by Asad Robin | Jul 18, 2026 | District Leader Blog Posts, Math Coaching, Professional Development
Four weeks. Four coaching calls. And finally a district math coordinator — we’ll call her June — said the this part out loud: “I think I might be better at planning than I am at implementing. So I’ve got to get better at implementing.” Most...
by Asad Robin | Jul 12, 2026 | District Leader Blog Posts, Math Coaching, Professional Development
If you’ve ever been the whole math department — the person building the assessments, populating the resource dashboards, running the PD, and answering every teacher’s email — then you’ll recognize the two coordinators at the center of this story....
by Asad Robin | Jul 6, 2026 | District Leader Blog Posts, Math Coaching, Professional Development
If you’ve sat in enough math meetings, you know the math war arguments by heart. One camp wants more conceptual understanding, richer tasks, students reasoning their way to ideas. The other camp, the science of math, wants the algorithms taught cleanly and...
by Asad Robin | Jun 26, 2026 | District Leader Blog Posts, Math Coaching, Professional Development
Most math improvement efforts do not stall because people stop caring. Let’s be clear about that. They stall because your improvement system was never designed to sustain them. Leaders work hard, teachers give their best, and still, at the end of each year,...
by Asad Robin | Jun 20, 2026 | District Leader Blog Posts, Math Coaching, Professional Development
In 1895, a man named Joseph Malins wrote a little poem that has somehow stayed relevant for 130 years. It goes like this. A town sits at the top of a beautiful cliff. The view is gorgeous — and people keep falling off the edge. So the townspeople gather to do...
by Asad Robin | Jun 14, 2026 | District Leader Blog Posts, Math Coaching, Professional Development
You’ve done the workshops. You’ve bought the programs. You’ve built the pacing guides, scheduled the coaching cycles, and launched the new initiative with a strong September push. And yet, somewhere around November, you feel it start to slip. If you...
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