"Show me the data."
- Wesley Becker
Education:
B.A. (Hons) English & Creative Writing, Royal Holloway, University of London (2017)
Years of DI Experience: 5
Jon Owen is a UK-based Direct Instruction consultant and trainer supporting primary and secondary schools to implement DI reading, mathematics, and writing programmes. He began his career as a mathematics teacher in Kent, where he was also Head of Computer Science, and first taught with DI in 2021, delivering Corrective Mathematics. He went on to coach DI teachers at Astrea Academy Trust, then spent two years as DI coach, trainer, and teacher across Athena Learning Trust in Devon.
At Athena, the implementations he supported saw EYFS Good Level of Development in maths rise from 65% to 95% in a single year, and secondary students' reading ages improve by an average of 2.5 years in one year, with one site making 3.5 years' progress.
Jon now works with NIFDI supporting the City of London Academies Trust's DI implementation across its secondary schools, covering Corrective Reading, Connecting Math Concepts, Expressive Writing, and Essentials for Writing. He delivers NIFDI training in the UK, including Corrective Reading Decoding and Comprehension, Essentials for Writing, and Corrective Mathematics. He is trained in Corrective Reading Decoding (A, B1/B2, C), Corrective Mathematics (Addition, Subtraction), Connecting Math Concepts B–E, DISTAR Arithmetic I and Reading Mastery Signature Edition Reading and Language K, and has attended the NIFDI Training, Coaching and Leadership Institutes.
