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The Belldegrun Center for Innovative Leadership prepares community members to engage with real-world challenges and explore solutions within and beyond the classroom.
Work with BCIL impacts the entire Brentwood School community, cultivating innovative problem-solvers, courageous risk-takers, effective managers, adept communicators, and inspired community builders. Through their involvement in BCIL, students and faculty seek answers in creative, collaborative ways and discover that their work can make a difference.
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BCIL Newsworthy
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Welcome to the Belldegrun Center for Innovative Leadership
We help students follow their curiosity beyond the textbook, grapple with questions for which there are no prescribed answers, and develop lifelong leadership skills.