We are making our research available to other schools, public, private, charter and home schooling. For more information on what we are doing and how you can be involved, go to our Web page . During the first few weeks of each school year, teachers incorporate specific Internet skills into class projects, such as using search engines, Web design and presentation applications. Teachers have Web sites the students may access for assignments, review sheets and additional class information. In addition, new teachers undergo 160 hours of staff development prior to the first day of class.
Students also have access to the Internet as a whole.
The students are trusted to use the Internet responsibly. There are no hall passes, no locks on Upper School lockers. Faculty are hired not only on the basis of technical qualifications, but on their understanding of the Cary Academy philosophy. Statements by the successful candidates almost invariably focused on the idea of getting the students to make decisions, take responsibility for their own education, discover the meaning and usefulness of data for themselves and be creative. I would rather give my students a sense of having more to explore and understand and a feeling of confidence in their ability to research, examine and express their opinions than to leave them with a false sense that they have mastered all they need to know.