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Speaking
Keynotes, workshops, and seminars on memory, SEL, vocabulary, literacy, and learning.
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Create Learning Students Remember
Marilee Sprenger is a veteran educator, author, and professional-development specialist who translates brain-related learning concepts into practical classroom approaches.
Recent work on memory, executive function, and learning
Ways to work together
Professional learning with purpose
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Professional learning
Onsite and online learning designed around the priorities of your educators and organization.
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Publications
Books, concise guides, and strategy cards for turning useful ideas into everyday practice.
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Recent publications
Practical resources for strengthening memory, executive function, and social-emotional skills.
Teaching Techniques That Boost Memory
QuickWins! Strategy Cards
A classroom-ready card set that helps educators select practical techniques for attention, encoding, practice, and retrieval.
View publicationImproving Executive Function Skills
Quick Reference Guide
A concise reference for recognizing and supporting the executive-function skills students use to plan, focus, and complete learning tasks.
View publicationThe Missing Link to Help Them Think
Connecting Executive Function and SEL Skills to Boost Student Achievement
Connects executive-function habits with social-emotional skills and offers educators a framework for helping students manage learning more independently.
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Meet educators where the work happens.
Sessions bring an experienced educator's perspective to questions of attention, memory, language, emotion, and responsive teaching.
View all topicsMore than 25 years teaching across elementary, middle, and high school
Author of books and educator resources from ASCD, Corwin, and Wiley
International keynote presenter and professional-development specialist
In professional conversation
Reviews & perspectives
Independent professional review
The review examines the book's focus on high-utility words and its classroom approaches for helping students gain command of academic language.
MiddleWeb · The Essential 25
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The review considers how the book joins executive function and social-emotional learning in a practical framework for educators.
MiddleWeb · The Missing Link to Help Them Think
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Latest insights
Memory Lane Is a Two-Way Street
An exploration of remembering as both storing and retrieving, with implications for the way teachers revisit learning.
Read at ASCD Educational Leadership (opens in a new tab)Q&A: Making Lasting Memories
A brief professional conversation about helping students make learning meaningful, durable, and retrievable.
Read at ASCD Educational Leadership (opens in a new tab)From Being Stuck to Making Things Stick
A webinar focused on instructional moves that help students move beyond initial exposure toward lasting learning.
Read at ASCD (opens in a new tab)Bring the ideas into the room
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