John Hollingsworth
President and co-founder of DataWorks Educational Research and co-author of Explicit Direct Instruction (the 'Purple Book'); an expert on whole-class explicit teaching who has coached tens of thousands of lessons and speaks about classroom strategies and instructional design.
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Sep 21, 2025 • 31min
Episode 7: How to avoid just teaching yourself
John Hollingsworth, co-founder of DataWorks and co-author of the 'Purple Book', shares classroom-proven explicit teaching strategies. He breaks down checking for understanding, non-volunteer questioning, choral responses, and the 80% whole-class then corrective feedback approach. He also discusses gestures, props, pre-planned sentence stems, and tactics to keep students actively engaged rather than teaching to yourself.
