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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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Math team

At the State Regional Mathematics Contest at Wake Technical Community College, four teams of CA Middle and Upper Schoolers competed against many of the top mathematics students in Wake County, and likely in all of the state. Roughly thirty schools participated in this meet. Five students earned individual medals for their performances: Bryan Fang (’23), […]

Danielle Johnson-Webb

We are pleased to announce that Danielle Johnson-Webb will be joining Cary Academy as our new Director of Equity and Community Engagement in July. Her hire concludes an exhaustive and highly competitive search that stretched across the country. Most recently, Danielle joins the Cary Academy community from the Montessori School of Raleigh, where she served […]

Students in Berger Hall Theater

CA students address the 2019 Triangle Diversity Alliance conference, which brought together more than 200 students from Triangle area schools to discuss the roles of diversity, inclusivity, and equity in our respective communities and on our campuses. Creating a diverse and inclusive community has always been one of CA’s core commitments. We feel strongly that our campus should reflect the wealth of diversity represented […]

German Day

Seventy five CA Upper School and Middle School students traveled to UNC for the NC German Day Competition on March 21. More than 500 students from around the state took part in contests such as: Extemp Speaking, Poetry Recitation, skits, Singing, Karaoke, Culture Bowl, Scavenger Hunt, etc. The NC German Day Competition is organized by the NC Chapter of […]

Computer data

With T3 well underway, the communications office is in full swing. Now fully staffed—thanks to the addition of Dan Smith, our new Digital Content Producer and Social Media Manager, who joins myself and Web Manager Dean Sauls—we’ve increasingly been able to turn our attention to more of the long-term strategic communications work that I’ve been […]

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| March 21, 2019

Tell Me More

“That’s an awfully long title,” someone recently remarked while introducing me on my 8th day on Cary Academy’s campus. My business cards may read “Digital Content Producer and Social Media Manager,” but I prefer “community storyteller.” “Okay,” you say, “but what does that mean? Why does CA need a storyteller? And, in point of fact: […]

Eight Upper School students were selected to attend this year’s session of the Governor’s School of North Carolina. Founded over fifty years ago, it is the oldest statewide summer residential program for academically or intellectually gifted high school students in the nation. It is a five and one-half week summer residential program for intellectually gifted high school students, integrating academic disciplines, the arts, and unique courses […]

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