The learning inside an experience rarely announces itself. Tell My Story with STARR+ helps students uncover it — what they learned, what they're capable of, and where it can take them — and gives the faculty, advisors, coaches, and tutors who guide them one shared way to make that happen.
A student finishes the group project, closes the laptop, and moves on to the next thing. The work mattered. Somewhere inside it she discovered something about how she plans, how she persuades, how she recovers when a plan falls apart. But the opportunity to see it was never quite visible, so she never named it — and what goes unnamed is hard to build on and harder to talk about.
Reflection already happens across your campus — in a first-year seminar, a capstone, an advising appointment, an internship debrief. Each has its own prompt and its own language, and rarely a thread connecting them. Faculty, advisors, coaches, tutors, career educators, and supervisors can all see the growth. What they need is a shared way to help students see it too, name it, and carry it forward.
That is what Tell My Story with STARR+ is for: one structure, one language for capability, and tools students keep using long after the assignment is over — so learning becomes visible to the student who did it, and portable across the campus that supports her.
Students use STARR+™ to explore meaningful experiences, recognize what they learned, how they learned, and what they demonstrated, and build authentic Story Cores they can continue learning from and adapting over time.
A student begins with an experience they want to explore—a project, a shift at work, a semester that didn't go as planned, a leadership role, or a conversation that stayed with them.
STARR+ guides them through it: what happened, what they did, what came of it, and what they make of it now.
Along the way, they build a STARR+ Story Core™—an authentic story of learning they can continue building from over time.
Students often demonstrate more capability than they can yet describe.
Skills in Action™ helps learners recognize and articulate those capabilities using language that is specific, behavior-based, and still their own—making the strengths already present within their stories easier to see, understand, and communicate.
Through Story Works™, learners continue building from their Story Core, adapting it for interviews, applications, portfolios, networking conversations, advising appointments, and other opportunities.
They also continue learning from it, discovering new insights and recognizing new possibilities as their goals and experiences evolve.
Every STARR+ story begins with an authentic learning experience—but it doesn't end there. Explore examples that show how students transform reflection into evidence of learning, identify the practices and capabilities they've developed, and create stories they can confidently share in classrooms, interviews, applications, and beyond.
How do you transform a class project into a compelling story about leadership, civic responsibility, and communication? Follow Carlos as he moves from researching food insecurity in his community to building a STARR+ Story Core and crafting a polished story that demonstrates how classroom learning can create real-world impact.
Explore Carlos's StoryA group project becomes an opportunity to recognize the often-invisible skills that make collaboration successful. See how Katelyn identifies and communicates her contributions—organizing research, facilitating teamwork, and helping her team achieve a shared goal—through a concise, skills-focused STARR+ story.
Explore Katelyn's StoryTechnical work tells a powerful story, too. Explore how Rowan transforms a data-intensive criminal justice capstone into a compelling narrative about critical thinking, ethical decision-making, precision, and professional growth—demonstrating that even behind-the-scenes work develops highly transferable capabilities.
Explore Rowan's StoryThe tools stay with them after the session is over. Students get a way to look closely at their own experiences, notice what grew, and turn that into language and stories they can actually use.
Students look at real experiences closely enough to notice what they practiced, strengthened, tried, adjusted, and learned — including the times things didn't go as planned.
They connect what they did and decided to the capabilities it demonstrates, and describe them in clear language that still sounds like them.
One story, grounded in their own learning, that they build from instead of starting over every time something new comes up.
In Story Works, students reshape a Story Core for interviews, applications, portfolios, collaborative work, feedback, networking, and goals of their own.
They learn to ask where else this matters — and to bring what they know into academic, professional, civic, leadership, and personal situations.
Students return with new experiences, revisit earlier Story Cores, and start noticing the patterns in how they learn and grow.
Learners and practitioners each get their own experience, built around the same work. Students explore an experience, recognize what they are capable of, build a story, and carry it forward through the Student Hub. Practitioners use the Staff Hub for the planning, facilitation, and implementation support they need before they begin, while they are using the program, and long after the session ends.
Students get to know the program, choose an experience worth exploring and build a Story Core with STARR+, put that story to work in Story Works, and come back when something new happens. The practice grows with them.
Planning guidance and a Planning Worksheet for before. Support for each moment your learners are in. Guidance for helping them carry learning forward. And Practice Guides for the questions that only surface once you have done this a few times.
The program bends to fit a class session, workshop, advising or coaching conversation, tutoring appointment, internship program, student employment experience, or other learning environment—rather than asking your learners to fit it.
The session, the tools your students use, the two hubs, and the resources you'll reach for later — one program, licensed for the length of your subscription.
A half day of interactive working sessions where faculty, staff, and practitioners experience the practice themselves, explore how it supports learner development, and prepare to use it effectively with students.
A dedicated learner space that brings together the STARR+ reflection process, Story Core™, Story Works, and the supporting tools and resources students use throughout the program.
Your home base: planning guidance, facilitation support, professional learning, and quick access to everything else.
The guided reflection where a student explores an experience and builds a Story Core.
Eleven transferable capabilities, three spheres of practice, observable behaviors, and language students can use to describe what they did.
Where a Story Core goes to work: Take the Role of a Hiring Manager, Stand Out in Interviews, Get Feedback on Your Story, Craft a Micro-Narrative, and Quick Converters for résumé lines, LinkedIn posts, and cover letters.
Short, focused guides on skills language, peer storytelling, the reflection environment, and connecting reflection to assessment.
The Planning Worksheet and companions that help you shape the experience around your learners, your goals, and your setting.
This program is for people who help students make sense of what they are learning, recognize what their experiences reveal, and connect that learning to what comes next.
You may be an advisor helping a student connect past experience to a new goal, a tutor helping someone recognize how they approached a challenge, a faculty member guiding reflection after an assignment, a career professional helping a student prepare for an interview, or a supervisor helping a student understand what they developed through work, leadership, or experiential learning.
The program opens with an interactive session where your team works through the practice together and learns how to help students make learning practices more visible, intentional, and developable. From there, the Staff Hub carries the rest — planning guidance, facilitation support, and Practice Guides you can return to whenever a question comes up.
Start with what you hope your learners gain, look honestly at the setting you work in, and let the Planning Worksheet shape the rest around them.
Ask the questions that invite depth. Encourage specificity. Make revision and uncertainty feel ordinary. Your role isn't to interpret a student's experience — it's to create the conditions where they can.
Introduce Skills in Action™ so it strengthens what a learner is already saying instead of talking over it.
Help learners listen to one another with curiosity, so a shared story opens something up rather than gets evaluated.
Build a space where reflection feels safe, participation is within reach for everyone, and growth is simply expected.
Recognize observable evidence of learning, and connect what students write to program outcomes and institutional goals.
Student learning happens in every part of a college. Tell My Story with STARR+ gives that learning a shared practice, a common language, and a record in students' own words — while helping institutions build the capacity of the people already supporting students to intentionally strengthen learning practices across settings.
One structure and one language for reflection, capability, and transfer — the same in the classroom, in advising, in coaching, in tutoring, in career development, and in experiential learning.
Story Cores show how students reflect, decide, adjust, develop capability, and transfer learning — authentic evidence of learning in students' own words.
Patterns across stories can help colleges see where students are progressing, where they remain stuck, and where advising, curriculum, programs, or support practices may need attention.
These stories can inform assessment and program evaluation and help institutions communicate impact — making student learning more visible across the college.
Tell My Story with STARR+ is licensed as a complete Learning Practice Program. The annual license includes practitioner development, learner access, the Student Hub, the Staff Hub, implementation resources, program tools, and updates during the license term.
Final pricing reflects the scope of implementation, including participating practitioners, learners served, and areas of institutional application.
Focused starting points may be available for institutions beginning with a defined program, population, or team. Expanded customization, research, evaluation, or implementation consulting is scoped separately.
Give your practitioners a shared practice and somewhere to stand. Give your students a way to see what they are learning, name it, and carry it into whatever comes next.