Success is an elusive term which Stanford University School of Education and a team from the Harker community  are working to define. Harker is proud to announce that the team will be meeting at Stanford to address a concern iterated by the Stanford School of Education on the Challenge Success website: “the concern that children and adolescents often compromise their mental and physical health, integrity, and engagement in learning as they contend with performance pressure in and out of school. We challenge the conventional, high-pressure, and narrow path to success and offer practical alternatives.”

The representatives from Harker (listed below) comprises students, administrators, teachers, parents and counselors.

Jennifer Gargano – Assistant Head of School for Academic Affairs
Cindy Ellis – Middle School Division Head
Melinda Gonzales – Academic Counselor
Rebecca Williams – Middle School English Teacher
Mala Raghavan – Upper School Chemistry Teacher
Helena Jerney – Parent
Jenny Chen – grade 11 student (as of 2011-12)
Darian Edvalson – grade 10 student (as of 2011-12)