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Jill Pancoast discusses how school leaders can reclaim time for instructional leadership and improve office systems.

In this episode of The Good Life EDU Podcast, we welcome Jill Pancoast, President of The Breakthrough Coach, for a conversation about how school leaders can reclaim time, strengthen office systems, and focus more fully on the instructional leadership work they were hired to do. Jill shares the history of The Breakthrough Coach, a management training and coaching firm that has supported school administrators and their secretaries since 1998. The conversation explores how principals, superintendents, and central office leaders can shift away from the “administrivia” of the front office and toward the work that most directly impacts teaching and learning. Throughout the episode, Andrew reflects on his own experience participating in The Breakthrough Coach Foundations Course and highlights the program’s practical focus on role clarity, delegation, executive support, and sustainable leadership practices. Jill also explains why the administrator-secretary partnership is central to the model and how strong systems can help leaders spend significantly more time in classrooms, coaching teachers, supporting staff, and improving student outcomes. This conversation is especially relevant for…

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Host: Andrew Easton

Guest: Jill Pancoast

Topics covered

• instructional leadership
• time management
• school administration
• coaching
• role clarity

Keywords

• instructional leadership
• school leaders
• management training
• delegation
• executive support

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Organizations: The Breakthrough Coach

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