by Asad Robin | Nov 14, 2026 | District Leader Blog Posts, Math Coaching, Professional Development
Move the Dots: A Simple Scale for Hondest Math Goal-Setting How two school teams used four words (none, few, many, most) to set honest math goals for productive disposition and student reasoning, and then figured out what would move the dots. Two Teams, Two Goals, One...
by Asad Robin | Oct 30, 2026 | District Leader Blog Posts, Math Coaching, Professional Development
A coaching story about building productive struggle in math one small teacher move at a time, and what happened when teachers led the change. The Best Part Was Who Gave the Update This past week, Beth and I visited one of our school partners. We had first been there...
by Asad Robin | Oct 19, 2026 | District Leader Blog Posts, Math Coaching, Professional Development
Learn What a Healthy Math PLC Looks Like in One School First When a state math team asked its regional leads how professional learning reaches classrooms, it found that everyone pictured a professional learning community differently, and that discovery turned out to...
by Asad Robin | Oct 11, 2026 | District Leader Blog Posts, Math Coaching, Professional Development
Stop Trying to Move Everyone: Why Bright Spots Win Where should a math instructional coach focus when some teachers won’t budge? One K-8 district’s answer: build your bright spots instead of pushing harder. Our monthly check-in with a K-8 district’s...
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...
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