Living Building The Commons is a high-tech building. There are many different systems that can be manipulated to allow for the greatest energy efficiency. They are not easy systems to learn and understand. That is where the Living Building class plays an important role. Living Building was an Upper...
Students in Kaitlin Bates’ science classes in 5th and 6th Grade designed and created Earth Day posters to raise awareness for how we can all work to protect and preserve our planet. The gallery of posters is below, and you can see that the topics range from recycling, reducing CO2,...
The class banners at Harley all have special symbols and meaning, each connected to specific classes who are currently in school and alumni. Flag Hall, a connecting 2-story hallway between the east and west sides of the building, was a gathering place for students for many years where the original...
Today was the final day of Lama Venerable Tenzin Yignyen’s two-week visit to Harley. Throughout his time in the Gallery, classes and individual students have watched him work and listened to his passionate views on how we need to treat each other, take care of our world, and seek the...
Monsieur Blanc worked with the fourth grade students in the Commons Project Space to construct and paint bird houses. Bart is a huge supporter and organizer of our Harley Bird educational efforts, and this project complimented both that ongoing study and the fourth grade’s service outreach to Lollypop Farm. The...
After a few weeks of growing lettuce in the 7th Grade hydroponic prototypes, it was time to evaluate how the different models worked. Mrs. Rivers and Mr. Hartman took the classes out to the greenhouse to harvest a few choice leaves from each team’s crop to sample, then they did...
We celebrated cross-generational learning today when the Fiddlers of the Genesee came to Harley to play a side-by-side outreach workshop with our 7th and 8th Grade String Ensemble. Kelly Schroeder, our string teacher and avid fiddler, has been dedicating a portion of her rehearsal time to having the students learn...
The exciting culminating Geography Bee Game Show was this past Thursday afternoon in the Briggs Center for Civic Engagement. The final grade-level teams (decided through preliminary rounds earlier in the week) engaged in heated head-to-head team and individual competition while the rest of the Middle School cheered them on from...
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...
