VOL. 6 FALL 2013 Hearts classical education, revolutionary schools Great Hearts America Alumni Highlights BEAUTY WILL To Teach is to Learn SAVE THE WORLD GreatHearts classical education, revolutionary schools ANTHEM 17 PEORIA Glendale SCOTTSDALE Preparatory Academy Est. 2007 teachers 629 GLENDALE 101 serving 101 51 7,625 students PHOENIX across GOODYEAR 17 academies EST. 2010 10 MESA TEMPE 60 AVONDALE 10 GILBERT CHANDLER Academies Veritas Preparatory Academy Archway Classical Academy | Scottsdale Trivium Preparatory Academy Lead Offi ce 3102 North 56th Street, Suite 100 7496 East Tierra Buena Lane 925 North Sarival Avenue Great Hearts Academies Phoenix, AZ 85018 Scottsdale, AZ 85260 EST. 2010 Goodyear, AZ 85338 Est. 2002 Est. 2010 Est. 2010 3102 North 56th Street (602) 263-1128 (480) 776-0413 (623) 866-4730 www.veritasprep.org www.archwayscottsdale.org www.triviumprep.org Suite 300 Glendale Archway Classical Academy | Veritas Preparatory Academy Glendale Preparatory Academy Archway Classical Academy | Trivium Phoenix, Arizona 85018 3102 North 56th Street, Suite 200 23276 North 83rd Avenue, Suite 1 14130 West McDowell Road, Suite 222 Est. 2007 (602) 438-7045 Phoenix, AZ 85018 Peoria, AZ 85383 Goodyear, AZ 85395 Est. 2010 Est. 2007 Est. 2010 (602) 489-7341 (623) 889-0822 (623) 414-4883 www.archwayveritas.org www.glendaleprep.org www.archwaytrivium.org Chandler Preparatory Academy Archway Classical Academy | Glendale North Phoenix Preparatory Academy 1951 North Alma School Road 23276 North 83rd Avenue, Suite 2 13613 North Cave Creek Road, Building F Chandler, AZ 85224 Peoria, AZ 85383 Phoenix, AZ 85022 Est. 2005 (480) 855-5410 Est. 2012 (623) 886-4710 Est. 2011 (602) 996-4355 www.chandlerprep.org www.archwayglendale.org www.northphoenixprep.org Archway Classical Academy | Chandler Teleos Preparatory Academy Archway Classical Academy | North Phoenix 1951 North Alma School Road 1401 East Jefferson St. 13613 North Cave Creek Road, Building C Chandle, AZ 85224 Phoenix, AZ 85034 Phoenix, AZ 85022 Est. 2008 Est. 2009 (480) 855-6474 (602) 275-5455 Est. 2011 (602) 996-4355 www.archwaychandler.org www.teleosprep.org www.archwaynorthphoenix.org Mesa Preparatory Academy Anthem Preparatory Academy Maryvale Preparatory Academy 1303 South Lindsay Road 39808 North Gavilan Peak Parkway 6301 West Indian School Road Est. 2006 Mesa, AZ 85204 Anthem, AZ 85086 Phoenix, AZ 85033 (480) 222-4233 Est. 2009 (623) 465-4776 Est. 2011 (623) 247-6095 www.mesaprep.org www.anthemprep.org www.maryvaleprep.org Scottsdale Preparatory Academy Archway Classical Academy | Anthem 16537 North 92nd Street 39808 North Gavilan Peak Parkway Scottsdale, AZ 85260 Anthem, AZ 85086 Est. 2007 (480) 776-1970 Est. 2009 (623) 465-4776 www.scottsdaleprep.org www.archwayanthem.org Contents 4 LETTER FROM THE CEO Contents ACADEMY LIFE 6 Veritas Prep 4 Letter from the CEO 7 Archway | Veritas 8 Chandler Prep 6 Maryvale Preparatory Academy 9 Archway | Chandler 8 Student Profi le 10 Mesa Prep Brandon Corke 11 ATHLETICS 14 Scottsdale Prep 10 Great Hearts Academy Life 15 Archway | Scottsdale Grades 6 - 12 16 Glendale Prep 18 Curriculum Defense 17 Archway | Glendale 18 Teleos Prep 20 Great Hearts Academy Life 19 Maryvale Prep Grades K - 5 20 North Phoenix Prep 24 Academic Results 21 Archway | North Phoenix 22 STUDENT PROFILE: Spencer Hahn 26 New Academies 24 Anthem Prep 28 Athletics Highlights 25 Archway | Anthem 26 Trivium Prep 32 Teacher Profi le 27 Archway | Trivium Courtney Gunn 28 CURRICULUM DEFENSE 34 Teacher Viewpoints 30 NATIONAL EXPANSION 36 Why Liberal Education Matters Great Hearts America by Peter Berkowitz 32 TEACHER PROFILE: Toyin Atolagbe 38 A l u m n i P r o fi l e A Letter from Friends 34 TEACHER VIEWPOINTS 40 Graduation 2012 36 BEAUTY WILL SAVE THE WORLD Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 42 Family Profi le The Rosztoczy Family 40 ALUMNA PROFILE: Lucy Junker 44 Capital Campaign 42 SENIOR THESIS 45 Academy Giving 44 GRADUATION 2013 46 Financial Report 45 ALUMNI HIGHLIGHTS 48 Senior Thesis 46 FAMILY PROFILE: The Shibata Family 48 ACADEMIC RESULTS 50 FINANCIAL REPORT 52 PARTNERS IN THE MISSION 54 A VISION FOR SAN ANTONIO Arizona Executive Board of Directors Arizona Management Team Maria Baier Hugh Hewitt Reed Porter Dr. Daniel Scoggin CEO, Sonoran Institute Nationally Syndicated Radio Host President, Ryland Homes Chief Executive Offi cer Clint Bolick Christine Jones Tucker Quayle Jay Heiler Director, Goldwater Institute’s Scharf-Norton Founder, Arizona Research Project Investment Advisor President Center for Constitutional Litigation Andy Kunasek Barbara Ralston Andrew Ellison Kurt Davis Supervisor, Maricopa County Executive Director, Homeward Bound VP of Academics President, First Strategic Board of Supervisors Dr. Daniel Scoggin Helen Hayes Dr. John X. Evans John Lock CEO, Great Hearts America VP of Academics Professor Emeritus, ASU President, Kaplan Virtual Education Ann Pritzlaff Symington Ward Huseth Mike Gordon Marianne Cracchiolo Mago Former First Lady of Arizona Chief Financial Offi cer President, Frequency Networks, Inc. President, The Steele Foundation Philip Tirone Kiann Robinson Mapes Lisa Hirsch Handley Bill Montgomery Founder & CEO, 720 System Strategies Chief Talent Offi cer Senior Vice President, Midfi rst Bank Attorney General, Maricopa County Don Ulrich Jeff Van Brunt Derrick Hall Brian McNeil Chairman, RSI Enterprises, Inc. Chief Development Offi cer President & CEO, Arizona Diamondbacks Director, Arizona Dept. of Administration Steve Zabilski Jay Heiler Jessica Pacheco Executive Director President, Great Hearts Arizona Director, Government Affairs, APS Society of St. Vincent de Paul Pictured on cover: Leonardo da Vinci’s La Scapigliata, ca. 1508 Oliver Wendell Holmes once remarked that “humility is the fi rst of the virtues— for other people.” While the Supreme Court Justice was being ironic, his quip rings true in our era of self- esteem and self-promotion. Humility might be fi ne for etiquette and church, but don’t let it interrupt me updating my online profi le or getting ahead in my career. A closer look at humility as one of the classical virtues and as lived at Great Hearts Academies may help dispel the misunderstanding of it as being at odds with a strong sense of self. Robert Grosseteste, a medieval philosopher and one of the founders of the English intellectual tradition at Oxford, offered that humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less. It is a spirit of self-examination and the courage to engage challenges and sacrifi ce with grace. Humility also bespeaks a reverence for those who have wisdom and those who selfl essly teach in love. Such a scholar gives credit where credit is due, not unfairly glorifying himself.1 Socrates serves as an important example of the virtue of humility. The foundation of his quest to live the examined life was his admission of ignorance, as opposed to those blind, self- assured men of Athens who boastfully claimed to know far more than they did. The philosopher “ At Great Hearts, we believe teaches us that humility is the requisite starting that humility is a source of point of the heroic search for truth. From the American Tradition there are also core strength in our shared work examples of magnanimous humility “saving the as students and teachers. Our day” – from George Washington to Abraham 2 bond of humility is that we Lincoln and Frederick Douglas. understand our position in Humility is thus not low self-esteem. The contemporary columnist David Brooks says that, the world, not fi rst as ‘movers rather than being shrunken or diminished, the humble person is instead “aware of her place in and shakers,’ but rather as the grand scheme of things and is sensitive to confi dent heirs to a great larger and possibly higher forces. The humble person has the ability to be ‘unselved’.”3 cultural tradition in the West.” Humility, properly understood, is best seen 4 GreatHearts | FALL 2013 Letter from the CEO Dr. Daniel Scoggin not as a defect, but as the opposite of the excess Humility is thus our guiding virtue as we continue of narcissism—the ancient temptation to which we to open more schools. We don’t open more self-absorbed postmoderns are uniquely inclined. We academies just to grow, but because we accept the can think of the Roman poet Ovid’s telling of the myth moral imperative to offer this program to increasing of Narcissus, who was brought by an angry god to a numbers of young scholars. This same conviction also pool where he saw his own refl ection and fell in love motivates us to make each school more and more true with it, frozen, not realizing it was merely an image. to its purpose as it matures. There he died alone and unfulfi lled. Later in this issue, we talk about our plans to open At Great Hearts, we believe that humility is a source Great Hearts schools in Texas in the coming years, of strength in our shared work as students and starting in San Antonio and Dallas. Great Hearts teachers. Our bond of humility is that we understand America is the national non-profi t organization we “ Most directly our position in the world, not fi rst as ‘movers and have established for such a purpose. In Great Hearts’ shakers,’ but rather as confi dent heirs to a great second decade we will have teachers and students in put, enduring cultural tradition in the West; oriented and inspired multiple cities and states all working hard to receive art and beauty by this tradition, we work in awe of the best that has and transmit the inheritance of Western Culture. been thought, said, and created in the tradition before complete truth. us. Our innate human potential to know the true, the This work becomes all the more urgent as we must If philosophy good, and the beautiful is uniquely nourished by this renew public education as a bulwark of the public tradition, but its riches will be out of our reach unless good.