Professional Development Workshop
Instructional Leadership
Instructional Leadership through Explicit Direct Instruction (EDI) helps administrators and academic coaches develop the skills to identify effective instruction, provide feedback, and support teachers in improving student outcomes.
Strengthen Leadership. Improve Classroom Practice.
Instructional Development
Instructional Feedback
Research Insight
Supporting Articles
Instructional Development
Build the skills to lead classroom improvement
School improves student achievement when leaders focus on improving classroom instruction. Strong instructional leadership provides the foundation for successful school improvement efforts by creating consistency, collaboration, and a shared instructional model.
Leaders explore the principles that support student learning and identify what effective instruction looks like in action.
Focus on:
Explicit teaching practices
Student engagement routines
Cognitive learning principles
Classroom evidence of learning
Instructional Feedback
Classroom observation to improve classroom instructional practices
Effective instructional leadership begins with understanding what happens inside the classroom. Leaders learn how to observe effective teaching practices and use observations to support teacher growth.
Leaders learn to recognize:
Research-based instructional practices
Strengths and opportunities for improvement
Student engagement strategies
Training Options
Instructional Leadership Workshop Pricing
Flexible Options
One-Day Instructional Leadership Training
Starting at $4,000
6-8 Hours • Delivered at your school site •Travel not included
Our consultant visits your school to work alongside administrators, instructional coaches, and school leaders to develop effective instructional leadership practices. Leaders learn how to identify research-based Explicit Direct Instruction strategies in a classroom setting, conduct focused classroom observations, and provide meaningful coaching and feedback that strengthens teaching and improves student outcomes.
Workshop Includes:
- Research-based instructional practices
- Classroom observation training
- Identifying evidence of student learning
- Student engagement strategies
- Effective Checking for Understanding
- Corrective feedback and reteaching practices
- Coaching and feedback techniques
Ideal for schools implementing new curriculum, uniforming teaching practices, addressing student achievement challenges, and building sustainable instructional systems.
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EDI Workshop & Classroom Demonstration & Coaching
Starting at $3,500
6-8 Hours • Delivered at your school site •Travel not included
Available when your school or district begins with an EDI Workshop.
After leaders learn the observation and coaching process, an EDI consultant works alongside administrators and instructional coaches in classrooms to apply the strategies in real time.
Workshop includes:
- Guided classroom observations
- Calibration of observation practices
- Leadership support for implementation
- Strengthening instructional coaching systems
This hands-on support bridges the gap between professional learning and implementation, helping leaders confidently observe instruction, coach teachers, and improve student outcomes.
Instructional Impact
Why Schools Choose Instructional Leadership
Schools choose Instructional Leadership because improving student outcomes begins with improving classroom instuction. This workshop helps administrators and instructional coaches develop the skills to recognize effective teaching practices, provide meaningful feedback, and support teachers in implementing research-based instructional strategies.
See the difference Instructional Leadership makes
In the first video, instructional leaders observe a classroom lesson without using a common observation framework.
While they can see students participating and the teacher delivering instruction, they are often unsure which instructional practices are occurring or how to accurately describe what they observe. As a result, observations become subjective, feedback varies from person to person, and important instructional practices may be overlooked.
Before Instructional Leadership
After Instructional Leadership
What changed?
In the second video, instructional leaders watch the exact same lesson, but this time they use a structured classroom observation form.
With a common framework, they can accurately identify specific instructional practices as they occur, record objective evidence, and recognize the lesson components being implemented. Instead of relying on opinions, leaders develop a shared understanding of effective instruction, making classroom observations more consistent, meaningful, and actionable for teacher feedback and instructional improvement.
External evaluation commissioned by the S.H. Cowell Foundation, Jane David and Joan Talbert made the following statements about Sanger Unified’s use of Explicit Direct Instruction:
“With training and support in Explicit Direct Instruction (EDI) from DataWorks, the principal and teacher coach at this school taught their staff a specific set of strategies for developing and teaching lessons designed to help struggling students. One of the poorest schools with half their students classified as English learners, their success created demand, spurring interest among principals and teachers in implementing EDI in their schools. Grounded in Madeleine Hunter’s elements of effective lessons, the principles embodied in Explicit Direct Instruction (EDI) over time became the district’s de facto definition of effective lessons.”
Read the full study here: Turning Around A High-Poverty District
Research Insights
Bridging the Implementation Gap
Instructional Leadership helps schools bridge the implementation gap by ensuring that professional development continues beyond the initial Explicit Direct Instuction (EDI) workshop. Through classroom observation, leadership feedback, and coaching conversations, administrators and academic coaches provide the support teachers need to strengthen implementation and sustain instructional change.
Research shows implementation improves when schools provide:
Ongoing leadership support after professional development
A shared instructional framework across classrooms
Coaching cycles that reinforce effective practices
Supporting Articles
Great Initial First Teaching (GIFT) and Student Engagement Norms work together to create classrooms where every students activlty participate. Learn how intentional engagement routines can ensure students are thinking, responding, and demonstrating understanding throughout a lesson – every one to two minutes.
Great principals establish and communicate a clear vision centered on high expectations for both students and teachers. Learn about principals’ traits that influence student outcomes by creating a shared vision, supporting effective instuction, and using data to guide decisions.
Improving student achievement requires schools to create a system to help teachers consistently implement effective instructional practices. Learn how Instructional excellence is not achieved through one-time professional development; it requires training, observation, feedback, and ongoing refinement