Leader-Directed Accountability

Leader-directed accountability is the practice of the workshop leader actively distributing engagement expectations across the cohort by naming specific participants for response rather than relying on voluntary participation. The mechanism creates a structural expectation that any participant may be called on at any time, which produces consistent pre-work completion and distributed engagement — effects well-documented in Doug Lemov's *Teach Like a Champion* and in Elise Dallimore's cold-calling research. Workshop Doctor's Modern Teaching framework names this as Technique 4 in its engagement-distribution toolkit. Cold Calling is the specific activity that operationalizes leader-directed accountability.