LEARNING PRACTICE PROGRAM
Tell My Story with STARR+™
Help students turn their experiences into visible, usable learning and authentic stories for what's next.
You are already creating meaningful opportunities for students to develop skills and capabilities through coursework, research, projects, internships, campus employment, community engagement, and other intentionally designed experiences.
But experience alone does not ensure that students will recognize what they have learned, identify the capabilities their evidence demonstrates, or understand how those capabilities are developing.
STARR+ helps educators make meaning-making and capability recognition an intentional part of academic, experiential, career-connected, and co-curricular learning.
Discover how STARR+ gives learners structured practice examining their evidence, articulating their learning, and considering how they can put that learning to work.
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HOW STARR+ WORKS
How STARR+ Supports the Learning Process
STARR+ begins with an authentic learner experience and supports a progression from experience to reflection, meaning-making, capability recognition, articulation, and transfer.
WHAT STUDENTS DO AND GAIN
STARR+ empowers students to make meaning from their experiences and turn that learning into something they can recognize, communicate, and use.
Through repeated practice, students build confidence, deepen awareness of their capabilities, and strengthen their agency as they learn to:
Reflect on authentic experiences
Recognize their learning, growth, and capabilities
Build STARR+ Story Cores™ in their own words
Connect their learning and capabilities to other contexts and future situations
Adapt their stories for opportunities that matter to them
RELATED CONTENT
STARR+ brings decades of scholarship in learning, sociology, leadership, teamwork, and social systems together with deep experience across higher education.
Explore our blog to see how that foundation becomes a structured practice for making meaning from experience, recognizing capability, articulating learning, and carrying it forward across student learning, professional development, and lifelong learning.
AN INSTITUTIONAL OPPORTUNITY
One shared practice.
Multiple institutional applications.
STARR+ gives institutions a shared, adaptable practice for helping everyone to make meaning from experience, recognize evidence of their developing capabilities, articulate their learning, and consider how to carry it into new contexts.
Looking for a student-directed, self-paced option?
The STARR+ Learner Pack is a student-only institutional licensing option that gives learners direct access to Tell My Story with STARR+, the Student Hub, Skills in Action, Story Works, and the resources they use to build, strengthen, and put their Story Core to work.
Thank you B Optimal for bringing a practical and impactful approach to reflective learning and skill development.
— Dr. Mellis Kural, Teaching & Creativity Center Coordinator
Monroe Community College
State University of New York