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Great Hearts Academies

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Great Hearts Academies reviews

3.4

51% would recommend to a friend

(496 total reviews)
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Jay Heiler

69% approve of CEO

48% positive business outlook

Great Hearts Academies has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 496 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Great Hearts Academies employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).

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496 reviews
3.0
Dec 6, 2016

Good School, Questionable Ideologies

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Pros

Fellow teachers are friendly and generally helpful, parents are (for the most part) very appreciative, facilities are clean and well-maintained, teachers are given a fair amount of freedom on how content will be taught, teachers have the option of starting their own club and getting paid for it

Cons

Pay is low even for teaching (almost all of the teachers I know who left or are thinking of leaving do so because of money), the school has a very strong conservative ideology--not appropriate for a public school, training is sporadic yet expectations are high, classroom management expectations are very rigid--this style does not work best for many students yet it is the only one acceptable, students are generally not allowed to create their own art or write their own stories--everything is copied from the "masters", and non-Western cultures are frequently dismissed--I have heard disparaging comments from lead office staff about rap music, Toni Morrison, "primitive cultures" in other areas of the world

3.0
Apr 20, 2016
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Pros

Nice work environment. Teachers are generally great folks. Administrators are. ..well, administrators.

Cons

Lowwwww pay. Wayyyyyy too much "volunteering" stuff, like free subbing. They don't tell you that you will have to sub for your colleagues almost everyday during your "prep" period.

3.0
Jan 14, 2016

Teacher

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Pros

Love the students! Love the curriculum! Love the philosophy!

Cons

Teachers are overworked. Time consuming and lengthy student evaluations that require work during breaks. Long hours, but low pay. No retirement plan.

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