As district leaders, you play a critical role in ensuring the successful implementation of InsightMath across multiple campuses. By establishing consistent assessment practices, building principal capacity, and creating structures for cross-campus collaboration, you can leverage the program's rich assessment data to drive continuous improvement. This guide outlines key strategies for supporting principals in using InsightMath's assessment system to improve mathematics instruction and student outcomes district-wide.
Establish District-Wide Assessment Systems
- Create consistent expectations for using InsightMath assessment components across all schools.
- Develop district assessment calendars that align with campus instructional pacing.
- Guide principals in establishing protocols for collecting and analyzing student performance data.
- Coordinate cross-campus benchmark assessments to enable meaningful comparisons.
Develop Principal Data Leadership Capacity
- Train principals in analyzing InsightMath assessment data through an instructional lens.
- Model effective data meetings that focus on student thinking rather than just correct/incorrect answers.
- Help principals identify patterns in assessment data that reveal implementation strengths and challenges.
- Provide structured protocols principals can use with their teacher teams to analyze student work.
Facilitate Cross-Campus Data Analysis
- Host regular data discussions where principals share and compare assessment results.
- Guide principals in identifying implementation factors that contribute to performance differences.
- Create opportunities for campuses to learn from each other's successes and challenges.
- Support collaborative problem-solving when similar data patterns emerge across schools.
Support Strategic Response Planning
- Help principals develop data-informed action plans for mathematics instruction.
- Guide principals in targeting resources toward specific student groups or content areas.
- Ensure intervention approaches maintain the visual-first, conceptual emphasis of InsightMath.
- Coach principals in distinguishing between implementation issues and learning gaps.
Connect Classroom Data to District Outcomes
- Help principals see connections between program implementation and district accountability metrics.
- Develop progress monitoring systems that track growth toward district mathematics goals.
- Support principals in using data to advocate for needed resources or support.