Free Live Webinar
How Direct Instruction Embodies the Science of Learning
Thursday, 2 October 2025, 4:00 PM EST | 9:00 PM BST
Are you seeking research-backed strategies to enhance reading instruction in your school?
Join internationally recognized education expert Dr. Zach Groshell as he reveals how Direct Instruction methodologies align with cutting-edge research in cognitive science and educational psychology.
- Scientific Validation: How Direct Instruction features—sequenced content, scripted lessons, mastery checks—align with cognitive science to optimize student learning and retention
- Leadership Success Factors: The critical administrative elements that separate thriving programs from struggling ones, based on research from successful schools
- Effective Professional Development: Move beyond one-shot training to create continuous development that genuinely improves teacher performance and outcomes
- Classroom-Ready Strategies: Proven techniques including teacher modeling, student engagement methods, and feedback systems that maximize learning while reducing cognitive burden
- Gives students agency over their learning
- Provides students and teachers with immediate, detailed, and legible feedback
- Accurately measures what each student knows, doesn't know, and are ready to learn
- Ensures a mastery rate of more than 90%
- Has helped more than 20 million students at thousands of schools globally
Thursday, 2 October 2025
4:00 PM Toronto | 9:00 PM London
SPEAKER
Dr. Zach Groshell, PhD, is a Seattle-based teacher, instructional coach, and international consultant who helps schools develop research-based instruction.
He is the author of Just Tell Them, hosts the Progressively Incorrect and Direct Instruction podcasts, and specializes in explicit instruction and school improvement.
SPEAKER
Dale P. Johnson is the director of digital innovation for the University Design Institute at Arizona State University. He works with university leaders to develop and implement digital solutions to enable student success. Those efforts have earned him the 2016 Sally M. Johnstone Award from WCET recognizing his thought leadership, excellence in practice, and demonstrated leadership capabilities. In 2018, he was honored by the IMS Global Learning Consortium with an outstanding service award for his leadership of the adaptive courseware community of practice.
Mr. Johnson has spoken on the topic of digital innovation in higher education at more than 30 conferences in the USA, Rwanda, Brazil, South Korea, Singapore, Germany, Mexico, Russia, Norway, Kazakhstan, Portugal, and Vietnam, and led workshops on the subject at numerous universities. He has a bachelor of science in design degree from ASU and a master in public policy degree from Harvard University.
SPEAKER
Dale P. Johnson is the director of digital innovation for the University Design Institute at Arizona State University. He works with university leaders to develop and implement digital solutions to enable student success. Those efforts have earned him the 2016 Sally M. Johnstone Award from WCET recognizing his thought leadership, excellence in practice, and demonstrated leadership capabilities. In 2018, he was honored by the IMS Global Learning Consortium with an outstanding service award for his leadership of the adaptive courseware community of practice.
Mr. Johnson has spoken on the topic of digital innovation in higher education at more than 30 conferences in the USA, Rwanda, Brazil, South Korea, Singapore, Germany, Mexico, Russia, Norway, Kazakhstan, Portugal, and Vietnam, and led workshops on the subject at numerous universities. He has a bachelor of science in design degree from ASU and a master in public policy degree from Harvard University.
SPEAKER
Dale P. Johnson is the director of digital innovation for the University Design Institute at Arizona State University. He works with university leaders to develop and implement digital solutions to enable student success. Those efforts have earned him the 2016 Sally M. Johnstone Award from WCET recognizing his thought leadership, excellence in practice, and demonstrated leadership capabilities. In 2018, he was honored by the IMS Global Learning Consortium with an outstanding service award for his leadership of the adaptive courseware community of practice.
Mr. Johnson has spoken on the topic of digital innovation in higher education at more than 30 conferences in the USA, Rwanda, Brazil, South Korea, Singapore, Germany, Mexico, Russia, Norway, Kazakhstan, Portugal, and Vietnam, and led workshops on the subject at numerous universities. He has a bachelor of science in design degree from ASU and a master in public policy degree from Harvard University.