John Hollingsworth, president and co-founder of DataWORKS, discusses Explicit Direct Instruction. Topics include creating learning intentions from content standards, activating prior knowledge, checking for understanding, reacting to incorrect answers, optimizing classroom instruction, improving test scores, talent discovery vs talent development, operationalizing learning intentions, different ways of reading texts, increasing student participation through questioning, teaching concepts and skills development, teaching math variations, periodic review in education, not-for-profit organization 100 Story Building, optimal mix of instructional approaches, teaching concepts vs rote memorization, and finding information on Explicit Direct Instruction.