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Building an Inclusive Community

What is the key to understanding each other? What allows us to open ourselves to the diverse experience and perspectives of others? How can we create a community strengthened by our differences, rather than one divided by them? How can we engage in difficult conversations around important—and even polarizing—issues in ways that support, respect, and validate all our community members, their belief systems, and backgrounds?

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Get ready to celebrate! Mark your calendars for Cary Academy’s 25th Anniversary Celebration – a weekend of celebrating tradition and looking towards the future. Friday, May 20 Leadership Circle Stewardship Reception6:30 – 8:30 p.m.Center for Math and Science Alumni Reunion Welcome Reception7:00 – 9:00 p.m. Upper School Saturday, May 21 Cary Academy 5k8:00 a.m. Track […]

Save the date! Mark your calendars for Cary Academy’s first community-wide giving day on Wednesday, April 27, 2022. Stay tuned for more details and information about how you can unlock the future for our Chargers!

CA Curious

| January 13, 2022

Making the climb

I woke to a loud crack that sounded like a tree branch snapping. My tent collapsed on top of me – and I shot bolt up, startled out of the fog of early morning sleep.   It was 5am, January 3, at Camp 90 on the Lakeshore Trail in the Smoky Mountains National Park – during […]

Inspired by Yoshi Yoshitani’s Beneath the Moon, performers and production crew members are exploring stories from various cultures as part of a devised theater event that will be enthusiastically shared with a live audience on February 17, 18, and 19, 2022. Congratulations to the performance ensemble:Lauren Bass (7), Teagan Bolt (6), Izzy Bottorff (7), Yul Choi (8), Emma […]

“Who is your biggest influence?”  The question, asked to a group of Upper School students by a finalist candidate for our Digital Content Specialist interview during their full-day community interview, was met with a thoughtful pause.   The students looked at each other around the table. The first reply–“my parents”–was quickly met with nods of affirmation […]

CA Curious

| December 9, 2021

French Fries

The French fries caught my attention.  School had ended for Cary Academy’s Thanksgiving break, but eight of us—three adults and five students—were attending the Georgetown Day School virtual conference on Consent and Sexual Assault, a student-led conference taking place on a Friday and Saturday afternoon. That first day, all the conference attendees heard from a […]

CA Curious

| November 18, 2021

Happy Thanksgiving!

We are always grateful to get to the Thanksgiving Break, and I wish all our students and families a restful and restorative week. Of course, getting to this year’s Thanksgiving Break feels somehow just a bit more of an accomplishment. With all the talk of fatigue and exhaustion in schools across the country, we might […]

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