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Student Counseling

Our N-12 school counseling program is comprehensive in scope, preventive in design, and developmental in nature.

Our Counseling Vision: Every student at The Harley School will have access to a certified school counselor who is empowered with the knowledge, skills, and resources to promote student success in the school, the home, the community, and the world.

The Harley School Comprehensive Counseling Program encompasses the values of The Harley School mission and is based in part on the American School Counselor Association’s national model.

Staffing

Each division has a designated counselor who partners with faculty and division leadership. The counseling team also works specifically with our health education teachers, the director of college counseling, and the Academic Dean on a regular basis to further enhance program delivery and evaluation.

John Dolan

John Dolan

Upper School Psychology and English

Mary Pat Cleary

Mary Pat Cleary

Lower School Counselor, Title IX Coordinator

Robert Brunelle

Robert Brunelle

Middle School Counseling

School counselors create comprehensive school counseling programs that focus on student outcomes, teach student competencies, and are delivered with identified professional competencies. The Harley School Comprehensive Counseling Program meets the requirements for non-public schools as part of NYSED law.

View our Title IX Policy HERE. Harley’s Title IX Coordinator are Mary Pat Cleary and Jonathan Ntheketha.

Training provided to The Harley School (Summer 2022) by BondSchoeneck & King PLLC, covering “Title IX Regulations” and “Knowledge and Skills required of Title IX Coordinators, Investigators and Decision-Makers.” View slide from this training HERE

Counseling Services

Counselors provide services to students, parents, school faculty and staff, and the community in the following areas:

Indirect Student Services

Indirect services are provided on behalf of students as a result of the school counselors’ interactions with others including referrals for additional assistance, consultation and collaboration with parents, teachers, other educators, and community organizations.

Parent Services

Parent services include ongoing consultation, communications, and education via newsletters, parent programming, and partnerships with parent council and the counseling advisory team.

Direct Student Services

Direct services are in-person interactions between school counselors and students and include the following:

School counseling core curriculum:

This curriculum consists of structured lessons and discussions related to social-emotional learning topics that advance the knowledge, attitudes and skills appropriate for their developmental level. Social and emotional learning (SEL) is the process through which children and adults understand and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain positive relationships, and make responsible decisions.

The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) is a trusted source for knowledge about high-quality, evidence-based social and emotional learning (SEL). The CASEL model provides a framework for social emotional learning at The Harley School. All students receive group instruction with the division counselor and throughout the school’s overall curriculum that focuses on self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills and responsible decision-making.

Responsive services:

Responsive services are activities designed to meet students’ immediate needs and concerns. Responsive services may include counseling in individual or small-group settings or crisis response.

Individual and small group responsive services are generally time limited (4-6 weeks) and may result in referral to a community service provider. Counselors work with families to establish ongoing therapy in the community, when appropriate, and continue follow up/check in with these students, families, and providers.

The CASEL model

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Students may create independent studies with supervising teachers throughout their Upper School experience or, during Grade 12, they can design Capstone projects—intensive collaborations with Harley faculty and off-campus mentors—involving rigorous academic study and culminating in public presentations. They are empowered to create their own curriculum, set goals, and work on time management skills in order to accomplish their objectives.

Independent Studies run the gamut from The Psychology of Sports to Furniture Design to The Neuroimaging of Alzheimer’s Disease. Capstones, meanwhile, are as diverse as the students who pursue them: Fictional Rochester, Autobiographical Art, Biomimicry Education, Organic Fuel, and Rochester Refugees. 

Indicative of Upper School curiosity and creativity, pursuits such as these distinguish our graduates in college. Through deep dives of this sort, Harley students master more than speaking, writing, and computing: they learn to communicate, advocate, collaborate, organize, listen, and empathize. 

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Harley Black Alumni Network

Climate Crisis Curriculum

Citizen Scientists

Joy Moss: Storytelling Roots

In Every Issue

Class Notes

Diane Donniger Award

By the Numbers

From the Archives

What’s (Who’s) New at Harley

Divisional Highlights

Alumni Profile: Vandebroek

Alumni Profiles: Keller

HAC Athletics

2021 Lives of Great Purpose Awards

1000 Words

Commencement 2022

Reunion 2022

In Memoriam

Retirements and Fond Farewells

Letter from the Head of School

Letter from the Editor

Features

Central Work that Matters

Affinity Group Forms

Climate Crisis Curriculum

Citizen Scientists

Joy Moss: Storytelling Roots

In Every Issue

Class Notes

Diane Donniger Award

By the Numbers

From the Archives

What’s (Who’s) New at Harley

Divisional Highlights

Alumni Profile: Vandebroek

Alumni Profiles: Keller

HAC Athletics

2021 Lives of Great Purpose Awards

1000 Words

Commencement 2022

Reunion 2022

In Memoriam

Retirements and Fond Farewells