Systems Leadership for Math Improvement

Educational leaders need new approaches to support teaching that both engages students in rich learning and disrupts practices that create barriers to success for students of color, students from low income households, emergent bilingual students, and students from other historically marginalized groups. In the field of mathematics teaching, this means creating classrooms in which students from diverse backgrounds see themselves as competent mathematicians, equipped with strategies to solve meaningful problems.

We believe that educational leaders play a key role in transforming school systems with racial justice and instructional quality in mind. Strong principals, coaches, teacher-leaders, and central office leaders expand students’ learning opportunities by connecting with communities, re-imagining how schools and districts work, and supporting teachers to learn and implement ambitious and equitable instructional practices in their classrooms.