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

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Podcast: [Making Math Moments That Matter](https://stenobird.com/podcast/making-math-moments-that-matter-546594)
Published: 2026-03-09T09:00:00+00:00
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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 ...

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