Thanks to work by Bryan W., regular visitor to Special Education Today, readers can check out the “49th Annual Direct Instruction Conference: Opening and Keynote” courtesy of the National Institute for Direct Instruction Yes, this is the talk I gave in July of 2023. The video is available for your viewing pleasure (or distress) at
At the beginning of the video, there are presentations of two awards (including one to me!). My talk begins about 10-15 min into the video. I drone on for about 45 min.
If you want to see the slides from the NIFDI show, here is a video of them (about 3 min). They are not synced with the video, so you can’t follow along, but you can do your own conceptual mixing of them.
I’ll note that not everyone was happy with the photos I used. Sorry!