August 10, 2019
College Chronicles: Deming Haines (’17): Colorado College
An alternative approach
By all accounts, the last few years of Deming Haines’s CA experience were challenging ones. In 2014, he had transferred into CA as a junior—a tricky transition in and of itself—made all the more difficult by a serious medical condition. He was grappling with post-concussive syndrome which left him with debilitating daily headaches. The headaches would prove so disruptive as to necessitate repeating his junior year.
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August 10, 2019
College Chronicles: Kendall Bell (’15): Duke University
Community beyond classrooms
By his own admission, Kendall Bell wasn’t exactly sure what he was looking for at the outset of his college process.
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August 10, 2019
College Chronicles: Carrie Miller (‘04): Bowdoin College & University Of Pennsylvania, Perelman School Of Medicine
The A-ha Moment
Carrie Miller credits the support of the CA community and the leadership skills she developed during her time as a student with giving her the confidence she needed to strike out beyond her comfort zone to find the perfect college. “I knew I wanted to try something new, to explore a different part of the country, to try out an entirely different environment than what I was used to,” explains Miller.
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August 10, 2019
College Chronicles: Esra Balkas (’17): London School Of Economics
Aiming abroad
An eighth-grade CA summer trip to Oxford University proved pivotal for Esra Balkas, triggering a longstanding desire to attend college abroad. She was immediately taken by Oxford’s beautiful campus and academic gravitas.
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August 9, 2019
Looking Back to Look Forward
The A-ha Moment
Carrie Miller credits the support of the CA community and the leadership skills she developed during her time as a student with giving her the confidence she needed to strike out beyond her comfort zone to find the perfect college. “I knew I wanted to try something new, to explore a different part of the country, to try out an entirely different environment than what I was used to,” explains Miller.
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July 30, 2019
Year 4 Update
Below is our annual update on the school’s strategic plan. Earlier in the year, HOS Mike Ehrhardt shared an update with parents on the school’s strategic vision. You can check out that (rather long) video here. Goal 1: Institutional Flexibility Cary Academy will create institutional flexibility to facilitate innovative and dynamic learning experiences. Continued work […]
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May 30, 2019
Exciting service learning changes are coming to the Upper School
Cary Academy’s mission of being a learning community dedicated to discovery, innovation, and collaboration often drives us to look for ways to improve on our practices. Propelled by both our mission and our strategic plan to make students’ learning more personalized, flexible, and relevant, we are excited to share a new vision and structure for […]
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May 16, 2019
Summer Off or Summer On?
We typically think of teachers as being off during the summer, but several Cary Academy faculty each year choose to devote at least part of their well-deserved summer vacation time to professional growth activities. Cary Academy offers two major summer grant programs for teachers, the Friday Fellowship and the Innovative Curriculum Grant. The Friday Fellowship […]
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May 9, 2019
To our teachers: thank you!
How do you quantify the impact that a teacher makes on the lives of their students, let alone the cumulative effect of an entire community of educators on the larger Cary Academy community? Teaching is exhausting work, even though we too-often pretend it should be effortless.
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