DEE assists the Institute in organizing various in-service and extension programmes in school Education including teacher education for the states and UT under its jurisdiction. It also monitors activities under integrated scheme for Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan.

The institute works in collaboration with many agencies and institutes in the Eastern Region for providing guidance in school and teacher education to various categories of personnel such as teachers, teacher educators, educational administrators, question paper setters, textbook writers through State Co-ordination committee (SCC) as part of its extension activities covering all the States and UT under its jurisdiction. Eminent scholars are invited on several occasions to deliver talks on various issues and concerns of education under the extension lecture series.