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Making Math Moments That Matter
Helping you transform your K-12 math lesson plans by building confidence in effective teaching practices, guiding you to transform your math curriculum, and inspiring classroom strategies to engage all students. As a teacher are you wondering how to create K-12 math lesson plans where students...
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When Fidelity in Math Improvement Turns Into Rigidity & How To Avoid This Costly Mistake
Implementing with fidelity matters—whether it’s adopting a new math resource, embedding a routine like number talks, or structuring PLCs. But fidelity...
How to Sequence Math Tasks: Thin Slicing in BTC Explained by Peter Liljedahl and Kyle Webb
How do you move your students from confusion to confidence—one question at a time when Building Thinking Classrooms?
If you've ever found yourse...
When Tools Steal Thinking: Rethinking Technology Use in Math
In this episode, we dig into the tricky question every math teacher faces: When is a calculator a helpful tool—and when does it actually rob students...
Going Narrow in Math Improvement: A Practical Playbook from One District
Math improvement plans don’t gain traction just by naming priorities—they gain traction when districts commit to going narrow. For one small district,...
Fear, Pressure, and the Struggle to Truly Commit to Math Priorities
District math improvement plans can’t succeed if we try to do everything at once. For meaningful change to happen, leaders need to go narrow.
In...
Beating Initiative Fatigue: How to Filter Math PD Opportunities without Overwhelm
Do you ever feel torn between staying laser-focused on your math goals and chasing all the new opportunities that come your way?
Whether it’s a...
How AI Can Help Math Teachers Differentiate Instruction for Every Learner
How can math teachers harness AI to lighten their workload, differentiate with confidence, and boost student thinking—without losing the human touch?<...
Why Systemic Change in Math Fails Without the Right Bridges in Place
What does it look like to build Bridges in real time?
In this episode, we highlight the story of a district leader who knows she can’t do the wo...
Why Math Improvement Efforts Stall Without Clear Bridges
District math objectives can’t live on a slide deck. For change to happen, they need Bridges—the leaders who translate vision into action at the schoo...
How Time Debt Is Derailing Your Math Leadership Goals
Are you letting daily emergencies steal time from what really matters in your role as a math leader?
From a soaked teenager's phone to the all-t...
How To Teach Multi-Digit Multiplication
In this episode, we explore why multi-digit multiplication continues to be the thorn in so many teachers’ sides. We talk about why sometimes we need t...
Making Math Progress Visible: The B+ Approach to School Math Improvement
Are your district's math improvement plans stuck in “waiting for perfect”? What if aiming for B+ work could unlock real progress—right now?
Too...
Rich Tasks vs. Gradual Release: Do We Have to Choose?
One of the most frequent questions we hear from district and school math leaders is:
“How do I convince math educators to shift from always usin...
Why District Math Plans Fall Flat Without School-Level Action
Too often, district math improvement planning happens “up there,” with big visions and system-wide goals that don’t trickle down into meaningful chang...
It’s Not Either-Or: Building a Math Classroom That Has It All
A teacher asked us a fair question: “If direct instruction and practice are working, why change?
While presenting at a recent conference, we wer...
From Lofty to Laser-Focused: Unpacking One District’s Math Improvement Plan
In this episode, we share how one district is entering the new school year with a sharper focus in their Math District Improvement Plan. In the past,...
Building a Math Culture with Board Games: Standards for Mathematical Practice in Action
Looking to build a positive math culture at the start of the school year? In this episode, we dive into why board games are more than just fun—they’re...
Building Coherence Between Math Coaches, Principals, and Teachers
This episode is a debrief of the article Coaching for Coherence: How Instructional Coaches Lead Change in the Evaluation Era by Woulfin & Rigby (2017)...
Teaching Math with the Brain in Mind: Insights from Liesl McConchie
Are your students' math struggles rooted in what they know—or how they feel about math?
If your math learners seem disengaged, anxious, or convi...
7 Math Coaching Questions That Transform Teacher Conversations
If you’ve ever walked out of a math coaching session wondering whether you made an impact, you’re not alone. Many instructional coaches step into the...
Visual Patterns That Lead to Algebra: Designing Math Tasks That Surface Student Thinking
Are we underestimating what young math learners can do with algebra — just because they’re young?
If you've ever watched a student skip the reas...
How to Define The Right Milestones That Drive Math Improvement
In this episode, Jon Orr and Yvette Lehman unpack the difference between long-term objectives and short-term key results. Through a real coaching conv...
What If the Report Card Doesn’t Match the Math You’re Seeing?
It’s early in the school year. You’re reviewing student math work and noticing some red flags—math concepts that should be solid just aren’t there. Bu...
Turn Your Next Book Talk into a Book Do: The Shift That Changes Everything
Book talks have become a popular way to spark professional learning, but in many cases, they don’t go far enough to create real change—especially in m...
How To Help Students Choose the Right Math Operation
It’s a familiar challenge— when it comes to deciding which math operation to use, students get stuck. In this episode, we explore one of the often ove...
How Impactful Is Math Coaching?
Is your math coaching program truly transforming classroom practice—or just treading water?
Many districts wrestle with whether coaching is wort...
When Math Curriculum Alignment Feels Like a Threat to Your Autonomy
Is it possible for teachers to have both autonomy in their math classroom and alignment with district goals? In this episode, we challenge the idea th...
How to Lead Math PD Without False Authority
In this episode, we reflect on a challenge many math leaders face: the risk of presenting ourselves with false authority. Whether we’re facilitating p...
The Math Screener Struggle Is Real | Why & How To Use Math Screeners With Impact
Math Screeners… Diagnostics… Assessments… It’s easy to get lost in the language of math data. In this episode, we unpack the similarities and differen...
Leading Without Authority: How Coaches Can Activate Math Leadership in Schools
We know school administrators play a crucial role in driving long-term math improvement—but what happens when you're a coach or teacher leader trying...
Boost Math Participation & Discourse with These Simple Math Routines
Fresh from the 2025 NCTE-NCTM conference in Chicago, our team reflects on one powerful math instructional routine that stood out—an approach that spar...
From Passive to Powerful: Transforming the Principal's Role in Math Leadership
We know principals are busy—constantly managing urgent issues and putting out fires. But we also know this: school-level change is the most powerful l...
Small Summer Shifts That Set You Up for a Better Math Focused School Year
The end of the school year can feel like a whirlwind—agitated students, hot classrooms, and a growing list of to-dos. But before rushing into summer,...
Why Principals Must Lead School-Level Change In Mathematics
We know principals are busy—constantly managing urgent issues and putting out fires. But we also know this: school-level change is the most powerful l...
3 Ways to Set Students Up for Summer Math Success | Your Summer Math Program
Summer learning loss in math is real—and it doesn’t affect all students equally. In this episode, we explore how the summer slide disproportionately i...
How To Unpack Math Standards with Teachers: The Strategy Every Math Team Needs
Math curriculums and standards are more ambitious than ever—often asking teachers to cover more than a year's worth of learning in less than 10 months...
Why Your Fact Fluency Fix May Have Failed (So far) & What To Do Next
We were told to move away from flashcards, multiplication drills, and timed tests in math class—and for good reason. These practices didn’t support ma...
Create End of Year Impact | Adopt, Adapt, Abandon For Your Math Program
As the school year winds down, it’s time to reflect—not react on your math impact. In this episode, we dive into one of the most important (and often...
When High Scores Lie: Rethinking How We Assess in Math Class
On a recent coaching call, we spoke with a new teacher who was feeling great about a math quiz her students had just aced—until she wasn’t. The quiz f...
What We Got Wrong (and Right) in Our Last Full-Day Math PD
Planning a full-day professional development session for math can feel like a golden opportunity—and a daunting challenge. How do you make the most of...