Close the week with a two-minute strategy review

Self-regulated learners run a loop: plan, work, then look back at what the strategy did (Zimmerman, 2000). Most students never close the loop; the week just ends. Two minutes on Friday closes it: what did you try, did it work, what will you do differently on Monday. Meta-analyses of self-regulated learning interventions put the payoff among the larger effects in education. (Manning's weekly-agency-review skill is this exact routine.)

In practice

• Three lines on an exit slip: one thing I did that worked, one that didn't, one thing I'll change. Strategies, not topics.
• Read ten of them and open Monday with the good ones, named: "Three of you tried self-quizzing before the homework. Here's what they said." Strategies spread by testimony.
• Keep it genuinely two minutes. The habit survives on cheapness; a worksheet kills it.