This resource offers math activities, planning activities, and a facilitator's guide for developing mathematics leaders' coaching practice and knowledge of math teaching and learning.This resource offers math activities, planning activities, and a facilitator's guide for developing mathematics leaders' coaching practice and knowledge of math teaching and learning.Written case studies of math coaching are essential tools to facilitate the professional development of our mathematics coaches who work hand-in-hand with over 200 schools in our district. We are pleased to have this book developed by Amy Morse and a cadre of math coaches to support our math leadership efforts. This new resource draws on cases of coaching practice to provide grounded opportunities for communities of math coaches to strengthen their practice. It?is an exciting and important resource for anyone responsible for the professional development of math coaches. Foreword by Deborah Schifter Acknowledgments About the Author Introduction 1. Observing, Studying, Analyzing, Planning: Preparing to Coach Case: Moving Between Models Math Activity: Models, Fractions, and Percents Focus Questions Activity 2. Discerning and Responding: Coaching in Real Time Case: Analyzing Multiplication Math Activity: How Do You Know? Focus Questions Activity 3. Strategic Coaching: Goal-Centered Modeling in the Classroom Case: It's 30 Less and 90 More : A Case About Listening to Children's Ideas Math Activity: Angles and Angle Measurement Focus Questions Activity 4. Reaching a New Teacher: Math as the Conduit Case: A Case of Coaching: Multiplication and Division Journal Entries Math Activity: Looking Beneath the Surface Focus Questions ActilĂ