Future Focus: Five-Year Strategic Plan 2024-29

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This strategic plan affirms what we value in a Breck education and propels our people, programs, and community to meet the complexity of our time.

Over the last five years we have leaned on our school’s enduring mission and values to successfully navigate some of education’s most challenging circumstances. From a global pandemic to a national racial reckoning that was sparked in our Twin Cities community, we acknowledged, learned, and evolved as a school. We are now positioned to leverage our strengths to amplify the course for an incomparable Breck experience for current and future generations of Breck students.

The work of the Future Focus plan is to set our strategic priorities so that Breck continuously strengthens our transformative student experience and is increasingly recognized as a national leader in independent school education.

This plan reflects extensive input gathered from students, parents, alumni, faculty and staff, board, and other stakeholders through more than a year of conversation that began with a review of our mission and values. Here, we present our five year vision — one that prioritizes our challenging and innovative academic program, student well-being and connection, faculty excellence, and courageously commits to investing in the sustainability of our school’s mission.

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At the heart of this plan is a single question...
How do we bring Breck’s enduring mission and core values into an increasingly complex world?
We know that our past and traditions are a source of strength, but they will not, in and of themselves, satisfy future challenges.
 

Strategic Priorities

Deepen Academic Excellence

Our challenging and innovative academic program thrives at the leading edge of teaching and learning.

Promote Student Well-being

Breck prioritizes student mental, physical, and spiritual health by developing confident learners, leaders, and human beings.

Nurture Inspiring Faculty

Being a Breck teacher is a top of class professional experience.

Bolster Philanthropy & Financial Sustainability

We are accountable to current and future generations of Breck students.

Transform our Vibrant Campus

To achieve our strategic objectives, we envision campus improvements that will elevate the experience and impact of a Breck education.

Background Information

Read more about our process to creating the Future Focus strategic plan.

Future Focus Updates

Throughout the next five years, Breck faculty and staff are working to move forward a number of strategic initiatives annually. The below list captures our progress and shows how we are continuously moving this work forward.

Investing in the Educators Who Inspire
  • Nurture Inspiring Faculty

In response to our objective of ensuring that faculty have the training and resources to remain at the forefront of research-based educational innovation, Breck supports faculty and staff with personalized and collaborative professional growth.

Empowering Global Changemakers
  • Deepen Academic Excellence

In response to our objective to create new, and enhance current, authentic learning experiences, Breck expands entrepreneurship opportunities across the curriculum.

Alumni Director and Distinguished Alumna
  • Nurture Inspiring Faculty

In response to our objective to ensure that faculty have the training and resources to remain at the forefront of research-based educational innovation, we support faculty and staff with personalized and collaborative professional growth, mentorship, and development.

Faculty and Staff at Breck 25-26
  • Nurture Inspiring Faculty

In response to our objective ensuring that faculty have the training and resources to remain on the forefront of research-based educational innovation, Breck expanded faculty teaching and leadership coaching programs.

Breck Faculty lead the way at commencement ceremony
  • Nurture Inspiring Faculty

In response to our objective to enhance our national presence as a premier destination for exceptional candidates, in Spring 2025, members of the Senior Leadership team, including divisional and program directors, engaged in an analysis of recruitment and hiring at Breck, examined research to learn industry best practices, and identified opportunities to strengthen the process for candidates.

Connect with us

If you would like to learn more about the implementation of our Future Focus Strategic Plan, contact our staff members at the information below.

Ben Friesen

Innovation Specialist

Catherine Pearson

Innovation Specialist