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sincerelyamathstudent, Fairfax, Fairfax, VA (2026)

07/31/2026

Every August, teachers spend time teaching class like:

✔️ How to enter the room.

✔️ Where to turn in work.

✔️ What to do when they're absent.

But not enough math teachers focus on creating the habits of mind that support mathematical thinking.

What if I told you that by October, you could have a classroom full of students who:

🔹️test out multiple strategies before asking for help

🔹️ have lower instances of math anxiety

🔹️persevere through challenging tasks

🔹️respectfully challenge one another's ideas

🔹️believe in their own math capabilities

Those outcomes don't happen by accident.

They are happen when you plan and intentionally build them during the first 30 days of school.

Want to learn how?

Join me for one of the final two FREE sessions of:

The First 30 Days of School: Building a Classroom of Mathematical Thinkers

📅 August 4 @ 7:00 PM (EST)

📅 August 11 @ 4:30 PM (EST)

Link in bio!

07/14/2026

312 teachers.

I know what you are thinking.

"This sounds amazing. But I am already overwhelmed and school hasn't even started yet."

I hear you, but let me be honest with you for a minute...

Everything that I share in this webinar are the things that will make everything else on your plate lighter.

Fact: When students know how to get unstuck, your small groups can engage in rigorous math task without your direct help.

Fact: When students know how to justify their thinking, you'll spend less time reteaching and remediating.

Fact: When students know how to sit with confusion without shutting down, you will spend less time in lecture style math instruction.

I am not asking you to do extra work during the first 30 days of school.

I am asking you to imagine what it would mean to use the first 30 days of school to lay the foundation for the rest of the year.

In 60 minutes, I will show you exactly how to use the time you already have.

Only 3 sessions left. The next one is July 14 at 7pm EST.

Register:
https://www.sincerelyamathstudent.com/first-30-days

Already registered? Check your inbox for your confirmation email and click the link to secure your spot. Don't see it? Check your spam folder.

07/09/2026

POV: You're so deep in your teaching bag that the chat goes completely silent.

So you stop mid-sentence and ask, “Guys... can you hear me? Did I lose you?"

Then the comments start rolling in: "Taking notes!"

That's when you know they're not checked out, they are locked in!

That's the kind of feedback I hope for. Because that tells me people found ideas worth taking back to their schools.

If you joined me this morning, THANK YOU!!

If you missed this morning's session, there are three more opportunities to be in the room.

The First 30 Days of School: Building a Classroom of Mathematical Thinkers

July 14 at 7pm EST
August 4 at 7pm EST
August 11 at 4:30pm EST

📅 Register here: https://www.sincerelyamathstudent.com/first-30-days

Come ready to take notes. 🤣

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07/08/2026

172 math teachers have already reserved their spot!

We are not passively waiting to see how the school year unfolds. We are proactively deciding right now that we will start this year differently.

For the 2026-2027 school year, our students won't just learn to do math, they'll learn how to use mathematical reasoning.

We are determined to build thinkers, not robots.

Our students won't just memorize procedures; they'll develop the confidence to make sense of unfamiliar mathematics long after the first unit is over.

What math teachers do during the first 30 of school will define the classroom culture for the year.

If you're ready to build a classroom of mathematical thinkers from Day 1, join us!

📅 Four free live sessions are available in July and August.

🔗 https://www.sincerelyamathstudent.com/first-30-days

Already registered but haven't received information? Check your inbox for your confirmation email and be sure to click the link inside to secure your spot. If you don't see it, take a quick look in your spam or junk folder.

07/02/2026

Every August, teachers spend time establishing classroom procedures like:

• Where students sit
• How they enter the classroom
• When they can sharpen their pencil
• How they submit their work

Yes, those routines matter.

But if you teach those routines in isolation and then abruptly switch to teaching math content, students miss the opportunity to learn the routines that teach them how to think mathematically.

Which means that by October, you'll be wondering...

"Why do my students shut down the moment something is too hard?"

Or, "Why do they need me to explain every single step?"

These are not motivation problems, these are class culture problems.

And it's exactly what we'll explore in my FREE webinar:

The First 30 Days of School: Building a Classroom of Mathematical Thinkers

We'll explore why you need to intentionally build the reasoning routines, discussion norms, and thinking habits that help students become independent mathematical thinkers from the very beginning of the school year.

📅 Choose from 4 live sessions in July and August.

🔗 The link to register: https://www.sincerelyamathstudent.com/first-30-days

06/17/2026

Contrary to popular opinion, class observationsshould be used to measure what students understood during the lesson, not just what the teacher did during the lesson.

Those are not the same data points, and only one of them predicts Spring state assessment results.

The fix is not a new observation form.

The fix is not more walkthroughs.

The fix is aligning what your leadership team observes to what the assessment actually measures.

Here is what math specific observation evidence looks like:

❌️Instead of: “Students spent 35 minutes engaged in a math task.”

✅️Look for: The type of questions students ask while engaged in the task.

(“What are supposed to do?” vs. “Wait, why does that work and not this?”)

❌️Instead of: “The teacher is implementing the HQIM with fidelity.”

✅️Look for: How the teacher uses the HQIM to provide student access to grade level content. (“I used the activity as written.” vs “The resource told me what to teach, not how.”)

❌️Instead of: The class environment is orderly and productive.

✅️Look for: How well the learning environment promotes student movement that yields deep learning. (Visiting the pencil sharpener vs Grabbing manipulatives)

The difference between those two lists is the difference between observing for compliance and observing for reasoning.

How does your leadership team approach class observations in math classrooms?

06/13/2026

If you missed the last free virtual summit, join me for the 2026 Summer Math Summit.

Over 20K math teachers, Pre-K through 12th grade, have already registered!

This time, I'm addressing the myths around differentiated instruction.

The expectation that math teachers can create 30 different versions of one lesson is unsustainable, and not at all what students actually need.

Differentiation does NOT mean individualized instruction.

I'm teaching you how one task can be used to reach all the thinking styles in a classroom, without adding more prep or more time to teachers full plate.

Register for free and join a community of math teachers who are flipping impossible expectations into practical approaches to raising math achievement.

https://summermathsummit.com?bg_ref=kUOuMT4za6&utm_source=Nakasha%20Kirkland

06/09/2026

Day 2 of the summit and I am holding space with some of my favorite math leaders!!

We are sharing routines that will get your students engaged in rich mathematics.

Claim your free ticket using the link in my bio!

06/03/2026

The number one blindspot I see in math instruction right now?
Leadership teams that wait for end of year assessment data to reveal what classroom observations could have exposed months earlier.

All because most observation forms check for teacher behaviors, not student reasoning.

Here is what that cycle looks like in practice:

📅 August/September — Teachers receive training and begin implementing the new HQIM. Leaders schedule formal evaluations and conduct initial walkthroughs. Everything looks aligned.

📅October/November — Unit assessment data start to reveal instructional inconsistencies across classrooms and subgroups. Observations confirm that all teachers are using the HQIM, so team planning increases focus on how specific teachers can better use the resource.

📅December/January/February — The gap between what students understand and what teachers assume they understand widens. Observations continue to monitor implementation of HQIM, but the leadership team knows where poor instruction is taking place and wonder “why won't they just use the resource?”

📅March/April — Leaders continue observing. Teachers continue teaching. The observation system continues to search for evidence of compliance instead of evidence of student thinking. The gap compounds.

📅May — The state assessment arrives and the scores do not reflect the expertise or the effort.

But here is the truth:

The story was being written in October.

Those small gaps were actually large chasms the whole time. And a better observation system would have empowered leaders to act sooner.

Most observation systems are designed to keep administrators passive.

They were built to document teacher performance, not to monitor whether students are building mathematical reasoning across every classroom every week.

That is a system problem.

But here is the part that requires tough love:

💡 The system will not fix itself in August when the new school year starts.

💡It will not fix itself because you hired a new teacher.

💡And it will not fix itself because you adopted a new curriculum.

✔️ It fixes itself when leadership teams deliberately build an observation system that uses informal observations as a proactive monitoring tool that exposes instructional patterns before the assessment does.

That window is right now. Not August. Now.

Because May 2027 is already being shaped by what you build this summer.

The question is not whether your observation system failed you this year. For most buildings it did.

The question is what you are going to do about it before August arrives again.

05/31/2026

The secret is out!

I’m speaking at the first ever Math Intervention Summit! 📣

Join me June 8-10 as we navigate the path to student confidence and motivation. I’ll be teaching you how a few sense-making strategies that will foster proportional reasoning so you can become the gatebreaker your students need.

Don't hike alone—sign up for free!!🥾⛰️

https://www.collaboratedwithjuliana.com/summit

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