From your first year to your best year, make an impact on Cleveland scholars at Breakthrough Public Schools.

At Breakthrough, teaching is more than instruction — it’s leadership. You’ll empower scholars to reach their full potential while growing your skills, career, and confidence as an educator.

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Why Choose Breakthrough?

We are an innovative network of public, nonprofit K-8 schools with rigorous educator development and a commitment to supporting scholars kindergarten through career.

Serving over 3,000 students across five campuses, we foster equitable, anti-racist environments where scholars and educators can grow, thrive, and achieve their full potential.

Here, you will

Make an Immediate Impact

At Breakthrough, you will make an immediate impact on scholars. Research shows that the classroom teacher is the greatest influence on a child’s growth and development. As an educator, you’ll guide students academically, emotionally, and socially, helping them reach their potential, love learning, and succeed both inside and outside the classroom. You can be the transformational teacher who makes a positive difference for bright and hopeful students every day.

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Every day, you'll help scholars:

At Breakthrough, educators are a significant influence in a child’s life. Every day, you’ll help scholars:

  • Take ownership of their learning through projects, discussions, and hands-on exploration.
  • Build critical thinking, problem-solving, and collaboration skills.
  • Develop confidence and a lifelong love of learning.

Every success in the classroom is a shared victory — for students, families, and teachers alike.

Work hard

Within a Team

At Breakthrough, collaboration drives success. Educators, co-teachers, and leaders work together to create an environment where teachers thrive, scholars succeed, and families feel supported. With personalized coaching and a focus on teamwork, we foster an inclusive environment that promotes academic achievement. Breakthrough is a team of passionate educators and leaders dedicated to creating success stories and supporting your growth as a teacher.

Teamwork at BPS includes:
  • Personalized coaching on lesson planning, instruction, and classroom management.
  • Cohort-based learning experiences to refine your craft alongside peers.
  • A shared commitment to high expectations, strong relationships, and student success.

Co-teaching and intervention specialists ensure every scholar receives the attention and support they need — and every teacher has the guidance to grow.

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You'll build

A Career Path

At Breakthrough, teaching is leadership. For those seeking school leadership opportunities, we provide training and pathways to help you grow. Whether you want to continue teaching or take on new roles, such as shaping school culture or driving academic initiatives, the opportunities are there. Our frequent professional development ensures you have the skills and support to take the next step in your career.

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Opportunities include:
  • Leadership roles like Dean, Instructional Coach, or School Leader.
  • Professional development to enhance your instructional skills and impact.
  • Competitive compensation and benefits programs.
  • Loan forgiveness programs for eligible educators.
  • A culture that promotes internal growth — because the best leaders know our scholars best.

They're little, but they're learning. They're learning to be their own person, and that can definitely get challenging, so I rely on my co-teacher a lot. My co-teacher, with whom I have been working for five years now, is truly one and the same. We have the same philosophy of education and beliefs, and we truly want our classroom to feel like a family. And even when the craziest things happen in our classroom, I know she has my back.

Ms. Myers

2nd Grade Teacher, Woodland Hills

Teaching at Breakthrough is life-changing, empowering, and rewarding. It is an opportunity to work with interesting and diverse people. Teaching at Breakthrough is purposeful, joyful, intense, and exciting. It takes a lot of hard work and determination. It's revolutionary.

Breakthrough Teachers

If you want to stay in the classroom, the opportunity is there. The opportunity is there if you want to get out of the classroom and try something new. The frequency of our professional development and the skills we learn during it are helping us see what the opportunities are, whether it's becoming a dean and focusing strictly on instruction or focusing on school culture.

Ms. Hansberry

General Education Teacher, Glenville

What I like most about our administration is that we receive a lot of coaching. They come in, not to catch you, not to say, oh, you're doing this wrong, you're doing this wrong, to help you grow as a teacher. They're coming in to see what you did right and to help you expand on that and maybe pick up the things that you could be doing a little bit better. They model for us how we work with our scholars.

We are trained to see the good in our scholars, to see how good they are and where they can get better. 

Mr. Kimmit

2nd Grade Teacher, Cliffs

It's the pipeline that we want to develop that we want to keep and grow our own people because the people who know our kids best are the ones who are with them every day; they know the needs and wants and where we want to take the school long term, and I think it is a massive testament to our organization. There is a pathway to continue to grow in your roles here. 

Dan Balmert

Willard
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A strong foundation

For All Scholars

A strong, exceptional scholar education program is essential to our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion at Breakthrough Public Schools. We prioritize inclusive settings for all scholars and provide a tiered support structure to help intervention specialists make a meaningful impact. Our principals, many with special education backgrounds, understand the role's unique challenges and offer valuable support. Compliance managers assist with IEPs, guidance, and curriculum training, ensuring intervention specialists have the resources to help scholars grow and thrive.

Breakthrough schools are designed to help students thrive:

  • Safe, structured, and joyful classrooms that balance rigor with care.
  • Social-emotional learning is embedded in everyday life through programs like Character Strong and Compass Circles.
  • Clubs, sports, and enrichment opportunities, including robotics, chess, Girls on the Run, coding, and community partnerships like Modigo Engineering, Open Doors Academy, and Rainey Institute.
  • Innovative learning experiences like the Verizon Innovative Learning Lab for middle schoolers (coding, robotics, VR/AR, and geospatial exploration).

 

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We have a cohort of intervention Specialists; a team of people will meet with us weekly and help us become better intervention Specialists through coaching videos through scaffolding; they show us better methods that are being introduced to the world that we can use in the classroom we're not on our own to figure out how to be an intervention specialist there's a whole team behind us.

Maazin Ahmed

Intervention Specialist, Southeast
Learn why

Teachers Thrive at Breakthrough

Bring your passion, creativity, and belief in what’s possible — and we’ll give you the tools, support, and team to make it happen.

  • Culture of Care: Build strong, lasting relationships with students and families.
  • Structured Support: Coaching, co-teaching, and clear systems create a thriving classroom.
  • Professional Growth: Develop your career with targeted professional development.
  • Financial Support: Competitive pay, benefits, and loan forgiveness options.
  • Real Impact: Shape the lives of scholars every day.
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Support at Breakthrough

Breakthrough Public Schools is reinvigorating the educational system in Cleveland, and we are looking for teachers committed to urban education to join our network. All of our schools have strong, vibrant school cultures where everyone is held to the highest expectations.

School Operations

We rely on our School-Based Support Teams to provide valuable and essential support to ensure the smooth operation of our schools so that our instructional staff are able to maximize student learning and achievement.

Network Office

Our Network Office Team provides strategic and administrative support including Human Capital, Information Technology and Student Recruitment & Enrollment.

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We’re growing, we’re hiring, and we need the best talent for our students.

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