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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.
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.

Floors, Roofs and Walls Appear on Construction Site
Monday, November 12, 2007
The roofs and floors of both the new academic building and the new library/science building are in place.  The walls are going up now, which means before we know it, the interior of each building will be "under construction."

The photo at left is an aerial view of the construction taken in early November. 

Labeled Rendering of Completed Middle School Campus
Monday, October 08, 2007
This image is an "aerial" perspective of what the completed Middle School campus will look like. Streets, buildings, and other landmarks are identifed, and the labels include information about what will be housed in some of the buildings. Click the following text to see the full-size image. Read More...
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