Volume 2, Edition 13 – Increasing Students’ Retention of Material

Welcome to this week’s edition of Best Practices Weekly. Today we’ll be discussing best practices for helping students retain information they learn.

It is always frustrating for teachers when students learn something one day and then don’t remember it the next. In an article for Education Week: Teacher magazine, a veteran teacher and member of the Teacher Leaders Network discusses what science has to say about increasing retention of material.

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