Our approach
Each partner is paired with a coach who brings deep expertise in math content, pedagogy, strategic planning, and adult learning. Our coaches work alongside school teams to:
Develop Vision-Driven Math Leadership
We guide leadership teams to:
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Reflect on beliefs about math, students, and learning
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Create a math vision and conduct a root cause analysis
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Set goals, create and implement plans, monitor progress, and adjust based on data
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Engage stakeholders with the math vision and strategic plan
Develop a School Math Culture Lead (SMCL)
We build the capacity of the SMCL to:
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Cultivate productive beliefs about math teaching and learning
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Support the math vision to live through school structures and practices
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Create and carry out math strategic plan
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Design and facilitate coaching cycles
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Design and facilitate PL
Develop Lab Teacher(s)
We build the capacity of Lab Teachers to:
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Cultivate productive beliefs about math teaching and learning
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Skillfully facilitate vision-aligned instructional practices
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Grow their pedagogical content knowledge
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Host labsites for colleagues and support school-wide PL
Facilitate Impactful Professional Learning
We collaborate with the SMCL to :
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Align professional learning goals to the math strategic plan
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Design and facilitate a sequence of math professional learning for pilot or full school
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Support teacher implementation and reflection between PL.
Our goal is to work ourselves out of a job — empowering your team to lead this work long after we’re gone.
“My math coach supported my ability to think flexibly and creatively about systems for math instruction and to lead with purpose. They helped our school develop a strategic plan and school-wide systems that have transformed our math instruction and mindsets about math for adults AND kids.”
"My coach helped me take my ideas of coaching that I didn't even quite know how to word yet into actionable steps that helped me accomplish my goals. She did this by deeply listening and guiding me through various practices and resources."
"This is probably the best professional development I've ever received. I appreciate the options in levels of coaching - co-teach, lead, meet and review, etc. It can be stressful to allow a new person into your classroom to watch you teach, but over time it becomes easier. I credit my coach for this because he makes the lesson and review feel like a partnership."
Measure What Matters
We care most about how students think—not just what they get right. Our goal is for every student to build conceptual understanding, procedural fluency, problem-solving skill, and mathematical agency. That’s why our coaching and progress monitoring center on student thinking—analyzing classroom discourse and culture, student work, and instructional practice to drive meaningful change.
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As a result, students grow as mathematical thinkers, teachers deepen their content knowledge and pedagogy, and schools cultivate inclusive, engaging math cultures that drive measurable growth on both formative benchmarks and state assessments.
Tool spotlight: Looking at Student Work Protocol
What do they understand?
What are they making sense of?
