Coaching practices for Make it Stick the Science of Learning with Friends
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I’ve got a pile of memorized facts floating around with nothing holding them together, and the second I try to explain any of it in my own words or use it somewhere new, it falls apart
- I read it over and over until it feels familiar, then the moment someone asks me to actually say it back I draw a total blank
- I cram it all into one marathon session and ace it that night, then a week later it’s basically gone
- It all feels so smooth and familiar that I walk in sure I’ve got it, and then I bomb the test and can’t understand the gap
- When I’m trying to teach or mentor someone, I rush them on to the next thing before the last one has landed, and they end up with a head full of disconnected scraps
Practices that may help
- Make It Stick: The Science of Learning
"Make It Stick", by Peter Brown with psychologists Henry Roediger and Mark McDaniel, distills decades of cognitive science into a few high-leverage practices: retrieval practice, spacing, interleaving, and elaboration. Its central counterintuitive claim — that the most effective learning feels harder and slower than rereading — is backed by strong experimental evidence. - Elaboration
Explain new material in your own words and connect it to what you already know.
Make It Stick: The Science of Learning - Retrieval practice (testing to learn)
Quiz yourself to learn, not just to check what you already know.
Make It Stick: The Science of Learning - Spaced practice
Spread study over time instead of cramming it into one session.
Make It Stick: The Science of Learning - Beware illusions of knowing
Don’t trust the feeling of fluency — it routinely overstates what you actually know.
Make It Stick: The Science of Learning - Use spaced repetition of core ideas in teaching and coaching
Revisiting key concepts across sessions builds fluent understanding — mere exposure amplifies spaced practice.
The Mere Exposure Effect, Made Practical - Generation: attempt before you are taught
Try to solve or answer first, even if you get it wrong, before seeing the solution.
Make It Stick: The Science of Learning - Surface genuine shared values and experiences early
Finding real common ground accelerates liking more than surface-level agreement.
The Similarity-Attraction Effect (Donn Byrne) - Space retrieval attempts across increasing intervals
Test yourself on a topic after a delay, then again after a longer delay — the effort of retrieval at the edge of forgetting makes the memory strongest.
The Testing Effect: Why Retrieval Practice Beats Restudying - Solve problems collaboratively to access your ZPD
Joint problem-solving with a peer or coach reveals capability you could not reach alone.
Zone of Proximal Development: Learning at Your Real Edge
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- Make It Stick The Science Of Learning During A Big Change
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