On this episode of Anchored, Jeremy Tate and Tracy Gardner are joined by Dr. Robert L. Jackson, the Chief Academic Officer for a growing network of classical charter schools known as Great Hearts Academies. Dr. Jackson the journey of how Great Hearts began and what makes it different from public education. He explains that Great Hearts is picking up a great American tradition of education that has been displaced in the last century, and he explains what makes an education classical. Dr. Tracy Gardner, the Chief Operating Officer of CLT, also shares her story of enrolling her children in the Great Hearts Academies. Dr. Jackson discusses the role apprenticeship plays in a child's education, and the importance of doing alongside learning. 

On this episode of Anchored, Jeremy is joined by Dr. Don Sweeting, president of Colorado Christian University. Dr. Sweeting discusses his journey to finding Christ in late high school, and the radical change in motivation and purpose it instilled in him. He explains the disorientation of confidence, and loss of values that many universities face due to cultural backlash. He states that universities that do not have a center rooted in Christ can't define character, and therefore feel pressured to give it up. 

On this episode of Anchored, Arooba is joined by David Arndt, a tutor in the integral program of Liberal Arts at Saint Mary's College. David talks about his experience attending public school, and how at a very early age he knew that there was something fundamentally wrong with the way students were taught. He discusses his mother's interest in classical books, and how it sparked his own journey into the world of Liberal Arts. David expresses the timelessness of classical books and says that it is important for students to understand how good books can change their life. He also shares his thoughts on what Liberal Education has lost over time. 

This episode features Spencer Klavan's talk at the 2021 Higher Ed Summit. Spencer Klavan is the assistant editor of The Claremont Review of Books and The American Mind at the Claremont Institute. He has a Ph.D. in Classics and is also the host of the Young Heretics podcast. 

This episode features Jessica Wilson's talk at the 2021 Higher Ed Summit.  Jessica Wilson is a professor, author, and speaker. She is also a Louise Cowan Scholar in Residence at the University of Dallas in the Classical Education and Humanities Graduate Program.

This episode features Robert George's talk at the 2021 Higher Ed Summit. Robert Peter George is an American legal scholar, political philosopher, and public intellectual who serves as the sixth McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. He lectures on constitutional interpretation, civil liberties, philosophy of law, and political philosophy. A Catholic, George is considered one of the country's leading conservative intellectuals.

This episode features Elias Moo's talk at the 2021 Higher Ed Summit about his transformation from a typical modern educator to an educator who is "discovering the rich educational patrimony of the west". Elias Moo is the Superintendent of Catholic Schools for the Archdiocese of Denver. He holds a bachelor's degree in theology and sociology and master's degrees in education and educational leadership from the University of Notre Dame.

This episode of Anchored features Dr. Anika Prather's talk at the 2021 Higher Ed Summit on what the Classics mean to her.  Dr. Prather's research focus is on building literacy with African American students through engagement in the books of the Canon.  She has served as a teacher, supervisor for student teachers, director of education, and Head of School.  Currently, she teaches in the Classics department at Howard University. 

On this episode of Anchored, Jeremy is joined by Tracy Gardner, CLT's Chief Operating Officer.  Tracy discusses her love for tests from a young age, her journey to becoming a psychometrician, and how it ultimately led her to CLT. She also shares her relationship with religion, her conversion to Catholicism at the age of 24, and her experience as a Catholic student at the University of Pittsburgh.  She discusses her dilemma of creating tests for public schools, and how doing that went against the kind of education she wanted to provide her children. She explains that discovering and working with CLT allowed her to combine her love for testing and classical education. 

On this episode of Anchored, Jeremy and Arooba are joined by Hamza Yusuf, president of the first accredited Muslim undergraduate college in the United States. Growing up with parents who loved truth and knowledge, Hamza Yusuf describes his childhood as multifaceted. He explains that much of his education occurred outside of school with his father, who studied the humanities and worked as a college professor. When Hamza was 17 years old, a head-on collision prompted him to investigate life after death, ultimately leading to his conversion from Irish Catholicism to Islam. Hamza discusses the relationship between the liberal arts and Islam, the troubles of modern ideologies influencing Islamic education, and the decline of western civilization caused by forgetting its secret sauce…classical education.