by Asad Robin | Oct 2, 2026 | District Leader Blog Posts, Math Coaching, Professional Development
When teachers resist math professional development, it’s rarely about the content. Here’s what five discouraging exit tickets from a high school math department taught us about trust, structure, purpose, and ownership, and the plan we built from them....
by Asad Robin | Sep 20, 2026 | District Leader Blog Posts, Math Coaching, Professional Development
We spend a lot of time with math leaders who oversee 20, 50, and even 200 schools. Nearly every conversation eventually arrives at the same question: how do we get everyone in an entire system to strengthen their math instruction? To be honest. It’s the...
by Asad Robin | Sep 5, 2026 | District Leader Blog Posts, Math Coaching, Professional Development
1. Stop Relaunching Your Math Initiative — Start Compounding. One of my first calls was a brand-new partnership, and I opened it the way I open most of them — with the math improvement flywheel. The work of improving math outcomes isn’t a program you launch....
by Asad Robin | Aug 29, 2026 | District Leader Blog Posts, Math Coaching, Professional Development
You already have a vision statement. It sits at the front of your multi-year math improvement plan — on a slide, maybe on the wall, maybe in a binder that goes to the board. And if you’re honest, it has almost no effect on what actually happens on a Tuesday in...
by Asad Robin | Aug 12, 2026 | District Leader Blog Posts, Math Coaching, Professional Development
A high-functioning K-12 school district was doing the work everywhere — but only in pockets. Here’s the one shift that got 20+ schools paddling in the same direction. If you’d walked into Dana and Marcus’s math work at the start of the year,...
by Asad Robin | Aug 1, 2026 | District Leader Blog Posts, Math Coaching, Professional Development
Why High-Quality Instructional Materials Don’t Improve Outcomes on Their Own You did the hard part. You ran the adoption process, you fought for the budget, you chose high-quality instructional materials that actually deserve the label for your math program. Teachers...
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