We believe in empowering students by giving them voice, responsibility, and leadership. In addition to the many ways students lead every day in classrooms through jobs, community service, partners, and more, we have built some very structured and intentional ways for students of all ages to act and grow as leaders in the community.

Starting in Pre-K, students can voice their ideas and opinions in Town Meetings. By fourth grade, they are "clerking," the term that Quakers use for those facilitating community conversations and decision. 

In middle school, all students participate in TORCH, our student governance model aptly named "Togetherness, Open-mindedness, Respect, Compassion, and Heart." Using Quaker-based decision making led by their peers, young people are encouraged to create positive change in our community. In WINGS, students exercise their ability to be agents of change through service. Creating the GSFS yearbook also offers opportunities for creative, collaborative leadership in the middle school grades.

Having a robust and varied field of opportunities for student leadership is central to our mission of educating the whole child - students deepen their knowledge of themselves and others and practice empathy, compromise, and advocacy. As a result, GSFS becomes an even more positive, effective, and unified learning community.