Make Student Learning Visible, Valued, and Transferable
The STARR+ Story Toolkit ™
Launching Spring 2026!
A complete, LMS-ready toolkit that helps students transform their experiences into compelling career narratives through structured reflection and metacognitive skill-building.
📚 Used in Courses, Career Services, FYE, Capstones & More
Built for Higher Education: Career Centers • First-Year Experience • Student Success • Academic Advising • Capstone Courses • Co-Curricular Programs
The STARR+ Framework
A proven structure for transforming experiences into stories of growth, skills, and potential
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Situation and Context
Goal and Role
Skills in Action™
Outcome and Impact
Growth, Goals, and Transfer
STARR+ is next-generation reflection—built to help students see their growth, name their skills, and carry them forward.
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Moves reflection beyond recounting — into real skill development
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Bridges academic learning with personal goals and real-world expectations
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Builds capacity to reflect intentionally for lifelong learning
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Supports future-oriented transfer across contexts and opportunities
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Brings equity and accessibility into reflection
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Consistent, scalable, and skills-focused system
What's Included
This comprehensive platform—with interconnected HTML pages, interactive worksheets, and PDF resources—arrives ready-to-go; simply upload and integrate into your LMS and share with your students.
Student Edition
The complete STARR+ journey—from understanding the framework to crafting polished stories.
Interactive HTML browser based system
10 downloadable and fillable PDF worksheets
Scaffolded 5-step story building process
8 specialized tools (interviews, peer feedback, etc.)
Examples, glossary, and appendices
Student-facing • Self-paced or facilitated
Facilitator's Toolkit
Everything you need to implement STARR+ with confidence—no prep time required.
14 ready-to-use faciitation tools
Facilitation guides (instructor-led & student self-directed)
Assessment rubrics (formative & summative)
Peer feedback protocols with student handouts
Planning worksheet & use cases
NACE crosswalk & FAQ
Instructor-only • Implementation support
Why Institutions Choose STARR+
Designed for the realities of higher education
Behind the Design: Why This Works
Students gain valuable experiences, but they struggle to see and articulate their skills, connect learning across contexts, and communicate their growth in meaningful, career-connected ways.
The STARR+ Story Toolkit provides a structured, scaffolded, and interactive system of tools and templates designed to help students surface learning from everyday experiences, name what they've learned in skills-focused language, and connect their growth to future contexts and opportunities in their own words.
The result? Students develop clear, compelling stories that highlight their capabilities, deepen their metacognition, and strengthen their ability to transfer learning into new opportunities, empowering educators to support readiness—no curriculum overhaul required.
Key Features
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5-step proprietary framework that structures, scaffolds, and guides reflection and story building on authentic experiences
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Interactive Story Builder with auto-save and download
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11 Skills in Action™️reference aligned with national standards for career- and future-readiness
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8 specialized tools for moving stories forward to support personal and professional goals
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PDF worksheets as alternative format for additional flexibility
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Complete Facilitator Edition included — implementation guides, assessment rubrics, facilitation prompts, and LMS setup instructions
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Privacy-first and accessibility-first design.
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HTML, CSS, and Javascript core delivers content and functionality across LMS systems and devices.
STARR+ Across the Student Journey
Supporting growth at every stage of the student journey with flexible implementation across programs and contexts
First-Year Experience & Transitions
Help new students recognize that they arrive with skills and experiences that matter. STARR+ builds early habits of reflection and helps students articulate what they bring — setting the stage for intentional growth throughout college.
Coaching & Advising for Success
Use STARR+ as a conversation tool in one-on-one advising or coaching sessions. Help students connect their experiences to their goals, recognize patterns in their growth, and articulate their developing identity.
Course-Embedded Learning Experiences
Students use STARR+ to reflect on a meaningful experience already embedded in your course — such as a project, assignment, capstone, lab, field experience, internship, or practicum. The reflection becomes part of the learning, not separate from it.
Co-Curricular & Work-Integrated Programs
Help students recognize that learning happens everywhere — not just in the classroom. STARR+ makes co-curricular and work-integrated learning visible and transferable, connecting student involvement to skills employers value.
Career & Future Readiness
Students build a library of STARR+ stories they can draw from for interviews, applications, LinkedIn profiles, and networking conversations. The structured format translates directly to behavioral interview responses.
Graduate & Professional
Graduate students bring rich professional and academic experiences but often struggle to articulate their growth. STARR+ helps them translate complex experiences into clear, compelling narratives for academic and professional contexts.