August 27, 2020
Flex Day Vastly Expands Our Options at CA
Innovation is a hallmark of Cary Academy; you can’t have DICE without it! The school’s ability to innovate with grace has probably never been tested so much as in the last six months; the challenges associated with educating students during a global pandemic have forced us to re-imagine both what we do and why we […]
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August 20, 2020
The Work Ahead
This summer, CA reaffirmed our values and reiterated our longstanding commitment to the hard—at times uncomfortable—introspective work of diversity, equity, and inclusion that have been core values since CA's founding. Director of Equity and Community Engagement Danielle Johnson-Webb and Chief Student Diversity Officer Clay Thornton ’21 discuss the crucial work that lies ahead for our community, as we strive to heal, learn, and grow together
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August 13, 2020
Patience, flexibility, grace, and oodles of kindness
The start of any school year is always one of imagination and invention. Excitement and possibility. This year, we unfortunately have to mix in caution and anxiety. Head of School Dr. Mike Ehrhardt explains what it will take as we move forward into the new school year and how we can work together to create our best possible future.
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June 4, 2020
Moving forward, United
What will life on Cary Academy's campus look like when school resumes in the Fall of 2020? As Head of School, Dr. Mike Ehrhardt explains, bringing our community back together during a pandemic will require significant adjustments to routines and behaviors to ensure the health and safety of all members of our community.
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May 28, 2020
Prepared for unprecedented times
How is Cary Academy preparing to open the 2020-21 school year, knowing that learning will continue to “look different?" Since opening in 1996, CA has embraced the opportunities of being both consistent and flexible in our program. As Director of Admission Heather Clarkson explains, we have been preparing for a challenging opportunity such as the one facing us in these unprecedented times.
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May 21, 2020
The best of times
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”–we are fairly certain that back in their sophomore year when we read A Tale of Two Cities together and spent a full class period discussing the universal application of the first sentence of Charles Dickens’s tome, our students were not thinking how closely their senior […]
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May 14, 2020
Variety in virtual learning
What does virtual learning really look like? As we head into the final weeks of Trimester 3 and our second month of distance learning, faculty share stories of how they and their students have adapted to (and taken advantage of) the virtual learning environment.
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May 7, 2020
From hallways to homes: Re-imagining community-building at CA
With the shift to virtual learning, how did Cary Academy's Development team quickly re-imagine ways to maintain and foster vital connections within our community, while far away from our beloved campus? Director of Development, Ali Page and CA Fund Director, Katie Todd explain how they guide the CA community as we move forward, together.
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April 30, 2020
Turning on a dime: Transitioning to a virtual school environment
While moving the entire community to a virtual environment had never been part of the master plan, many of the tools and experience required to do so were already in place. That has allowed CA to make what would otherwise be a very difficult transition as smoothly as possible.
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