The video of our recent webinar on how DI intersects with the science of reading is now available. This 73-minute webinar describes key features of Reading Mastery and Corrective Reading and how the instructional delivery and design of these programs align with the body of research and evidence of the most effective path to literacy. Click here to view the webinar.

If you are interested in taking a deeper dive into the topic, consider attending the National DI Conference. There are sessions that focus on the science of reading and learning:

Click here for registration information.

The National Institute for Direct Instruction is launching a new program to recognize schools or networks that have demonstrated a long-term commitment to utilizing Direct Instruction programs with fidelity. These entities will be highlighted as Silver Star Schools at the National Direct Instruction conference, at 4:30pm on Thursday, July 24, in Eugene, Oregon. By recognizing these remarkable schools, our hope is to inspire others to achieve similar success.

In this inaugural year, NIFDI will recognize the successes of:

These campuses have utilized Direct Instruction programs as their core academic instruction and have shown remarkable results. If you are attending the conference this summer, please plan to join us for this celebration!

This session builds upon and expands the coaching skills learned in the Direct Instruction Coaching Institute. It equips building and district-level instructional coaches, peer coaches, lead teachers, and mentor teachers with the tools needed to achieve an effective, efficient, and sustainable DI implementation.

In this 4-half day session, Participants will learn how to:

• Conduct efficient problem-solving sessions to identify and solve student performance problems in a timely manner, including the facilitation of data analysis team meetings as a key part of the problem-solving process.
• Identify detailed steps using DI instructional design to address a student’s specific skill deficit and scaffold the delivery of explicit, targeted remedies, without involving full lesson push-backs; coach instructors on how to schedule and deliver targeted remedies.
• Use videos and remote coaching of classroom instruction as a tool to support the coaching process.
• Conduct effective lesson rehearsal sessions as a tool to build instructor DI lesson delivery skills.
• Identify DI implementation fidelity measures and create reports for stakeholders and decision-makers to help inform the process of sustainability.

Download the  pdf brochure for complete session descriptions and register online here!

NIFDI will be holding a training on Direct Instruction Spoken English (DISE) on April 29, from 7:30am-2:30pm Pacific time. The program, published by Educational Achievement Publishing, is a two-level program that teaches a fundamental mastery of the English language to students with little or no knowledge of the language. Students need to have at least a third-grade level of knowledge in their own language to be successful in the DISE program. With this foundation, DISE can give students the oral language skills they need to benefit from their other classes as quickly as possible. The goal of the DISE program is to enable students who don’t speak English to master the basics of the English language in one school year.

Click here to register for this training.