BOK Gerstell Academy

What is Gerstell Academy's Mission?

• The art of positively influencing others to unite in a common direction and guiding them to improve themselves and their community.

• Gerstell Academy is a diverse educational community dedicated to providing a nurturing and mentoring environment where each student's potential to become a leader, to learn, to grow morally, to be physically fit, and to compete is maximized.

• The ability to act in the face of fear.

• Doing the right thing when no one is looking regardless of the consequences.

What are the four pillars?

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The Gerstell motto includes

• leadership, honor and courage

• leadership, critical thinking and courage

• honor, leadership and physical fit

• leadership, courage and community

What is critical thinking?

• We must always remember our students are children deserving of a childhood in which they are nurtured, protected, and guided to maturity.

• Gerstell Academy is a diverse educational community dedicated to providing a nurturing and mentoring environment where each student's potential to become a leader, to learn, to grow morally, to be physically fit, and to compete is maximized.

• Gerstell Academy provides the environment to ensure a resurgence of young leaders of positive character with an education based on the Motto of “Leadership, Honor, Courage,” the Gerstell Academy Leadership Principles, and the Leadership Attributes.

• “The ability to analyze facts, to generate and organize ideas, to defend logical results, to make comparisons, to draw inferences, to evaluate arguments excluding bias, to solve problems, to be open minded when reflecting on the process.”

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