The Blueprint for Building a High-Performing Charter School

Build stronger teams, improve student outcomes, strengthen governance, and lead with confidence using the same framework trusted by thousands of school leaders across the country.

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How Healthy Is Your Charter School?

Most School Leaders Know They Have Challenges. Few Know Where to Focus.

The School Performance Blueprint™ evaluates the 10 Indicators that drive sustainable school success and reveals the strategic gaps that may be limiting your results.

Discover What is Working

Identify the strengths that are helping your school succeed.

Uncover Strategic Gaps

Find the issues causing friction before they become major problems.

Build Your Blueprint

Receive clear next steps based on your school's results.

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What other school leaders are saying about Leaders Building Leaders...

Ted Duncan, Executive Director

"Over the past five years, we've strengthened leadership capacity, raised academic expectations, doubled fundraising efforts, and built systems that support long-term sustainability."

Lindsey Sealy, Executive Director

"Leaders Building Leaders helped me successfully transition into the Executive Director's role by providing the strategic guidance, confidence, and leadership development I needed during a critical season."

Michael Satterfield, Board President

"Over a decade of partnership has helped us expand by 40%, reduce attrition below 3%, quadruple our waitlist, and grow our surplus from $300K to $1.1M. The impact has been transformational."

Michele Harris,

Head of School

"The impact has extended far beyond the Executive Director role. Our leadership team has grown stronger, collaboration has increased, and we've built a more intentional culture of leadership development across the organization."

Every High-Performing School Excels in These 10 Areas

Leadership & Culture

Everything rises and falls on leadership. Schools with a clear mission, strong leaders, healthy culture, and effective governance create the trust, alignment, and accountability needed for sustained success.

Performance & Growth

Great schools never stop improving. By focusing on student achievement, stakeholder partnerships, and continuous improvement, leaders create momentum that drives long-term growth and meaningful results.

Sustainability & Capacity

Lasting success requires more than vision—it requires systems. Strong financial stewardship, efficient operations, safe facilities, and the capacity to execute ensure that excellence can be maintained and scaled over time.

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How High-Performing Schools Get Started

The Framework Behind High-Performing Charter Schools

Dr. Tom Miller’s book, The 10 Indicators of High-Performing Charter Schools, distills insights from 300+ charter schools to identify the leadership systems that drive sustained success.

Recognized as a Global Gurus Top 10 Leadership Expert, Dr. Miller developed the 10 Indicators framework to help school leaders strengthen leadership teams, improve governance, and build schools that thrive long term.

Today the framework is used by charter school leaders nationwide to diagnose challenges and accelerate performance.

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Dr. Tom Miller

Dr. Tom Miller is the founder of Leaders Building Leaders and creator of the 10 Indicators of High-Performing Charter Schools, a framework used by charter school leaders nationwide to strengthen leadership systems, governance, and performance.

A Top 10 Global Gurus Education Leadership Expert, Tom has served as a charter school board member, state authorizer, executive director, and leadership consultant, helping schools build the systems required for long-term success.

Lauren Watters

Lauren Watters is a former teacher and principal of an accredited STEM school consistently rated A. Known for her expertise in academic strategy and systems development, she is a valuable partner to school leadership teams.

Lauren is especially skilled at translating data into action, strengthening execution on key priorities, and helping leadership teams see challenges from new perspectives that lead to better decisions and stronger outcomes.

Three Ways We Help Charter School Leaders Build High-Performing Schools

Every school leader faces different challenges.

Our work typically begins in one of three ways.