Cannon School is pleased to announce that Regina Nixon has been appointed as the next Head of Lower School, effective July 1, 2020.

Nixon is an experienced teacher and independent school administrator, with 13 years of experience working in a broad range of positions. Since 2018, she has served as the Assistant Head of Middle School at Nashoba Brooks School in Concord, Massachusetts. She has also worked at Nashoba Brooks as the Director of Admission for three years, Director of Educational Technology and Innovation for two years, and Instructional Technologist for one year. Nixon began her career as a second-grade teacher in Farmville, North Carolina. She will receive her doctorate in Educational Leadership from the University of Pennsylvania this spring.

Read the full article in the Independent Tribune.

Join Head of School, Christopher Jones, via video as he shares details about the 2020-2021 school year, reflects on our shared experience of Cannon School, and talks with a panel of seniors about their Cannon School journeys as we enter election season.

Visit the State of the School webpage to watch the video, initially released on January 23.

Veteran administrator Katie LaRue will be Cannon School’s new athletics director, the school announced Tuesday.

LaRue, who replaces Pat Moyer in the position, will take over the Cannon athletics department on July 1, 2020.

LaRue has more than 13 years of experience in independent schools and is currently the top athletics director at the Madeira School in McLean, Virginia, where she’s been since 2016.

Prior to her stint at the Madeira School, LaRue spent five years as the associate athletics director, girls basketball coach and volleyball coach at Mercersburg Academy in Pennsylvania. Before that, she spent four years as the assistant athletics director and girls basketball coach at Asheville School.

Cannon School unveiled a chapter of school history with the opening of a time capsule that students and faculty had placed behind a cornerstone in 1994 — the year the school moved from 65 Union St. to the present campus on Poplar Tent Road.

At that time, the school was still Cabarrus Academy.

The time capsule contained an array of historical artifacts. Learn about the history of the time capsule, and its contents, on the Time Capsule Reveal webpage.

Choosing a Junior Kindergarten program for your child can be challenging. You have many goals for your child and want to find a school where he or she will learn, build character, and have plenty of opportunities for creative play.

To help guide parents during their journey, Cannon has created a checklist of 13 Things to Look for in a Pre-K Program. We hope you will find it helpful!

Contact our Office of Admission for additional information, or check out our Visit Cannon webpage to schedule a campus tour.

Greetings from Cannon Magazine.

We hope you will enjoy our Summer/Fall 2019 issue that celebrates the Gossage years, introduces Head of School Christopher Jones, and features highlights of our community.

As the Cannon School community celebrates our 50th anniversary year in 2019-2020, we also welcome Mr. Christopher Jones as Cannon’s seventh Head of School. Christopher’s appointment was effective July 1, 2019.

Christopher, a dynamic leader who values authenticity and kindness as much as growth and innovation, previously served the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools (Lab) as the Associate Director of Schools.

Please visit our Head of School webpage to learn more.