester Global Connections was...
Two eager juniors are taking Living Building this trimester. Between the two of them, they may have possibly logged the most contact hours of their classmates in the Commons, extending back to their middle school science classes which were the first to be housed in the Commons. This team is...
For the 2017-18 school year, we are pleased to introduce two new faculty members in the Commons and one new collaborative course! You can meet the new educators below and read more about the course offerings in the Commons for Trimester I. Meet Lisa Barker, Food and Farm Coordinator....
You may recall that our Commons Speaker Series event for March was cancelled due to an unruly snowstorm that hit our region. We are grateful that the presenters were all able to arrange their calendars to reschedule their presentation for this past Wednesday, June 21st. The panel drew on local...
