Making Learning Stick: 3 Proven Training Strategies for Engagement and Retention

What if you could design learning experiences that truly stick? This session introduces three of the most researched, evidence-based learning strategies—retrieval practice, interleaving, and spaced repetition—that improve engagement, retention, and real-world application. Too often, we rely on passive learning, leading to information overload, disengagement, and minimal impact. Evaluators who teach, train, or facilitate learning sessions can use these techniques to turn knowledge-sharing into an active, lasting learning experience.
In this session, you’ll experience these strategies firsthand, seeing how they shift the role of trainers from presenters of knowledge to facilitators of deep, durable learning. We’ll explore how these methods reinforce shared leadership and community-driven change by ensuring knowledge isn’t just delivered but absorbed, applied, and sustained.
Whether you're designing training for clients, community leaders, program staff, or the public, you’ll leave with practical tools, strategies, and proven techniques to make your learning sessions more impactful, engaging, and effective.
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