Cary Academy is committed to ensuring that our students are thoughtful, socially conscious, and engaged members of their communities. But what does social responsibility and meaningful community engagement look like from a larger institutional perspective? Two years ago, the decision to reimagine our public summer camp experience–one that had grown increasingly untenable— opened an exciting […]

It may come as a surprise, but Middle School is a lot like Mardi Gras. As the second trimester comes to a close, CA's Head of Middle School, Marti Jenkins reflects on her students' experiences from the past 12 weeks, building community in an environment that cultivates collaboration, out-of-the-box thinking, and relevant real-life connections. Read it on CA Curious.

In some ways, working to achieve the four main goals set forth by CA's current strategic plan is like solving a giant puzzle. It's a puzzle that Karen McKenzie, Director of Technology and Innovation, has been thinking about a lot—how best to support it, how to make it come to life in our spaces and systems.

This time of year, the word "love," gets thrown around quite a bit, but what does it really mean to love a place? To love your work? To love your community? Head of Upper School Robin Follet shares his notes from Cary Academy's Week of Love. Read it on CA Curious.

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?

Oberursel. You may not immediately recognize the name of this pleasant German town northwest of Frankfurt, but it is very familiar to our German learners as the location of the Feldbergschule, our partner school for the 10th-grade German exchange program. This past October, however, I had the chance to experience Oberursel in a completely different […]

Members of the Upper School’s Indian Subcontinent Affinity Group (ISAG) teach Bollywood dance in the Middle School during Ubuntu 2019. As the great Nelson Mandela says, “In Africa, there is a concept known as ‘Ubuntu’—the profound sense that we are human only through the humanity of others; that if we are to accomplish anything in […]