Today's post for Scholar Talk Tuesday was submitted by Shea, a student at our Gateway campus. All across the country, there are thousands of high schools. Heritage Academy Gateway is just one fish in a sea of thousands. But every school is different in its own special way: different classes, different people, different opportunities. Heritage [...]

Parents today have many worries for their youth. One of the greatest needs today is financial literacy and hardly anyone is teaching the basic concepts that are needed for our youth to face their future. Consider the following statistics from the National Financial Educators Council. 57% of college graduates plan to move back in with [...]

Research Rocks! Writing is a critical life skill, but even more so is research.  Currently, Juniors and Seniors of all three Heritage Academy campuses are going through the research paper process.  Some groan and complain that it isn’t relevant or important to anyone but the English teacher.  Here are just a few reasons why we [...]

Heritage Academy is just a boring, stuffy school for nerds, right? Wrong! If you spend even a single moment inside the building, you’ll see that these four stories are the stage for countless other stories. So, without further ado, here are seven facts about Heritage Academy. How many did you know? Heritage Academy has Fridays [...]

As a first year teacher at Heritage Academy Laveen, comments I’ve heard again and again from scholars: “The teachers really care about us.”  “Teachers want us to be successful.” Thinking about this brought to mind another teacher’s efforts in helping her students by asking them to finish one simple sentence:                                       “I wish my teacher [...]

We want you for sports at Heritage Academy! Sports are everywhere!  In the park, the street, the backyard, the dirt lot, and the schools.  Why come to Heritage when other schools have sport programs? Why come here when other schools win state championships?  Well guess what... we win state championships In fact, we won six [...]

There's something about a play that sucks you in. It transports you though time and space into a new and exciting moment in time. It just so happened that Heritage Gateway’s latest play, 12 Angry Jurors, took you to Jury Duty in the summer of 1963. The case seemed clear: a slum kid buys a [...]