by | Mar 4, 2017 | BCCE (Briggs Center for Civic Engagement), Commons in General, Uncategorized
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...
by | Mar 4, 2017 | BCCE (Briggs Center for Civic Engagement), Commons in General, Project Space, Sustainability, The Greenhouse, Uncategorized
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...
by | Mar 4, 2017 | Common Ground, Commons in General, Uncategorized
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,...
by | Mar 4, 2017 | Common Ground, Commons in General, Project Space, The Greenhouse
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...
by | Mar 4, 2017 | BCCE (Briggs Center for Civic Engagement), Commons in General, Uncategorized
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...
