Every five years, Cary Academy engages in a strategic planning process. In 2020, this process was upended by the COVID pandemic. As students returned to the classroom, CA could have simply established a plan to return to the way things were. However, as Dean of Faculty, Martina Greene explains, we start this school year looking resolutely and optimistically to the future. Read it on CA Curious.

Amaranth greens. Bitter melon. Long beans. Yu choy. Asian chiles. Next year, families across CA will have the opportunity to discover these delicious flavors firsthand—many for the first time—all while learning about and supporting our local Burmese refugee community. It’s all thanks to a service-learning pilot program led by seventh-grade Migration Collaboration students and faculty […]

How do you eat healthily if you live in an urban food desert? How do you prioritize unexpected expenses when you're barely making ends meet? When you don't have the funds to do both, how do you choose between paying the bills and putting food on the table? Recently, the 6th grade was faced with these sorts of difficult challenges plucked from real life. As Director of Equity & Community Engagement, Danielle Johnson-Webb explains, asking students to sit with these uncomfortable realities reveals the power of experiential and service learning and the lightbulb moments they can provoke. Read it on CA Curious.

How do we find an even keel in moments of stress or challenge? As Head of School Dr. Mike Ehrhardt explains, cultivating purpose is the key. But how, then, do you empower students to find an authentic sense of purpose? To find out, read it on CA Curious.

For epidemiologist Kristin Andrejko, asking the right questions isn’t just about finding a good answer. Learn how scientific curiosity and a strong sense of service led her to seek a brighter, healthier future for us all.

Some might consider the task of planning and pulling off a virtual summit with more than one hundred attendees a daunting task, but once a group of CA students saw the chance to create a powerful learning experience for their peers and classmates, they couldn’t help but say “YES!” In mid-January 2020, a group of […]

What exactly does it mean to “own your learning”? To get a grasp of the concept at the very heart of Cary Academy’s mission to build lifelong learners, join us as we dive in deep and get hands-on with the Center for Community Engagement.