Impactful service learning is a cornerstone of the Cary Academy experience. Addressing childhood hunger has long been an aim of sixth grade service learning.   For years, the sixth–grade team has partnered with Interfaith Food Shuttle […]

By Kathryn Chao, Hannah Gordon, Clay Thornton, and Michael McElreath  This summer, CA’s Center for Community Engagement offered a new intensive experiential course: Urban Design for Social Justice. Designed, organized, and sponsored by CA, the […]

Earlier this month, I welled with pride watching confident Southern High School students participate in an articulate, well-argued, impassioned Congressional debate on a bill raising the minimum wage. As their CA peer-mentors cross-examined them, both […]

Members of the Community Engagement Class tend the community garden at Alliance Medical Ministry in Wake County. How do students at a private school understand and respond to the critical needs in their community? One […]

Cary Academy is an academic powerhouse; it’s the San Francisco 49ers of the 80’s led by Joe Montana.  We smash ACT and SAT scores and rightfully flaunt Discovery, Innovation, Collaboration and Excellence.  Our halls are […]

On Monday of this week, I broke an unwritten rule of the Upper School: I traipsed upstairs, and rather than follow the well-trod path toward the teacher lounge and the coffee machine, I turned right, […]

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 […]