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Cary Academy’s mission of being a learning community dedicated to discovery, innovation, and collaboration often drives us to look for ways to improve on our practices. Propelled by both our mission and our strategic plan to make students’ learning more personalized, flexible, and relevant, we are excited to share a new vision and structure for […]
Over Memorial Day weekend, in May, Speech and Debate traveled to Milwaukee, Wisconsin for the National Catholic Forensic League Championships, where Alex Lim (Class of 2022) took 4th overall, nationally, in Declamation Speaking, out of approximately 250 students who won a place at the tournament. Alex delivered a speech: “What I Learned from 100 Days of Rejection” by Jia […]
At the beginning of Commencement Week, the Athletics Department honored a number of Charger student athletes for their hard work and dedication. Christian Sodano (’19) and Grace Goetz (’19) were honored for their Outstanding Lifetime Achievements, Raiden Mason (’19) and Cara Messer (’19) were named Outstanding Scholar Athletes, Luke Johnson (’19) and Dorrit Eisenbeis (’20) were awarded Athlete of the […]
We typically think of teachers as being off during the summer, but several Cary Academy faculty each year choose to devote at least part of their well-deserved summer vacation time to professional growth activities. Cary Academy offers two major summer grant programs for teachers, the Friday Fellowship and the Innovative Curriculum Grant. The Friday Fellowship […]
Congratulations to Jasmine Powell, whose second Durham Independent Dance Artists (DIDA) composition premieres tomorrow night. Powell, who has served as Cary Academy’s dance and movement teacher since 2015, explores the experience of black womanhood, self-worth, power and powerlessness through poetry and four solo dance performances in Approximation of a Woman, on-stage at Durham’s historic Hayti Heritage Center […]
Upper School Associate Director of College Counseling Brandon Carter is the recipient of the 2019 Curran Family Foundation Leadership in Teaching Award. The award was presented at Monday evening’s Honor a Teacher ceremony sponsored by the Cary Chamber of Commerce. Kara Caccuitto, Laura Price, and Matthew Ripley-Moffitt were also nominated for the award. Congratulations to all four of these […]
Cary Academy’s Varsity Girls Track and Field team won the Triangle Independent Schools Athletic Conference championship on Friday, at CA’s home track. The Varsity Boys team took second place in the conference. A number of CA student athletes were recognized by the conference, after the meet: TISAC Most Outstanding Athlete – Madi Walker, 4-event Champion – […]
Cary Academy's Athletic Department hosted a celebration for the commitments of ten Charger athletes from the Class of 2019 on Monday, May 13, in the Fitness Center Lobby (from left to right): Jessica Judge – rowing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Amy Chang – swimming at the George Washington University Cameron Abernethy – soccer at Davidson College […]
How do you quantify the impact that a teacher makes on the lives of their students, let alone the cumulative effect of an entire community of educators on the larger Cary Academy community? Teaching is exhausting work, even though we too-often pretend it should be effortless.
