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Harvard-Westlake Middle School Modernization Project
   

Entering a New Era at Harvard-Westlake

The Middle School Modernization Project, expected to be complete in spring 2009, will result in an optimal academic environment for current and future students. Plans include a new campus layout that harmoniously incorporates new buildings into the existing campus landscape and the neighborhood; replacing several existing structures with modern classroom, administrative and arts buildings; expanded athletic-field space and improved parking and traffic flow onto the campus.
Hard-Hat Tours Provide the Best View of Construction Progress
Monday, March 24, 2008
Pictured here is a recent aerial photograph of the Middle School construction. At this point in the construction timeline, the rapid progress is now taking place inside the new academic and library-science buildings.

Please visit the Construction Update page to see some larger aerial photos, as well as photos taken by Harvard-Westlake staff members during a recent hard-hat tour led by Vice President John Amato.

Touring the new buildings is fun. If you'd like to see the progress in person, please contact Susan Leher '96 in the Office of Advancement to schedule a hard-hat tour.
Aerial Photo of Construction from mid-January
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
At left is a recent aerial photo depicting the latest middle school construction progress.  The new buildings look nearly complete from this view, but there's much more going on below roof level. The academic building, with the new, state-of-the-art auditorium, is on the left side of this image. The library science building is on the right.
 
Reasoning Behind Department Layouts in New Academic Building
Monday, December 03, 2007
At left is a close-up of the new academic building. Departments and faculty offices will be located on the second floor in the part of the building in the foreground of this image. The part of the building in the background is the new auditorium.

Harvard-Westlake values and encourages interaction, collaboration and knowledge sharing between faculty members, between students, and between students and faculty. This is the reason why each department's offices will be grouped together. At the Upper School, faculty offices for academic disciplines are sprinkled around campus. At the Middle School, they are not. Department heads were asked which set up they preferred, and they overwhelmingly chose to keep offices together.

Each faculty member will have his or her own work space, with additional room to meet with students, thereby facilitating our preferred learning environment -- one where faculty and students are able to talk to one another in an open environment.

The five departments to be located in the academic building are math, science, history, foreign language and English. Their offices will be located on the top floor of the new academic building, and each department will have its own conference room.

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