by Leila B | Dec 18, 2025 | District Leader Blog Posts, Math Coaching, Professional Development
If you’re leading K–12 math improvement at the district level or school level, you already know the uncomfortable truth: Teachers do the day-to-day work of changing instruction, but school leaders determine whether that change survives. Not because principals need to...
by Jon & Kyle | Dec 5, 2025 | District Leader Blog Posts, Math Coaching, Professional Development
Every district that has successfully built a sustainable math improvement system shares a common realization: real change doesn’t depend on the brilliance of a few leaders at the top—it depends on coherence in the decisions made by dozens or hundreds of leaders...
by Jon & Kyle | Nov 28, 2025 | District Leader Blog Posts, Math Coaching, Professional Development
In early 2023, Christine and the math leadership team in her rural school district found themselves staring down a problem almost every district eventually faces: They were working hard. Their teachers were working hard. Their coaches were working hard. But math...
by Jon & Kyle | Nov 21, 2025 | District Leader Blog Posts, Math Coaching, Professional Development
When you sit with Melissa and Jenifer from a large school district in Missouri, it doesn’t take long to understand why their district has become such a powerful example of what it looks like when “bridges” aren’t roles on a chart, but people in motion. Nothing in...
by Jon & Kyle | Nov 13, 2025 | District Leader Blog Posts, Math Coaching, Professional Development
If you’ve ever led math improvement work, you know how easy it is to lose momentum. A new initiative launches, energy is high, and for a while, it feels like things are moving.But then—turnover happens. Priorities shift. The focus blurs. That’s why, at Make Math...
by Jon & Kyle | Nov 7, 2025 | District Leader Blog Posts, Math Coaching, Professional Development
For many districts, the hardest part of improving math learning isn’t the lack of will — it’s the challenge of getting everyone moving in the same direction. That was the case for a large French-language district in Ontario serving more than 20,000 students. Over the...
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