January 17, 2024 Dr. Atolagbe Lets Mercy Lead at the Symposium Dr. Atolagbe is the Executive Director of Great Hearts Christos, private Christian classical schools with two campuses in Gilbert and Phoenix. Atolagbe will be speaking at the 2024 National Symposium for Classical Education on March 20-22 at the Phoenix Convention Center, hosted by the Great Hearts Institute. “I will be exploring the topic of mercy,” said Atolagbe. “As... Read More »
January 11, 2024 Archway Cicero Teacher’s Wearable Art Appears in New York Fashion Week Born and raised in Peru, Archway Cicero art teacher Laura Thurbon’s artistic journey began at the young age of 16 when she began painting murals in her home city. She studied for eight years at the National Fine Arts School in Lima, where she graduated with a degree in painting and fine arts education. At... Read More »
January 11, 2024 Intellectual Flourishing Through Graduate Study by Dr. Paul Weinhold, Director of Continuing Education Allow me to begin with a seemingly inauspicious and miniscule grammatical observation: the verb “to flourish” is intransitive. Like many things that go unnoticed, I admit that this diminutive fact seems inconsequential at first. It certainly does not recommend itselfas a flashy headline for the promotion of graduate... Read More »
January 11, 2024 Phoenix Home Office Walks the Walk in Seminar At Great Hearts Academies, we place a high value on literature and seminar in our high school Humane Letters classes, where the goal is to help students obtain an enlarged understanding of ideas and values by means of Socratic questioning and active participation. While reading these texts, a seminar allows students to discuss freely and learn... Read More »