Ep457: Don’t Let March Kill Your Momentum: When Planning for Next Year Hurts This Year

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It’s March. The weather is shifting. Spring break is coming. And quietly, many math leaders have already started thinking about next year.

Budgets. Staffing. PD planning. Testing season. Fatigue.

It becomes easy to let this year wind down early—to shift staff meetings to logistics, to soften expectations, to delay the hard work until September. But when we ease off the gas in March, we slow the math improvement flywheel we’ve worked all year to build.

In This Episode, You’ll Learn:

Why March fatigue leads math leaders to prematurely shift into “next year mode”

How easing off math improvement work now disrupts momentum for September

What “keep the math flywheel turning” actually means in practice

Why unrelenting focus (not more initiatives) protects system coherence

How budget pressures and staffing changes make systems even more important

What finishing strong really looks like for math leaders

Ask yourself: What does finishing strong mean in my role?

Keep one foot in next year—but don’t lift the other foot out of this year just yet.