Modernize Math.
We help school systems create joyful, rigorous, and coherent math instruction where every student learns to think deeply, reason confidently, and solve problems that matter with predictability.
Why Math Matters More Than Ever
Mathematics is far more than procedures — it’s a way of making sense of the world. It fuels innovation, logical thinking, and the ability to navigate complexity. When students experience the power and joy of mathematical thinking, they build skills that unlock future-ready opportunities.
The Challenge
College and career readiness standards require educators to significantly narrow and deepen how time and energy are spent in the math classroom. Meeting these needs requires new, consistent teaching approaches. Even with strong curricula in place, many schools and systems still struggle with the following challenges:
Inconsistent instructional quality
Even within the same school, students receive dramatically different math experiences. Some engage in productive struggle and discourse; others complete worksheet-style tasks with limited reasoning and discourse opportunities.
Gaps in teacher content and pedagogical knowledge
Many elementary educators feel underprepared for fractions, ratios, and early algebra. Secondary teachers may be teaching out-of-field due to shortages. These gaps make it harder to diagnose misconceptions and support deep understanding.
Fragmented or event-based professional learning
Teachers rarely get time to study content, rehearse lessons, or analyze student work. Most PD is disconnected from curriculum and practice — leaving teachers to figure things out on their own.
Leadership teams without clear math look-fors
Leaders want to support teachers, but many have not been taught what high-quality math instruction actually looks and sounds like in practice. They lack tools to observe, diagnose, and coach effectively.
Disjointed systems and initiatives
When strategy, materials, PD, and coaching are not aligned, improvement stalls — regardless of how hard people work.
How We Help
What Leaders Want — and Deserve
Over the past 14 years of supporting system improvement, we’ve heard many leaders say:
- “We invested in HQIM, but instruction still looks inconsistent.”
- “Teachers are trying, but they don’t feel confident in the math.”
- “Our data tells us something is off, but it doesn’t tell us why.”
- “We need shared routines, shared language, and a shared vision.”
Your team is doing everything it can. But the system itself may not yet be built to support the level of math expertise that today’s standards demand. We can help.
We partner with district and school teams to strengthen math strategy, professional learning, and classroom practice through a coherent, curriculum-connected approach. Since 2016, our partner schools have improved math achievement by 8 to 34 percent, outpacing growth in similar schools.
Our Math Support Model
Our guiding belief: Programs come and go. Systems stay. We help leaders and educators solve the right problems through a series of interconnected supports:
System Advising & Math Diagnostics
Build clarity on the strengths, gaps, and highest-leverage opportunities in your current math strategy. We help you answer:
- What’s happening in classrooms?
- What’s driving those patterns?
- What should leaders and teachers focus on next?
- How do we sequence the work to make progress possible?
Leadership Development & Coaching
Equip school and system leaders with:
- Clear observation look-fors for math instruction
- Practical tools to support teachers using your HQIM
- Coaching routines that build skill and confidence
- The ability to lead PLCs and math-focused improvement cycles
Leaders learn what excellent math teaching looks like — and how to support it consistently.
Curriculum-based Professional Learning
We deliver job-embedded, practice-based learning aligned to your HQIM. Topics include:
- Launching productive math discourse
- Modeling conceptual understanding
- Strategic scaffolding for diverse learners
- Planning & enacting focus, coherence, and rigor
- Small-group instruction aligned to the unit
- Rehearsal + feedback cycles
Teachers learn how to enact lessons that build conceptual understanding, procedural fluency, and real-world application — not just get through the materials.
Continuous Improvement & Data Strategy
We help teams build routines to learn from instruction, student work, and classroom evidence:
- Student work protocols
- Short improvement cycles
- Evidence-based adjustment plans
The goal: Use real evidence to guide where to go next.
Supporting HQIM Implementation in Los Angeles
Leading Educators has partnered with the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) to strengthen math instruction across subsequent cohorts of 20+ schools for the past four years, helping educators implement Illustrative Mathematics (IM) and ensure all students experience knowledge-rich math instruction.
We know great practice. We get lasting results.
We bring national experience in strengthening math practices and leadership in various contexts, having supported the use of Eureka Math, Open Up Resources 6–8, IM 6–8, McGraw-Hill IM, and other resources.
We know exactly where lessons tend to break down—and how to fix them. Our focus on the details of teaching and learning has yielded one of the strongest records of impact in the field. Supported schools have improved 8 to 34 percent more than similar schools with ESSA Tier 3 or higher evidence.
Get perspectives on sustainable math improvement.
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If you’re ready to bring clarity, coherence, and powerful math learning to your system, we’re ready to work shoulder-to-shoulder with you.
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