Update: Elm Heights Historic Restoration

Center Court of the New Gym.

After the façade, wiring and creation of the lower level, the most visible work done during the renovation is the gleaming gym floor. For many parents and community members the gym is the face of Harmony they see the most often.

The repainting has been accented with new trim, window shades, and curtains. To complete the look of the floor, elementary teacher Jeremy Bazur and his students painted a new design at center court.

New doors have been placed on the front and back of the stage, and a new passageway has been created off stage.

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Harmony School Continues as a Mentor School

“Harmony School has been a leader in personalized K - 12 education, so much so that it has been recognized by leaders in the small schools, service learning, and First Amendment arenas.” Scott Hutchinson, Development Director, Harmony Education Center

Through a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Coalition of Essential Schools (CES) in Oakland, California, has launched a five-year project to create “a network of 22 CES Mentor High Schools, actively engaged in helping to support the creation of new small schools.”

Harmony School is one of the mentor schools. We are continuing our work with Connections Public Charter School in Hilo, Hawaii.

CES exists through ten principles: learning to use one’s mind well; less is more, depth over coverage; goals apply to all students; personalization; student as worker, teacher as coach; demonstration of mastery; a tone of decency and trust; commitment to the entire school; resources dedicated to teaching and learning; and democracy and equity.

CES has built a network of schools, centers, and like-minded educators “to create and sustain personalized, equitable, and intellectually challenging schools.”


Pictures from Science Day show some of the reasons Harmony School has been selected as a Mentor School.

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