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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 […]
I can’t stop thinking about that smile. It came while I was shadowing Kevin, grade 6, last fall. We had arrived in last period: beginning orchestra. Mr. Qiao was helping students tune their instruments — violins, violas, cellos. He asked them politely to refrain from strumming, banging, or tapping while he made his rounds. Alas, […]
We are pleased to announce that the 2017-2018 Cary Academy Varsity Boys Baseball team has been awarded the 2018 American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) Team Academic Excellence Award. The award honors programs coached by ABCA members whose teams maintained a GPA over 3.0 on a 4.0 scale for the entire 2017-18 academic year. […]
Revolution is always justified.Inequality is inevitable.War brings progress. Provocative statements, certainly – and among those explored this spring in the seventh grade’s Great Debates. “The debates really help students see things from different perspectives,” explained history teacher Alicia Morris. “They don’t choose their topic or point of view, and they have to develop arguments in […]
What if 17-year-olds could perform surgical procedures on temporal bones? Go on the air with a local morning radio show? Design and sew their own shirts and ties? Or build 3-D models of homes? What if someone could do all of that – before they even graduated high school? Well, for starters, they’d be “co-creators […]
