Rights and Responsibilities — field study

Community Engagement Outing: July ‘64 Tour — by Jocie Kopfman and Lars Kuelling On a rainy Friday, November 3rd, the Trimester I Rights & Responsibilities class (required for all 9th graders) took a trip to downtown Rochester to hear first-hand memories of the July 1964 race rebellion and gain context...

Microfarm Design Feedback Session

On Thursday, November 2, senior Davy Brooks shared their ongoing work to redesign the Harley Micro-Farm as part of an independent study with Lisa Barker, Food and Farm Coordinator. On the heels of being part of the current and former student panel on sustainability for the October Commons Series event,...

Food and Farm Pickle Tasting Table

One fine lunch time in the Lower School (Wednesday, October 25th to be exact), members of the Food and Farm 101 class set up a table for sampling two varieties of pickles which they made in class. One variety was made with the standard ingredients of vinegar, water, salt, garlic,...

Common Plate — Second Edition

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...

Common Ground: Unearthing the terraced gardens

Back in 2013, our first blog post dedicated to Common Ground (meaning a teacher and class integrating Commons resources or programs into their existing curriculum) featured Mr. Singaravelu working with his history students to construct terraced gardens. You can reminisce by clicking the link to the blog post here. Fast...

Rochester Global Connections visitors

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...

Commons Series #1 — Dr. Mark Zupan

Harley was proud and honored to have Dr. Mark Zupan as our featured speaker at the first Commons Series event of the school  year. Mark Zupan is a Harley parent (’10 and ’14), past Board of Trustees president, and current President of Alfred University. His latest book, Inside Job: How...