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...
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,...
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