Student Leadership

Brookstone School strives to instill the values of Servant Leadership In every student by living out the attitude, “Serving Others, while Developing as Leaders”. The academic curriculum allows for integrated character education and service opportunities in the classroom, while students are involved in service and leadership development through activities with clubs, organizations, athletics, and community service projects. Through partnerships including our sister school, Ricks Institute of Liberia, West Africa, and local partner, Fox Elementary School, students have the opportunity to develop relationships and serve locally and globally.

Servant Leadership is part of the culture and fabric of Brookstone and service is a core value of Brookstone School. It is just as visible on the sidewalks and playgrounds when students are helping peers, as it is when students are packing meals for those who are hungry or repairing a house for someone without a home. Focusing on others is the heart of Servant Leadership.

We focus on Servant Leadership at Brookstone because we desire to help others, make a positive difference and we want our students to develop and grow.

• We understand that education involves more than equipping students academically and we want to prepare our students to be engaged and active citizens through service and leadership opportunities.

We focus on Servant Leadership at Brookstone because we want our students to understand more about our community.

• We want to teach students about our local and global community and allow our students to be a part of something greater than themselves.

We focus on Servant Leadership at Brookstone because serving others helps both those who are served and those who serve.

• Research supports that being involved with service increases beliefs that one can make a difference, improves the ability to express ideas, and increases empathy and awareness of community issues.

Check here for opportunities to serve your community this summer. 

Building upon one of our core beliefs, the Blanchard Leadership Institute is an institute without walls embedded across all divisions of Brookstone School. BLI serves to help every Brookstone student, faculty, and staff member become a deliberately developmental individual utilizing proven methodologies developed by researchers at Harvard University.  This process helps them unlock their true potential as leaders, and teaching them how to lead and how to serve, while fostering growth together as an educational institution.

Founded in 2020, the Blanchard Leadership Institute, began with a partnership between Brookstone School and The Developmental Edge. It is the first partnership of its kind as Brookstone is the first school in the world to participate in this type of intensive leadership development. 

The Blanchard Leadership Institute honors Mr. Jim Blanchard’s dedication and devotion to growing leaders at all levels. Mr. Blanchard, along with his wife, Sis, have a long history of bringing the best and brightest minds here to Columbus, Georgia, and this new endeavor with Brookstone builds on that legacy.

As Billy Blanchard, Chairman of the Board of Trustees said, “It’s really a great testimony to what we have already created here at Brookstone that we are now in a position to go where no independent school has gone before. We are accessing and putting into practice the very best thinking and research into human development.” 

Through the BLI, Brookstone students are taken through an exercise called The Developmental Sprint.® The Sprint process was pioneered by TDE utilizing research-based methodology developed in conjunction with their colleagues at Harvard University. It is designed to break down and analyze thought processes, behaviors, and emotions, allowing Sprint participants to accelerate their own individual growth and gaining what we call “Developmental Intelligence.” 

This ongoing leadership development is a part of our school culture at all levels, from our Kindergarteners to our Seniors. Our students will be equipped with the skills and self-reflection necessary to unlock the potential not only in themselves, but in their peers, enabling them to develop new capabilities needed to face the challenges of our quickly changing world.