Strategic Planning Services
Mathematize, Inc. partners with schools, districts, organizations, and learning communities to design strategic plans that are actionable, sustainable, and grounded in meaningful learning experiences. Our strategic planning services support leaders in aligning vision, values, and practice ensuring initiatives translate into real impact for educators, learners, and communities.
Rooted in deep expertise in mathematics education, instructional design, and experiential learning, Mathematize approaches strategic planning as a collaborative and reflective process, not a one-size-fits-all solution. We work alongside stakeholders to identify priorities, surface strengths, and co-create a roadmap that honors local contexts while advancing long-term goals.
Collaborative Visioning & Goal Setting
We facilitate inclusive planning sessions that engage leaders, educators, and community partners in clarifying shared purpose, defining success, and establishing measurable, mission-aligned goals.
Instructional and Programmatic Alignment
Mathematize helps organizations align curriculum, professional learning, and instructional practices with research-informed approaches that support deep understanding, engagement, and learner agency.
Actionable Roadmaps
We translate vision into practice by supporting the development of clear action steps, timelines, and accountability structures that teams can realistically implement and sustain over time.
Place-Based & Culturally Responsive Planning
We recognize that effective strategy must reflect local communities, cultures, and strengths. Our planning process integrates place-based and culturally responsive principles to support authentic, relevant learning experiences.
Capacity Building for Leaders and Educators
Strategic planning with Mathematize builds internal capacity—equipping leaders and educators with tools, frameworks, and shared language to adapt, refine, and lead initiatives long after the planning process concludes.
Who This Is For
- School and district leadership teams
- Tribal, rural, and community-based education organizations
- Instructional initiatives and grant-funded projects
- Nonprofits and learning organizations seeking clarity, alignment, and impact
Our Approach
Mathematize brings an experiential, learner-centered mindset to strategic planning, modeling the same practices we advocate for in learning environments. Our work emphasizes reflection, agency, and collaboration—ensuring strategic plans are not only visionary, but owned and sustained by the people who carry them forward.
Standards-based Instruction Training
Time: 3-5 Full Days
Audience: Teachers, Interventionists, Coaches, SPED teachers
This interactive workshop provides the foundation for integrating standards-based instruction into teacher classroom practice. Strategies for developing rigorous problems and activities for grades PreK-12 are discussed, reviewed, and practiced with students. This includes the use, modification, and supplementation of standard textbook-based approaches, state standard curricular resources, site and culture-based resources, and Common Core modules. Teacher content knowledge is expanded and developed around alternative algorithms, invented procedures, and non-standard mathematical reasoning, along with techniques for open ended inquiry.
Culturally Responsive Strategies for Mathematics Instruction
Time: 60-90 Minutes
Audience: Teachers, tutors, support staff, administrators
Handouts: Yes
Video: No
This presentation highlights the connection between recent instructional reform efforts and Native American pedagogy. How do community-based teaching principles compare to research-based instructional strategies? For example, most tribes in the United States have rich oral traditions that still affect how children learn. Consequently, many Native American children are auditory learners who understand math concepts better when they are presented indirectly, in interesting and engaging contexts. Direct, textbook-based instruction that emphasizes procedure and practice is often ineffective with Native American children as a result. Reform-based efforts to improve teaching like Cognitively Guided Instruction, NCTM’s Process Standards, and Common Core’s Standards of Mathematical Practice are consistent with Native American pedagogy and are therefore culturally responsive.
Integrating Standards of Mathematical Practice
Time: 60-75 Minutes
Audience: Teachers (including Special Education), Paraprofessionals
Handouts: Yes
Video: Yes
For teachers in states that have adopted Common Core State Standards, there is still much confusion about how these learning objectives differ from previous versions. More importantly, school districts across the country are faced with the problem of implementing Standards of Mathematical Practice into classroom instruction. This workshop examines the integration of practice standards through video footage and student work. Participants analyze student misconceptions and how these influence instructional decisions. Participants also discuss the effects of essential questions, small and whole group instruction, and high order reasoning on mathematics achievement. Strategies for integrating practice standards in K-12 classrooms are presented along with information about further professional learning opportunities for teachers.
Wigwametry: Culturally Responsive Curriculum
Time: 90-120 minutes
Audience: Math Teachers, Elementary Teachers, Math Tutors
Video: Yes
Handouts: Yes
This session focuses on the development, assessment, and analysis of community-based curricular materials. Participants will discuss modules for culturally appropriate and rigorous projects, lessons, and activities. These modules are demonstrated as participants build scale structures of traditional Ojibwe homes and explore the geometric concepts of circumference, pi, circular area, and spherical volume. Culturally responsive curriculum increases student engagement and learner understanding through hands-on and tactile learning tasks. Community-based curriculum also promotes relevant and purposeful contexts for students to explore otherwise-abstract concepts.