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The athletic department at Glendale Prep achieved a milestone moment in its history, earning the prestigious Director’s Cup for the first time. The trophy, presented by Great Hearts’ Athletics Department, recognizes the top-performing high school athletic program across the Great Hearts Arizona network each year. At a recent school assembly, Jon Rickey, Director of Athletics for Great […] Read More »

Many of our dedicated cross-country athletes from Great Hearts competed under the lights at the 19th Annual Desert Twilight Cross Country Festival, held at Toka Sticks Golf Course in Mesa, Ariz. Desert Twilight is one of the most anticipated cross-country events in the Southwest, drawing over 6,000 athletes from hundreds of schools across many states. The […] Read More »

The 2026 National Symposium for Classical Education will open with a keynote address by Jeffrey Rosen, President and CEO of the National Constitution Center, titled The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America. Rosen will be joined by two additional keynote speakers: Doug Lemov, acclaimed […] Read More »

Marcus Tullius Cicero said that “gratitude is not only the greatest of the virtues, but the parent of all others.” I have reflected on this quote over the last several months, and certainly was pondering its import recently as I indulged in a belt-expanding Thanksgiving repast with my beautiful wife and our four vivacious daughters. […] Read More »

Scottsdale Prep senior Atish Bala achieved a perfect ACT score of 36. The ACT, which stands for American College Testing, is a standardized test used for college admissions in the United States. Only a few thousand students out of over 1.34 million test-takers annually earn a perfect score, about one-quarter of one percent. Bala admitted that he […] Read More »