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250: Nine Easy Ways to Add Retrieval to Your Lessons

Retrieval practice is the act of trying to recall something you learned from memory by doing things like taking a test or using flashcards instead of just looking at, rereading, or reviewing the information. When we study with retrieval, we learn and remember things much better than we do by other review methods. So how do we add more to our classrooms? In this episode, I'm joined by Dr. Pooja Agarwal, editor of the book Smart Teaching Stronger Learning, and two of the book's authors, Dr. Janell Blunt and Dr. Michelle Rivers, to learn nine simple, easy, and fun retrieval strategies that can be added to any lesson. Thanks to Zearn and EVERFI for sponsoring this episode. To read a full transcript of this episode and find links to more retrieval practice resources, visit cultofpedagogy.com/retrieval-in-action.

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  264: How Schools Can Support Neurodivergent Teachers

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  263: Five Skills that Get Students to Take Ownership of Their Learning

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  262: Three Fresh Strategies That Get Students Engaged With Texts

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  261: How and Why to Use Concept Maps

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  260: Seven Teaching Practices that Nurture Student Voice

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  259: Making Project-Based Learning Accessible for Everyone

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  EduTip 33: Answer more questions with questions.

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  258: The Power of Centering Student Exemplars

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  257: Bringing Joy into Our Schools: A Conversation with Gholdy Muhammad

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  256: Community Supplies in the Classroom: Clearing Up the Confusion

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  255: Before You Decorate Your Classroom, Here's a Better Idea

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  254: Dusting Off an Old Practice to Make Reading Fun Again

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  EduTip 32: Don't put kids in Charlie Bucket situations.

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  253: Fully Seen and Fully Known: Teaching that Affirms Disability

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  EduTip 31: Be the first dork.

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  252: Where Discipline Reform Has Gone Wrong (in Some Schools)