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...
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....
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