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How does a $5 senior donation build a new chemistry lab? What does STEM have to do with my passion for the arts? Why is an updated fitness center considered innovative? These are all questions floating around the school lately. As we embark on our fourth year of the five-year Campaign for Cary Academy, our […]
As Hurricane Florence bore down on the Carolinas last week, our students sprang into action to help their community, both here at Cary Academy and beyond.
CERT students help ready the campus As Hurricane Florence bore down on the Carolinas last week, our students sprang into action to help their community, both here at Cary Academy and beyond. As news of the storm overtook media on Wednesday of last week, our Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) students—led by our Director of […]
Pictured above: Members of the Class of 2017 came back to talk to the class of 2018 before graduation to give them tips on making a smooth transition to college Our alums (all 1,764 of them!) are a crucial part of the Cary Academy community. As networked problem-solvers and creative thinkers that are changing the […]
Herzlichen glückwunsch, Frau Burgbacher! Wendy Burgbacher, Upper School German teacher and World Language Department Chair, has been awarded the NC-AATG Klett-Langenscheidt Teacher Award. The award recognizes a NC teacher for outstanding effort and achievement in the teaching of German, as exemplified by excellent student performance on the National German Exam.
It was truly terrific to see so many parents join us last Thursday at Middle School Meet the Teacher Night. This event for parents is much like the first days of school for the students. There were new parents getting to know other new parents and returning parents catching up with one another. There were […]
The William C. Friday Summer Fellowship Program The William C. Friday Summer Fellowship Program provides financial assistance for faculty to pursue professional development projects during the summer that will directly strengthen them as teaching professionals in their field(s) of expertise. Summer 2018 Betsy MacDonald, Upper School Design and Programming Teacher, received a fellowship to hone […]
As an educator and a historian, I am sometimes struck by how much of what I learn can also be described as what I re-learn. I think we all have learning experiences that are powerful partly because they recall for us important lessons we had, if not forgotten, at least allowed to recede for a […]
“Stories are a communal currency of humanity.”–Tahir Shah, in Arabian Nights Walking around campus these last couple of weeks, I’ve been collecting images, sounds, and moments, tucking them away as if they were precious artifacts. Some highlights: A construction paper star with a wish and advice for a new sixth grader from a rising seventh […]
