Academics

College Book Awards and Honors

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Each year colleges and universities give book awards and merit awards to deserving high school seniors. Congratulations to the following Brookstone students! The Yale Book Award is given to a student for outstanding personal character and intellectual promise. Congratulations to Jacob Borkat for receiving this honor and the book “A Better Planet-40 Ideas for a Sustainable Future.” In addition, the University of Georgia identifies and rewards superior scholastic endeavors through outstanding achievement in the first three years of high school in the hope that such recognition will result in even […]

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Welcome New Faculty!

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Our new faculty have been hard at work this week as they’ve been through New Teacher Orientation! In addition to working in their classrooms and learning more about Brookstone, they also experienced their first Developmental Sprint facilitated by the Blanchard Leadership Institute. What an incredible group of educators and a wonderful time spent together! It’s going to be an amazing year!

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Thank you, Brookstone Teachers!

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As we celebrate Teacher Appreciation Week, it is only fitting to honor those teachers with an official, “Thank you.” Thank you for what you do day in and day out and for the many ways, often unacknowledged, that you pour yourselves out for the sake of your students. We simply cannot say thank you enough. Here at Brookstone, people matter. Our students matter and they know they matter. They know our teachers are FOR them, fighting for them, working on their behalf, and doing everything they can to provide the […]

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Celebrating 70 Years – A Look Back at Brookstone

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Throughout this school year we have enjoyed celebrating Brookstone’s 70 anniversary – 70 years that encompass a remarkable history and vision built on a solid foundation of values.  This important milestone has given us a chance to celebrate our founding, reflect on our success, revel in the sense of community we’ve built over seven decades, and imagine our next 70 years.  To celebrate the 70th anniversary, we invited several people to reflect on Brookstone’s history in a video story. Two things were evident, the values that Brookstone was founded on […]

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3K Doctor Day and A Vocab Parade!

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There was lots of activity here on campus today! We had 3K Doctor Day and a Vocab Parade! First up, 3K Doctor Day – where all of your ailments could be tended to. Need a Band-aid? A quick MRI? Or perhaps you just need a good blood pressure check to get you through your day! No need to look further than our 3K classrooms where lots of future doctors were hard at work! After you had received all necessary treatment, it was time to head to the most spectacular, colorful, […]

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Middle and Upper School BLI Update

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We held our spring Sprint® Closing Workshop for the Middle and Upper Schools last week and I wanted to share a little bit about what we discussed. We kicked off the workshop with a video celebrating some of our student accomplishments over this past year. Please know this is not an all inclusive highlight video as there are many more achievements also worthy of celebration, but for our purposes, it allowed us to celebrate what we can accomplish when we set out to do it!  You can watch the video below: So […]

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Brookstone’s STAR Student 2022

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Brookstone School is proud to announce its STAR Student/Teacher Award winners: Joe Hilsman and Mr. Matt Lage. The STAR Student Award goes to the Brookstone student with the highest SAT score on one given test; this student then competes on the local level to include twelve schools. Joe Hilsman is a member of the National English, Latin, Science, and Math Societies. He has been a member of the Honor Council for three years, Latin Club President, and Founder of the Pre-Med Club. Joe is a servant leader, shown by his […]

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