Hannah Anderson

Hannah grew up in Chicagoland, was classically educated, and never looked back. She knew, at seventeen, that she wanted to be an educator, and so started student teaching Latin at her Consortium. For two years, she taught 4th-9th, using Latin for Children and Latin for the New Millennium. These classes confirmed her delight in teaching and seeing students gain mastery. In 2016 she left for New Saint Andrews College, learning to utilize Latin not only as a tool for etymological understanding, but as a spoken language!

After graduation, she continued to teach 4th-11th Latin, utilizing Tim Griffith’s outstanding Picta Dicta Primer I & II curricula. In the last seven years, she has also taught humanities, K-8th at The Jubilee School, and became their Elementary Dean in 2023. Be it a pictorial history class or vocab flyswatter games, her goal is that students are a) engaged, b) working towards mastery by interacting with pieces they’ve been given, versus being lectured at.

Hannah resides in Moscow Idaho, where she can be found hosting dinner parties, international student nights, and Bible studies! God is good all the time, and all the time, God is good.

Teaching Philosophy

True learning is shown when mastery is achieved. This extends beyond memorization—it happens when a student can internalize the material and apply it with their own understanding and creativity. Mastery can only happen when a student connects new information to something they already know, then applies it to a real-life scenario. This is why Picta Dicta Primer I integrates reading, writing, and speaking, engaging all a student’s faculties. At the end of this process, you will know a student has mastered the content by testing: “Can you explain this to someone else, and help them understand it?” This moves a student through the consecutive steps of recitation, imitation, and individuation.

Hannah encourages students not just to learn Latin but also to discover how to learn other languages and think critically. Learning Latin offers students a unique window into the structure of language itself, enriching their understanding of English and other modern tongues. From sequencing, matching endings, and labelling grammar, Latin challenges the mind to both utilize analysis, as well as to develop a deeper understanding of how we read.

From sharpening brain pathways, to understanding English root words, to reading source texts in their original languages, Latin opens up language(s) & the knowledge hidden within them, for decades to come.

Statement of Faith

Hannah is a committed Christian who believes in the Apostles' Creed. She was raised in an Evangelical Free household, baptized at sixteen, and is a current member at Emmanuel Reformed Church in Moscow, Idaho. Her hope personally, and for her students, is that we can delight in and desire God more. “And so we will always be with the Lord.”