Location: New york, NY, US
Immerse yourself in a five-day institute on the fundamentals of explicit instruction, led by Dr. Zach Groshell, best-selling author of Just Tell Them: The Power of Explanations and Explicit Teaching, at Inwood Academy for Leadership in New York City.
All participants receive:
- Daily interactive workshops on the science of learning and the core principles of explicit instruction
- Daily opportunities to practice and refine high-leverage teaching techniques
- Catered lunch – please send dietary restrictions to the organizer
- A copy of Just Tell Them
- World-class instructional coaching in a small-group, high-support format
- Access to Steplab’s expert video library for analysis and model examples
- A practical, ready-to-use toolkit for planning, explaining, checking for understanding, and managing classrooms with precision
What to expect each day:
Each day will be broken up into morning, midday, and afternoon sessions.
Mornings: science of learning foundations
The science underpinning effective instruction
- The Evidence for Explicit Teaching
- Attention: The Gateway to All Learning
- Cognitive Load Theory: Working Memory and Long-Term Memory
- Spaced Practice and Retrieval Practice: Consolidation and Retention
- Generative Learning: Helping Students Do Something With Ideas
- Dual Coding: Designing Visual Supports and Organizers
- Worked Examples and Faded Guidance: The Gradual Release of Responsibility
- The Power of Background Knowledge
- Examples and Non-Examples: Clarifying Concepts With Contrast
- Common Instructional Myths That Waste Time
Midday: video study of expert teaching
Supercharged by Steplab’s world-class video library.
- Analyze real teaching in high-definition video
- See explicit instruction techniques in action
- Break down the moves that drive learning
- Identify high-impact habits to rehearse later in the day
- Learn to use video for coaching and self-improvement
Afternoons: active rehearsal and deliberate practice
Practical application of high-leverage instructional routines
- Gaining and Sustaining Student Attention
- Scripting Routines and Directions Students Actually Follow
- Lesson Planning That Isn’t Weird or Time-Consuming (simple, repeatable design)
- Cutting the Fluff and Explaining With Clarity
- High-Reliability Student Response Techniques (choral, turn and talk, cold call, mini-whiteboards)
- Teaching Vocabulary Explicitly and Systematically
- Feedback and Error Correction (clear, fast, supportive)
- Differentiation Without 30 Lesson Plans for 30 Kids (active observation, small-group instruction)
- Calibrating the Gradual Release (“I do → We do → You do” done right)
Pricing: $1068.91
