Make Math Happen
Make Math Happen (formerly known as PD for the SOUL) is the podcast for educators ready to move with intention and teach with impact. Hosted by math coach and equity-focused educator Laneshia Boone, each episode bridges practice and purpose to help you design instruction that centers students, builds capacity, and makes learning stick—especially for those pushed to the margins.
Every week, you’ll get strategies that work in real classrooms, grounded reflections that challenge the status quo, and conversations with educators who are making bold moves in math education. From planning with purpose to using charts that anchor learning, from building strong routines to disrupting expired rules, this podcast is where meaningful math instruction comes to life.
You’ll walk away with ready-to-use tools, fresh insight, and the confidence to make every lesson count.
Because when we move with care, plan with clarity, and teach with courage, we make math happen.
Make Math Happen
Latest Episodes
Modeling Math: What is a Function
Linear functions are major work in middle school mathematics, but before students can graph slope or write equations, they must understand what a function truly represents.In this episode, we trace the vertical development of functional ...
Connecting Math: Where Relationships Meet Functions
How proportional reasoning prepares students for modelingOver the past three months, we’ve built something intentional.Geometry helped students see structure.Number systems helped them understand magnitude.Ratios he...
Connecting Math: Making Proportional Reasoning Visible
Rates, Tables, Tape Diagrams, and the Coordinate PlaneRatios are relationships. But proportional reasoning is what happens when students learn to use those relationships to solve problems.In this episode, we move f...
Connecting Math: Comparing Quantities
Before students can work flexibly with ratios, they must be able to answer a more fundamental question: What exactly are we comparing, and why?In this episode, we zoom in on the core comparison structures that sit beneath ratios...
Connecting Math: Understanding Ratios as Relationships, Not Numbers
Why ratios are about how quantities move togetherThis episode launches our Connecting Math series by reframing ratios as relationships rather than calculations. Instead of treating ratios as fractions or procedures to mem...