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The Breakthrough Coach For over 15 years, The Breakthrough Coach Program has been foundational for new administrators, and life-altering for experienced ones.

TBC is an educational training and coaching firm with a 25-year track record of multiplying the time school leaders spend observing classrooms by 500%, decreasing workloads by 20 hours per week, and measurably increasing student outcomes. The Breakthrough Coach is an educational training and consulting firm that supports school administrators to be transformational leaders who achieve student success in a sensible workweek. With a track record of reducing administrators' workloads by 15-20 hours per week AND multiplying their time in classrooms by 500%, The Breakthrough Coach teaches school leaders how to build productive front-office environments that then free them up to focus on creating sustainable, school-wide improvement. The Breakthrough Coach is profound - the answer to how to increase student achievement and have a healthy personal life.

Are you leading your school – or its customer service department?The more complaints you field, the less time you have f...
10/29/2026

Are you leading your school – or its customer service department?

The more complaints you field, the less time you have for the work that actually moves your school forward. The pipeline of parents-to-principal exists because your system is designed to route everything through you. The fix isn't a harder-working principal; it's a system that interrupts the pipeline before it reaches your door. Click the link to read more: https://www.the-breakthrough-coach.com/interrupting-the-pipeline-of-parents-to-principal-a-system-for-handling-parent-concerns/

From Dallas-Fort Worth to Denver to Texans Can Academy – it's the season of growth!The Breakthrough Coach has run course...
10/19/2026

From Dallas-Fort Worth to Denver to Texans Can Academy – it's the season of growth!

The Breakthrough Coach has run course after course, and every group photo of incredible educators reminds us why we do this. Every city brought its own energy, its own questions, and every photo is what it looks like when a team decides to show up and invest in itself. Here's to the season of professional development, the teams who made it memorable, and to the work that's only just beginning.🚀

10/15/2026

What does it sound like when principals are excited about their jobs again?

After the Breakthrough Coach course, these leaders walked out with renewed energy and real plans for how they'll sustain it. One Graduate put it perfectly: "This will make me able to survive and do this for a long time." That's what sustainable leadership looks like.đź’™

October check-in: đź‘‹The first few months of school bring energy and fresh goals, but also the daily pull of the unexpecte...
10/07/2026

October check-in: đź‘‹

The first few months of school bring energy and fresh goals, but also the daily pull of the unexpected. Classroom time or fire-fighting duty? This month, we're exploring what it really takes to keep leaders in the learning – where they belong.

Stop hiring a "school secretary"  and start hiring a leadership partner. The person in your front office can do so much ...
10/02/2026

Stop hiring a "school secretary" and start hiring a leadership partner.

The person in your front office can do so much more than answer phones and push paper. The right hire becomes your VP of Administration: protecting your time, creating order, catching problems before they become crises, and keeping the details from falling through the cracks.

Therefore, don't hire for the title; hire for the capacity. Look for organizational judgment, financial discipline, accountability, discretion, confidence, resourcefulness, and a results orientation – then recruit for those traits far beyond the usual job boards. And when you interview for the job, this blog piece walks you through the eight questions that reveal whether a candidate has what it takes.

Read the full blog piece here: https://www.the-breakthrough-coach.com/re-imagine-the-school-secretary-role/

Before → After: Erin Hill, Principal of Terra Cotta Middle School in Lake Elsinore Unified School District, California, ...
09/30/2026

Before → After: Erin Hill, Principal of Terra Cotta Middle School in Lake Elsinore Unified School District, California, and a current participant in our Webinar Series, just mastered Fundamental Practice #1™ – Clean Out Your Office!

What was once a cluttered bottleneck became a calm, purpose-built space that gives her back time and focus, so she can be out in classrooms where the work is happening. Sustainable leadership looks like less noise, sharper priorities, and more time where the real impact happens.

The fix for your teacher well-being crisis isn't in your office–it's in your classrooms. 🍎Principal Courtney Kirchman sh...
09/24/2026

The fix for your teacher well-being crisis isn't in your office–it's in your classrooms. 🍎

Principal Courtney Kirchman shares how getting out of her office and into classrooms transformed her school, cutting staff absences by 29%, improving stress management by 33%, improving work-life balance by 19%, and increasing overall staff well-being by 30%. Additionally, Courtney's school experienced 100% staff retention, which had a direct impact on our learners’ academic achievement, boosting ELA scores by 11% and math by 7% compared to the previous year.

This is a must-read for every school leader: https://www.the-breakthrough-coach.com/combating-the-post-pandemic-teachers-well-being-and-retention-crisis/

09/17/2026

How did one principal retain 92% of her staff in a single school year? By getting out of her own way.

Rochelle Lofstrand, Head of School at The GLOBE Academy in Atlanta, GA, spent her first year rebuilding trust, but barely made it into classrooms. Her staff noticed. Only 13 of 35 teachers completed their satisfaction surveys, and a third felt unsupported.

After attending The Breakthrough Coach Foundations Course, she changed everything. She blocked out two days a week to coach in classrooms, empowered her secretary to run the front office, and started developing future leaders instead of doing everything herself.

The results: 100% staff survey participation, 50% reporting regular positive feedback, and 92% planning to return next year. She even finished her evaluations two months early.

School improvement isn't about doing more. It's about doing the right work.

đź“– Full case study: https://www.the-breakthrough-coach.com/case-study/the-year-i-finally-got-out-of-my-officeand-out-of-my-own-way/

What does real leadership support look like? For Superintendent Heidi Sipe of Umatilla School District, it means giving ...
09/10/2026

What does real leadership support look like? For Superintendent Heidi Sipe of Umatilla School District, it means giving site leaders something they can't buy more of: time.

Time to observe instruction. Time to lead data-team meetings. Time to sit side-by-side with teachers and build intervention strategies that actually move the needle for students.

Congratulations, Heidi, keep up the good work!

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