Blanchard Leadership Institute

Blanchard Leadership Institute Fall 2022 Update

November 28, 2022 Leave a Comment

“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes We are in our third year of the Blanchard Leadership Institute here at Brookstone. You may remember that in 2020, Brookstone established the Blanchard Leadership Institute through a partnership with Andy Fleming and Claire Lee from The Developmental Edge and their colleagues, Robert Keegan and Lisa Leahy from Harvard University. A Developmental Sprint® is a focused experience that is based in human development research and designed to rapidly accelerate growth. This […]

Academics

Middle and Upper School BLI Update

March 2, 2022 Leave a Comment

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 […]

Blanchard Leadership Institute

Blanchard Leadership Institute Fall 2021 Update

October 7, 2021 Leave a Comment

It’s been a busy fall for the Blanchard Leadership Institute. We concluded the Faculty Sprint in August and the Upper School Sprint in September and we just got underway with the Middle School Sprint last week. We’ve been busy! But we’ve also been productive. We have no taken no less than 450 members of our community through a Developmental Sprint since the beginning of the school year. That’s a lot of potential growth happening right there. After all, that is what the Sprint is all about, utilizing researched driven, Harvard-based […]

Blanchard Leadership Institute

Blanchard Leadership Institute Middle and Upper School Sprint® Update

April 13, 2021 Leave a Comment

We did it! We have officially completed our Middle School and Upper School Sprint® with a Closing Workshop held the Thursday before Spring Break. What an accomplishment to celebrate! In the midst of a world-wide pandemic, where many schools across the country were not even meeting in person, we have not only been meeting in person, but have implemented ground-breaking new initiatives with our faculty and students. All of our faculty in all four divisions and all of our Middle and Upper School students have now participated in the first […]

Blanchard Leadership Institute

Blanchard Leadership Institution Kicks off the New Year

January 22, 2021 1 Comment

The Blanchard Leadership Institute began the second Sprint® of the 2020-2021 school year on Monday, January 4th, with the entire Brookstone faculty participating. It speaks volumes to our faculty’s ability to adapt and to their level of preparation that they were able to devote three and a half hours of the very first day back to school in the new year to professional development, despite having been told we would be moving to all virtual instruction only three days before. It is one more reminder of Why Brookstone? Because our […]

Blanchard Leadership Institute

Introducing: The Blanchard Leadership Institute

January 17, 2021 1 Comment

In early October 2020, the Board of Trustees of Brookstone School announced the launch of the Blanchard Leadership Institute. Brookstone has long held a foundational commitment to provide students endless opportunities to grow and thrive, to offer innovative processes that powerfully impact learning, to have a personal approach in all it does, and to always make sure people, families, our community, matter most. The Blanchard Leadership Institute will not only deepen these commitments but will provide students, faculty, and staff a unique opportunity for personal and professional growth, enabling them […]