Memexspan: About Jan Kuyper Erland
   
     

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the bridge to achievement ®

high performance thinking ®
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Jan is Intervention Consultant, Researcher, and Program Developer of Mem-ExSpan's Cognitive Skills Training System called The Bridge To Achievement (The BTA). ® Jan's Google Profile

The resulting outcome is High Performance Thinking.® Since 1981, The Bridge To Achievement ® has created a higher quality of life for individuals ages nine-to-adult, by retraining their memory and critical thinking skills so that all levels of learners are integrated in the classroom as a unified, productive, working unit. Cognitive skills training by applying the arts, becomes the bridge to higher academic achievement.

Art and science-based interactive training, on different time formats, was conducted both privately and in schools, businesses, and industry at thirteen national test sites, supported through modest enrollment tuitions. The Bridge To Achievement ® was refined for e-learning classrooms for the two alternative 3- and 8-Week Brain-Based programs encompassing just 24-hours of training, 30-40 minutes daily. It is now scalable for Fifth Generation technology enabler development for implementation in schools, learning centers, and home-learning for ages 9-15.

The program has a solid foundation of research and development, with decades of published, juried reports statistically documenting longitudinal academic gains in both private and public school classes. Published Jan Kuyper Erland monographs, by The Journal of Accelerated Learning and Teaching, reported the 2-year longitudinal field research of a two-school, fifteen classroom pilot study, where robust results appeared immediately for one-third of the deficient learners, and one-to-two years' latently in interval stages for the remaining subjects, when the students were longitudinally reconfigured into their original classroom experimental-testing settings. This longitudinal tracking was recognized as nationally landmark research.

Professionally, she addresses the necessity of parents becoming aware of their own and their child's cognitive skills, visual and auditory (listening) memory, deficient learning styles, attention, and critical thinking processes. What one could not do before, they now can following BTA training. This applied conceptual tinking directly relates to academic and career success.

Central to the plan is progressive mental improvement training, which utilizes puppetry, comic theatrics, rhythm, and rhyme as an enjoyable recitation rehearsal method, in a Blended e-learning interactive instructional format. The curriculum teaches analytical sequencing and pattern-detection skills. These techniques will soon be available for teacher training sessions.

Featured in The Bridge To Achievement ® are interactive early 1930s-40s, early live-stage, vaudevillian character-toy puppets offering unique learning strategies to improve listening and visual memory patterning, coding-sequencing, and conceptualization needed for academic literacy proficiency.

With Dutch heritage from Pella, Iowa, Jan received her bachelors degree in Education, Speech, and Science from Drake University, and a masters degree in Learning Disabilities from the University of Kansas (KU), recognized as the #1 international school for Learning Disability instruction, graduating before the establishment of its' Center for Research and Learning (CRL).

Jan Erland is the author of many published articles on redefining learning styles, memory, intelligence, and critical thinking improvement. She served on the Editorial Review Board for the International Alliance for Learning's The Journal of Accelerated Learning and Teaching, and also on the national Mind-Brain Forum as Editor for The American Society for Training and Development.

Serving on the Board of Directors for the Kansas City Chapter of The American Society for Training and Development, she contributed to the chapter's management and growth in many areas. In addition to being a National Editor for "Performance In Practice," she was a regular contributing editor for the Kansas City Chapter's VISION newsletter. Additionally, she was a featured speaker at conferences and monthly KC-ASTD programs on her "High Performance Thinking" ® construct.

Jan has technical expertise in the multi-levels of Content Development for hybrid Internet/Externet/IntraNet learning. This includes: Instructional Development and Design for multi-platforms, Web Design, Program Assessment-Measurement-and-Evaluation, Subject Matter Expert (SME) in Cognitive Skills and Learning, Project Management for Audio-Video Learning, and Artistic Vocal Talent for puppetry-toy-character Impersonations.

Professional affiliations include: The American Psychological Association, (APA); Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, (ASCD); International Alliance For Learning (IAL); The American Society for Training and Development, (ASTD); and The Association for Children with Learning Disabilities, (ACLD). Jan served as the Literacy Chairperson for the Daughters of the American Revolution, (DAR). Additionally, Jan was a founding member of Total Quality Alliance, National Learning Foundation, Washington DC. Jan also served on the regional Kansas City Board of Directors for ASTD where she initiated and developed their first Position Referral Service Committee. As national ASTD Mind-Brain Editor, samples of her published contributions are available on this web site.

Read further: Jan's Google Blog

Jan Kuyper Erland
CEO, Mem-ExSpan, Inc. memspan, intervention Educational Consultant,
Program Content Provider
The Bridge to Achievement ® Training
 email: jan@memexspan.com
http://www.memexspan.com