Management Development for Instructional Leaders
Management Development for Instructional Leaders
Malachi Pancoast is President and Founder of The Breakthrough Coach, a management consulting firm dedicated to working hands-on with school administrators at all levels. Mr. Pancoast has been helping organizations produce breakthrough improvements in performance, productivity, and employee satisfaction for over twenty years. From 1986 through 1996, Mr. Pancoast founded and ran his own business consulting firm. After working with Mr. Pancoast, client companies typically reported a 200-300% increase in profitability in less than one year.
Mr. Pancoast has been applying his Breakthrough Coach Management Methodology™ to his work with instructional leaders since 1998. His efforts in education have led to dramatic increases in employee satisfaction and retention, student achievement, and the productivity of administrative teams.
Mr. Pancoast holds a B.S. from West Virginia University. He has led seminars and workshops on transformational leadership throughout the United States and internationally. He has been a guest speaker at numerous professional conferences including the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the University of Edinburgh, and the National Associations of Elementary and Secondary School Principals.
Jill Pancoast has over 15 years of experience in adult education, marketing and sales, including five years as CEO of her own executive coaching firm, whose clients included real estate, retail, engineering, construction, high tech, manufacturing, and not-for-profit groups.
Ms. Pancoast is a lead presenter for TBC's seminar programs for school administrators, and is lead presenter/coach for the Alumni Cohort of The Breakthrough Coach's 2-Day Program. Through her work with TBC, Ms. Pancoast has facilitated the efforts of thousands of school administrators as they apply TBC's Metholdology to effect a dramatic decrease in their workloads, accompanied by breakthrough improvements in student achievement.
Ms. Pancoast holds a B.A. from the State University of New York at Binghamton.
Over Ms. Blanken's 25 years in the association community, she has promoted organizational development, strategic marketing and created resource-full® relationships. Ms. Blanken is the co-author of Facing the Future, an environmental scan report, published by ASAE, which investigates the ecology impacting associations and Embracing the Future, a companion toolkit of future-focused exercises and activities. These books advanced the user-friendly standard of knowledge sharing for guiding association executives, their staff and member leaders.
Ms. Blanken is a trusted advisor to staff executives and member leaders of results-oriented, service-driven, and responsibly led organizations seeking to expand capacities that engender member loyalty, increase profitability, and sustain market relevance and longevity.
Counted among her many clients—the Urban Land Institute, International City and County Management Association, American Health Information Management Association, American Trucking Association, National Association of Home Builders, The American Psychiatric Association, The National Council of Life Insurers, the Reserve Officers Association, The Tree Care Industry Association—has been the desire to transform their organizational culture, strategically fuse their "non-traditional" resources, and integrate their marketing efforts.
Barbara Carman brings both educational and organizational experience to her work with The Breakthrough Coach. Mrs. Carman was a classroom teacher for both children and adults in New York State for thirty-four years. Over the course of her career she served as a curriculum designer, department leader, teacher-mentor program coordinator, and presented workshops in her area of expertise at conferences statewide.
Mrs. Carman began as an elementary school teacher, grades 2-6, in White Plains, NY. She then taught in the Monroe-Woodbury Public School District as a Middle School Remedial Reading Specialist. She designed non-traditional programs which enabled problem learners to progress academically.
Mrs. Carman holds a B.A. in Liberal Arts from American University, an M.S. in Education from City College of New York, and holds an additional 60 post-graduate credits in Education.
Phyllis Greenfield brings multi-dimensional experience to The Breakthrough Coach, both as an educator and a social services professional. Throughout her career, she has focused on working with underserved populations, and has a deep understanding of the challenges of working with inner city youth and adults.
Mrs. Greenfield spent nearly twenty years in education, first as a classroom teacher, then as the director of a private school. Her social services experience includes management of thousands of community volunteers, first as a director of five settlement houses and later as a vice president of United Way.
She served for seven years as vice president of the Board of Directors of the Eleanor Roosevelt Center at Valkill. Mrs. Greenfield also served as Chair of the Human Rights Commission for the City of Poughkeepsie, NY, and was honored with the Martin Luther King, Jr. Award.
Mrs. Greenfield attended the State University of New York, Albany, and holds a B.A. in Human Resource Management from the New School for Social Research.
Beth Hyre has worked in the field of business-education partnerships, gender parity, community relations, and government relations since 1991.
Ms. Hyre began her career in Washington, D.C. at The Voice of America (U.S. Information Agency) as a radio English-teaching specialist, writer, producer and editor, then moved on to work on Capitol Hill as a public relations account executive and events planner. In New York, Ms. Hyre worked for Children's Television Workshop for seven years. In her capacity as Community Relations Manager for a large for-profit university in New Jersey, Ms. Hyre either chaired or sat on education committees for 6 regional chambers of commerce, the Monmouth Ocean Development Council, the NJ Business & Industry Association and NJ Technology Council, and co-chaired the Corporate Allied Partners group for the New Jersey Principals & Supervisors Association.
Ms. Hyre was a member of the NJ Department of Education Gender Equity Advisory Committee for fifteen years, where her focus was to bring more women into non-traditional occupations, and encourage them in the study of math, science and technology. Her consulting assignments include the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University (planning a business partnership to hire the disabled), the New Jersey Department of Education, the Girl Scouts of Delaware-Raritan, and the Wright Perspective (developing a public-private partnership for an arts organization in Bergen County).
Ms. Hyre holds a B.A. in Communications from American University in Washington, D.C., and an M.B.A. in Management from Fordham University, New York, New York.
Jerry Callison began Innovias, Inc. in 2005 to help small and medium-sized businesses become more effective through advanced technologies. His ideas emerged after a management career with Bank of America-where his strategic planning impacted more than 100,000 employees and millions of customers-and serving as Director of Electronic Commerce at HomeSide Lending. Today, Jerry applies over 20 years of IT management experience helping smaller organizations realize the same productivity and sales outcomes that historically were available only to larger enterprises. When he is not helping other businesses, Jerry can usually be found at the ball field with his family, gourmet cooking, searching for lost golf balls or volunteering with his church.
Mr. Callison holds a B.S. Degree in Computer Information Science from the University of North Florida. He has earned Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer and Sun Java Developer certifications, as well as a Six Sigma Black Belt for Quality.
Innovias clients also rely on the highly talented staff at Innovias, whose collective 65 years of experience in computer science and engineering, IT and IT management, programming, business, sales and service are an integral part of the Innovias Reliance System.
With twenty-three years experience as an elementary principal, Jerry Hanson brings great perspective to his work with The Breakthrough Coach. He grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota and spent his career working in Minnesota schools ranging in size from 150 to 2800 students. This diversity of school environments gave him a broad range of administrative experience and practical know-how.
Mr. Hanson started his career as a third grade teacher in Ogilvie, Minnesota (population 412). After eight years in the classroom, he took the advice of his teaching colleagues who suggested, "You should be a principal!" He held his first principalship in Clarissa, Minnesota in a K-12 school of less than 200 students. He worked half-time as Principal, half-time time as the Title 1 Teacher, and shared his office with the Speech Therapy Department. He followed that position in Osakis School District, then Perham School District, and finally Detroit Lakes School District where he has been Principal of Roosevelt Elementary School (640 students) and the District Title 1 Director for the past eight years.
Mr. Hanson has served on the executive board of the Minnesota State Title 1 Directors (1990-95 and 2004-09), and the Minnesota Elementary School's Association (1997-09). His schools have received numerous honors including the Minnesota School of Excellence Award and the Minnesota Spotlight School Award. He has received distinguished service awards from the Minnesota Elementary Principal's Association and the National Title 1 Directors' Association.
Mr. Hanson holds a B.S. in Education from Moorhead State University and a Masters and Sixth Year Degree in Educational Administration from St. Cloud State University.
Tom Rooney brings a wealth of experience in K-12 education to his work with The Breakthrough Coach. During the past 18 years, Mr. Rooney has worked as a classroom teacher, an Assistant Principal, Principal, and as an Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction.
Throughout his educational experiences, Mr. Rooney has worked in school districts with large numbers of socio-economically disadvantaged students and English Language Learners. Mr. Rooney began his career as a first grade teacher in California's Central Valley. He has been involved in site and district level leadership for the past 10 years. The students and families he has served throughout his career have benefitted from his commitment and dedication to supporting people to develop to their fullest potential.
Currently, Mr. Rooney is leading a district-wide effort in the Lindsay Unified School District, Lindsay, CA, to implement a performance/standards-based, non-linear, curriculum. His use of TBC's Management Methodology™ has proven instrumental in his ability to facilitate such a significant educational reform in his district.
Mr. Rooney earned a B.A. in Liberal Studies from California State University, Fresno and a Masters Degree in Educational Leadership and Supervision from California State University, Fresno. He also holds a California Administrative Credential, a California Teaching Credential, and a Language Development Specialist Certificate.
Kathy Truglio brings a quarter century of administrative experience in urban and suburban school districts to her work with The Breakthrough Coach. For eight years prior to her retirement, Ms. Truglio served as principal of Eagle Ridge Elementary, a year-round, four-track school of 680 students, pre-school through grade six.
Ms. Truglio began her career with the Philadelphia Public Schools where she taught second grade. After relocating to Colorado, she took a position with the Douglas County School District (DCSD) where she focused on multi-age teaching and learning in a blended first and second grade classroom. Following this post, she served with a core team of Douglas County administrators and teachers who, together, planned and opened a new elementary school. She was then recruited to serve as a building resource teacher and was responsible for staff development, in-service training, and teacher mentoring/coaching. Over the last ten years, she has been both an Assistant Principal and Principal in DCSD.
While at DCSD, she piloted a "Read to Succeed" program for which she earned the governor's commendation. She also served as lead administrator for the district's Health Advisory Council and participated in authoring its wellness policy. Eagle Ridge Elementary served as a Wellness Pilot School and was invited to participate in the Fit 4 Colorado School Challenge, sponsored by CBS Channel 4.
Ms. Truglio holds a B.A., Magna Cum Laude, from LaSalle University and a Masters degree in Early Childhood Education from the University of Northern Colorado along with post studies leading to licensure as a school administrator from the University of Denver.
Ms. Gibson has worked in education for over 30 years, as a classroom teacher, program specialist, site administrator, and director in both small and large suburban school districts within San Diego County, California. She has worked in a diversity of school environments and has successfully increased student academic performance wherever she has been at the helm.
Ms. Gibson has taught fourth through eighth grade, as well as worked as a program specialist in Pupil Services. She then followed those assignments with a stint as an Assistant Principal in Santee California, a K-8 suburban school district outside of San Diego. In 1998, her administrative aspirations led her to Oceanside Unified School District (OUSD) where she served as principal for eight years. Her schools received numerous honors including the Title I Academic Achievement Award, San Diego Urban League Award, and California Distinguished School Award. Currently as Director of Student Services and Special Education she has developed a vision, procedures, and policies that support student success throughout OUSD.
Ms. Gibson is a member of OUSD's Superintendent's Cabinet; is a department lead on the OUSD's school program improvement team's Effective Schools Plan, and a member of the North Coastal Consortium for Special Education Board of Directors.
Ms. Gibson holds a B.A. in Education from University of Arizona and a Masters in Computer Education from the United States International University.
Malachi Pancaost
Jill Pancoast
Rhea Blanken
Barbara Carman
Phyllis Greenfield