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Great Hearts Academies

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Important Idea, Poor Execution - Teacher Great Hearts Academies Employee Review

3.0
17 May 2015
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Pros

The school has an excellent emphasis with its classical, liberal arts education. Teachers are generally well-motviated and given a lot of autonomy for curricular development. The Socratic method of teaching helps to foster delight in the classroom, improving retention as well as joy with the learning.

Cons

Pay and benefits are poor, as is the work/life balance. Great Hearts is suspicious os general public education, which translates with hiring to a prejudice against people with general education experience in favor of more like-minded graduates from liberal arts schools. This often leads to an imbalance of staff. The rapid growth of the network is also diving teaching talent over a wider area, with little being done in the foreseeable future to make the compensation as competitive as the vaunted education.

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
9 Apr 2026
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Pros

1) Hard to get fired 2) Lowest monthly premiums for benefits I’ve experienced 3) There are busy and slow seasons. Some times you have far too much work to complete in 40 hours and other times you may only have 20 hours of work

Cons

1) Low pay 2) Leadership could be better mainly HR/People Ops, individuals seemingly put into higher up positions based on tenure at the company rather than job experience. 3) Little to no room for growth in HR/People Ops. 4) No annual review process formal or informal and no raises based on individual merit 5) a standard company wide increase each year is in place but it’s typically 2% so not even an amount that keeps up with the cost of living 6) it can feel cliquey

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Great Hearts Academies Response
2mo
Thank you for your feedback. We will share with our leadership your comments. We strive to set a standard of excellence for our students with a focus on a rich liberal arts curriculum and emphasis on moral formation. Great Hearts does provide excellent benefits (medical, dental, etc.), with employee premiums that are significantly below the national and regional averages. We have been engaged in ongoing work on this issue for several years despite no significant funding increases from the states in which we operate, and simultaneously we must balance the need to maintain smaller class sizes, robust network resources, and safe and welcoming campuses. Great Hearts does provide excellent benefits (medical, dental, etc.), with employee premiums that are significantly below the national and regional averages. We have increased our salary ranges in certain regions over the past year. We will continue to work to improve in these areas.
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