Why It Matters

Students have meaningful experiences. The learning inside them is not always visible.

Students complete projects, work with others, respond to setbacks, solve problems, take on responsibilities, receive feedback, and make decisions every day. Those experiences can develop important capabilities, but experience alone does not guarantee that students will recognize what they learned or know how to communicate it.

The STARR+ Learner Pack gives students a structured place to examine an experience closely, interpret what it reveals, recognize the capabilities they demonstrated, and create a story they can continue using and learning from.

Instead of leaving reflection to chance—or asking students to start over every time they prepare for an interview, application, portfolio, advising conversation, or new goal—the Learner Pack gives them a repeatable practice.

How It Works

One experience becomes a foundation students can keep building from.

Students move through a connected learner journey inside the STARR+ Student Hub.

01

Start with something real

A student chooses an experience that matters—a project, job, challenge, leadership role, class, conversation, or moment that changed how they see themselves or their work.

02

Build a Story Core

STARR+ guides the learner through what happened, what they did, what resulted, what they learned, and what the experience reveals now.

03

Recognize capability

Skills in Action helps students connect their choices and behaviors to transferable capabilities using language that is specific, behavior-based, and still their own.

04

Put the story to work

Story Works helps learners adapt a Story Core for interviews, applications, portfolios, networking, feedback, résumé lines, LinkedIn posts, cover letters, and other opportunities.

05

Return and keep learning

Students can come back with new experiences, revisit earlier Story Cores, recognize patterns, and continue strengthening how they understand and communicate their learning.

What’s Included

Everything students need, in one connected learner environment.

The Learner Pack preserves the complete student-facing STARR+ experience.

Learner Environment

Student Hub

A dedicated space that brings together the STARR+ process, Story Core, Skills in Action, Story Works, and connected learner guidance.

Structured Reflection

STARR+

A guided process for exploring an authentic experience and moving from description toward interpretation, learning, and future use.

Learning Record

Story Core™

An authentic, reusable account of an experience that students can continue refining, learning from, and adapting over time.

Capability Recognition

Skills in Action™

Eleven transferable capabilities, observable behaviors, and language students can use to recognize and describe what they demonstrated.

Transfer Environment

Story Works

Tools that help learners adapt Story Cores for interviews, applications, portfolios, networking, feedback, résumé lines, LinkedIn posts, and cover letters.

Institutional launch guidance is included.

Institutions receive the guidance needed to launch the Learner Pack and onboard students.

Professional learning, facilitator resources, practitioner implementation resources, and the Staff Hub are not included.

Student Outcomes

Students leave with more than a completed reflection.

They gain a repeatable way to recognize learning, articulate capability, and carry experience forward.

Make learning visible

Students look closely enough at an experience to recognize what they practiced, changed, strengthened, and learned.

Name capabilities with confidence

They connect what they did and decided to the capabilities those actions demonstrate.

Build a Story Core worth keeping

They create a durable foundation they can build from rather than starting over each time a new opportunity appears.

Communicate learning authentically

Students develop stories that are specific, evidence-based, and still sound like them.

Carry learning across contexts

They consider where else the learning matters and how it can be adapted to academic, professional, civic, and personal situations.

Keep the practice going

New experiences become opportunities to return, reflect, recognize patterns, and strengthen learner capability over time.

Where It Fits

Direct student access can support many institutional priorities.

The Learner Pack works wherever colleges want students to reflect on experience, recognize capability, and communicate learning.

Career Readiness
Experiential Learning
Student Employment
Advising & Coaching
Classroom Reflection
Portfolio Initiatives
Internships & Co-ops
First-Year Experience
Leadership & Civic Learning
Choose the Right Option

Learner access or a complete Learning Practice Program?

Both options give students access to the complete learner-facing STARR+ environment. The difference is the institutional capability and implementation support included around it.

Tell My Story with STARR+

Choose this when you also want practitioner capability and coordinated implementation.

The full Learning Practice Program brings the learner experience and practitioner experience around the same work.

  • Everything included in the Learner Pack
  • Interactive professional learning
  • Staff Hub and facilitation support
  • Practice Guides and implementation resources
  • Support for coordinated use across roles and settings
Explore the Full Program
Annual Institutional License

Pricing based on the number of learners served.

Each license provides annual access to the complete STARR+ learner environment for the number of students included.

Learners Annual Price Per Learner
1,000 $10,000 $10.00
2,500 $20,000 $8.00
5,000 $27,500 $5.50
7,500 $30,000 $4.00

Need access for more than 7,500 learners? Contact us to discuss the appropriate STARR+ Learner Pack license.

Give students direct access to STARR+.

Provide a structured way for learners to recognize what they learned, articulate what they can do, and carry their experiences into future opportunities.

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