If you’ve ever felt like your school or district is stuck in a cycle of starting fresh each year without real, lasting improvement in math teaching and learning, you’re not alone. Too often, ambitious plans dissolve into disconnected actions. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
At Make Math Moments, we partner with schools and districts across North America to implement a sustainable, research-informed math improvement system that drives real results. In this post, we’ll walk you through a high-level overview of the four-stage system behind our School and District Math Improvement Program—and how we help districts design, implement, and sustain powerful change.
A System That Strengthens Your Entire Math Program
Our approach centers around six components of effective mathematics instruction. Think of these components as the roots and branches of a healthy tree—when they’re strong and in alignment, math learning thrives across your schools. Rather than tackling isolated issues, our program reinforces the entire structure of your math program for long-term impact.
The goal? A self-sustaining improvement cycle that continues to grow even after our partnership ends.
The Flywheel Framework: Four Stages of Lasting Math Improvement
We guide our district partners through a proven four-stage process. Here’s a look at how it works:
Stage 1: Design & Measure
Before we can move forward, we help you define what you’re aiming for.
- Build a Vision for Math Learning: Through guided activities and collaborative support, we help your leadership team craft a unified vision for mathematics—a 5-to-10-year outlook rooted in clarity and ambition. Your vision becomes the north star for every action moving forward.
- Set Objectives and Key Results: Using research-backed frameworks (including NCTM’s Principles to Actions), we help you identify a few high-leverage objectives and measurable key results. These become the backbone of your improvement plan.
- Create Your Dashboard: You’ll walk away with an actionable plan and dashboard that tracks your progress across short-term and long-term goals—so you’re never left wondering if your work is making an impact.
- Choose the Right Metrics: We guide you to select meaningful measures—not just what’s easy to count. With walkthrough tools, templates, and coaching, you’ll develop evidence systems that inform and inspire action.
Stage 2: Optimize & Sustain PD Structures
Professional development can be one of your most powerful levers for change—but only when it’s aligned and intentionally designed.
- Coordinate Teacher Learning Systems: We help you redesign large-scale PD, PLCs, coaching, and collaborative time so they’re all working toward your math improvement goals—not just covering logistics or pacing.
- Build PD Around the Right Math: Our support includes planning for conceptual understanding, fluency strategies, and curricular alignment—so that PD time is spent moving math teaching forward.
- Apply Research-Based Coordination: We lean on best-in-class frameworks to guide how learning structures interact and reinforce one another across your system.
Stage 3: Build Instructional Capacity
Once the vision and structures are in place, it’s time to grow teacher expertise.
- Deepen Math Content Knowledge: We focus on the essential math concepts and pedagogical moves your teachers need most—tailored to grade levels and district goals.
- Support Coaches and Facilitators: Whether you have TOSAs, instructional coaches, or district facilitators, we help train and equip them to lead this work at scale.
- Align PD with Daily Practice: Everything we support in this stage connects back to your system’s goals, PLC time, and the practical realities of teachers’ classrooms.
Stage 4: Inspire Growth & Create Sustainability
Too often, districts depend on external support without building the internal strength needed to sustain change. We solve that.
- Leverage Bright Spots: We help you identify and spotlight the teachers and schools already doing great work—then use their success to inspire and mentor others.
- Develop Future Leaders: Sustainability means building internal leadership. We support you in growing the next generation of math leaders so that improvement continues beyond our partnership.
- Keep the Flywheel Turning: Our system is designed to be self-sustaining. Once installed, your district can continuously cycle through setting goals, aligning structures, building capacity, and leveraging growth—without needing long-term external help.
How We Support Your School or District
Throughout your partnership, you’ll receive support through:
- One-on-one coaching meetings
- Asynchronous access to our Roadmap to Math Improvement course
- Monthly mastermind group calls with district leaders across North America
- Slack channels and instant messaging with our team
- Downloadable dashboards, templates, walkthrough tools, and pacing guides
We’re not just helping you build a plan—we’re helping you build a system that lives inside your district and drives change year after year.
The Make Math Moments School and District Improvement Program isn’t a one-time PD event or a pre-packaged curriculum. It’s a comprehensive, flexible system that builds internal capacity and aligns every layer of your district’s math program for long-term success.
Whether you’re just starting out or ready to accelerate your district’s math improvement journey, we’re here to walk with you—step by step, system by system.
Want to learn how this program can support your district?
Reach out and book a call with our team to explore how we can help you create a sustainable, aligned, and effective math improvement plan.