Jan. 27, 2026

What Does it Mean for Learning to Stick in Your Upper Elementary Literacy Classroom?

What Does it Mean for Learning to Stick in Your Upper Elementary Literacy Classroom?

Episode 119: What Does It Mean for Learning to Stick?

The goal of this episode is to help you walk away with an understanding of what retrieval practices are and how they help support student learning, in other words how to make learning stick.

We talk about:

1.Retrieval Practice and how it helps learning stick. 

2. Recap of chapter 1 of Smart Teaching Stronger Learning 

3. Two retrieval strategies that you can implement in your classroom today. 

Links to resources mentioned in the podcast:

Grab my free guide for keeping your mini lesson mini 

Book a discovery call for one on one coaching or school professional development

Link to the book (affiliate link)

Rote Vs. Meaningful Learning Richard Mayer (2002)

Episode 97: Teaching for Transfer: The difference between rote and meaningful learning and why it matters in your literacy classroom.

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