by arothfuss | Nov 4, 2017 | Common Ground, Micro-farm (HOG), Sustainability, Uncategorized
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...
by arothfuss | Nov 4, 2017 | Common Ground, Sustainability, Uncategorized
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,...
by arothfuss | Oct 22, 2017 | BCCE (Briggs Center for Civic Engagement), Common Ground, Commons in General, Sustainability
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...
by arothfuss | Oct 22, 2017 | Common Ground, Commons in General
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...
by | Jun 24, 2017 | Common Ground, Commons in General, Sustainability, Uncategorized
Our Harley students who are active in the Rochester Youth Climate Leaders played an important and leadership role in planning and presenting their first Youth Climate Summit on April 9, 2017. The purpose of the summit was to bring together teams from area schools...
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,...
