The Progress Report

A comprehensive analysis that gives your school a clear understanding of its unique strengths, challenges, and opportunities—plus a customized plan to move forward with confidence and unity.

Feeling overwhelmed? unsure? exhausted?

Every faith-based school leader carries two vital responsibilities: provide Christian education to students and build a sustainable ministry.

It’s a lot of responsibility!

On top of the responsibility, many school teams also find themselves caught in constant reaction—putting out fires, plugging the next opening, and unsure where to invest limited time and resources. This reactive mode leads to burnout, frustration, and missed opportunities.

Get Confidence and Clarity with The Progress Report

How the Progress Report Works

The Blueprint Schools Progress Report is comprehensive analysis that gives your school a clear understanding of its unique strengths, challenges, and opportunities—plus a customized plan to move forward with confidence and unity.

Over the course of a semester, our team helps you move from reactive to proactive in three steps: assess, align, and act.

Step 1:

Assess

We conduct a deep dive into your school’s organizational health across the 7+1 Components of a sustainable school ministry. It’s a framework we’ve developed especially for faith-based schools. Using surveys, interviews, financial reviews, family and staff feedback, and an on-campus visit, we gather a full picture of your ministry.

Step 2:

Align

We deliver a detailed written report called a Progress Report. It reflects your school’s unique reality, helping your team see where you’re strong, what challenges you face, and where your biggest opportunities lie. This clarity builds trust, unity, and confidence within your ministry: faculty, staff, board members, pastors, leadership, and congregation.

Step 3:

Act

We create a Blueprint Plan for your school. It is a multi-year plan focused on high-impact next steps. It helps your team know how best to steward its time, finances, and resources. And it gives practical, doable steps to foster sustainability and growth while advancing your Gospel mission. We help you build the future of Christian education at your ministry!

The Results

  • Save time and resources with long-term support

  • Build accountability and momentum across your team

  • Maintain continuity during leadership or staff changes

  • Shift from reactive management to proactive planning

  • Build a thriving school ministry ready to serve families now and in the future

“Dana and the Blueprint Schools team have been an extremely valuable resource to our school and leadership team at this point in our journey. They’ve helped us gain clarity on our strengths and what makes us unique, spotlighted and prioritized opportunities for improvement, brought us a structured framework from which to work through this process, and also helped break things out into consumable chunks that allow us to move forward while still operating as needed on a daily basis. The perspective, insights, process, and subject matter expertise they have brought have been extremely valuable.”

-Jason Muenster - School Board Member, St. Peter Lutheran School - Freedom, WI

“Going through the Progress Report process provided us with an opportunity to do an in-depth evaluation of our ministries and to identify the areas where we needed to grow in order to become a thriving entity. Because of this process, our work is now very focused and meaningful.”

-Larry Gierach - Board of Ed Director, St. John’s Lutheran School- Jefferson, WI

What’s at Stake if You Don’t Take Action?

  • Burnout and staff turnover

  • Operating in crisis mode instead of proactive planning

  • Plateaued growth or declining enrollment

  • Confusion and inconsistent decision-making

  • Difficulty sustaining and growing your ministry’s impact

Let’s get started!

Helping your school thrive is no easy task. We know because we’ve been there and done that - our whole team has worked and led in schools across the country.

Take the first step by scheduling a Zoom consultation with us. We’ll listen, ask questions, and help you find a way forward for your unique school.

FAQs

  • The Progress Report was designed for…

    —-Schools who are not sure what their #1 priority is.

    —-Schools that have never analyzed their organizational health and sustainability.

    —-Schools who are not sure of “what their next step is” or whose ministry feels stalled or stale.

    —-Schools who have experienced growth and need to build the internal structure of their school to accommodate that growth.

  • The Progress Reports studies and analyzes the 7 components of organizational health in a school ministry plus the relationship between the church and school.

    1. Title Sheets: Our Mission, Vision, and Values

    2. Site Plans: Community Knowledge

    3. Floor Plans: School Program

    4. Structural Drawings: Financial Plan

    5. Elevation Drawings: Marketing, Admissions, and Retention

    6. Schedules: Strategic Planning & Execution

    7. The Construction Team: Board, Leaders, Faculty & Staff

      +1: Church-School Relationship

  • The Progress Report Process takes 4-6 months.

  • Your school will receive a Blueprint Plan with its Progress Report. It lays out the recommendations found in the Progress Report over 2-3 years in a prioritized order, so your team understands where to start building and in what order to build those recommendations.

    After the Progress Report is complete, schools can choose to engage the Blueprint Schools team in an annual partnership to help them complete the Progress Report recommendations. This is called a Blueprint Partnership.

  • Yes! Simply email danakirchoff@gmail.com for a free informational packet for your team to review.

    Another option is to schedule a no-cost, no-obligation consultant with one of our team members by clicking here.