Last week, Hackley introduced a new K-12 initiative: the “United, We Help One Another” Social Impact Project — a community engagement learning experience designed to foster empathy, build leadership and deepen our understanding of systemic social issues in Westchester County. The project kicked off with thoughtful and powerful presentations by students in the Service Leadership for Social Impact class (pictured), who spoke about this year’s topics of Wildfires and Climate Change, partnering with Tarrytown Environmental Advisory Council (TEAC); Immigrant and Refugee Justice, partnering with Hudson Valley Justice Center; and Disability Justice, partnering with The Arc Westchester. This project centers student leadership and invites our entire K-12 community to build awareness and empathy around hyper-local social issues, research and engage with community partners addressing those issues, and design and implement awareness campaigns across all divisions. To support our students in their research and learning, the Community Engagement team also partnered with each divisional librarian to create age-specific reading lists that explore the three featured social issues and their community partners. In addition to presenting their topics to fellow Upper Schoolers at last week’s “Social Impact Symposium,” student leaders also supported presentations in the Lower and Middle Schools this week and partnered directly with representatives from each nonprofit during our “Community Connection Forum” Thursday afternoon (pictured). #HackleyCommunityEngagement #HackleyServiceLearning #HackleySocialImpact #HackleyUpperSchool #HackleyStudents #UnitedWeHelpOneAnother (fb)

Hackley boys lacrosse bring home a NYSAIS title with an 8-4 win over Riverdale. The team played incredibly well to bring home the win. Congratulations to our seniors!! https://t.co/vN9yPzNTG3 (tw)