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jan kuyper erland profile the bridge to achievement ® high performance thinking ® about jan business speaking | education speaking Jan is Intervention Consultant, Researcher, and Program Developer of Mem-ExSpan's Cognitive Skills Training System called The Bridge To Achievement (The BTA). ® See Jan's Google profile: 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, successful, productive, working unit. Cognitive skills training through the arts, is the bridge to academic or professional achievement. View Jan Kuyper Erland's profile Media-based training, on different time formats, was conducted both privately and in schools, businesses, and industry at thirteen national test sites, supported through 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 colleges. The program has a solid foundation of research and development, with over twenty years of published 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 rest when the students were longitudinally reconfigured into their original classroom settings. This was recognized as nationally landmark research. Professionally, she addresses the necessity of parents becoming aware of their own and their child's visual and auditory (listening) memory, deficient learning styles, and critical thinking processes. What one could not do before, they now can. This directly relates to academic and career success. Central to the plan is progressive mental improvement training, which utilizes puppetry, theatrics, meter, and poetic, choral speaking (called "prosody") as an enjoyable recitation method, in a multimedia instructional format. The curriculum teaches analytical sequencing and pattern-detection skills. These techniques are available for teacher training sessions. Featured in The Bridge To Achievement ® are vivid, live action vaudevillian puppets teaching Span Power aerobics and learning strategies to improve listening and visual memory patterning, sequencing, and integration. 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's innovative work is not to be confused with KU's renown CRL, with their learning strategies model (Strategic Intervention Model: SIM), and has never studied, associated, or worked with them on educational projects, creating her own definitive puppetry choral-speaking training model in 1980. During the 1970s, she directed a family puppet show, the Voco Poco Puppets, with her husband, Jim, which performed regionally for family entertainment at holiday time for Macy's department stores and shopping centers. See the 1979 family entertainment photo: The Gee Whillikers and Voco Poco Puppets. Their three children, Mark, Christina, and Cynthia Erland, benefited from this theatrical team experience where they scripted and engaged in ventriloquist puppet comic routines, and composed musical scores. They also became her first Mem-ExSpan students, modeling for others, while expanding their cognitive skills' abilities. Observing the audience's fixed attention on the puppet's voices, she wrote her master's thesis in learning disabilities on this unique modeling concept. Learner's still benefit from these dramatic vocal renditions. In 1980, Jan founded and became Executive Director of the nationally supported 501 C3 non-profit organization, Innovative Learning Systems, Inc. The group conducts educational research, presents complimentary parent and teacher community service workshops, and offers student scholarships for those with special and economic needs. See the ILS nonprofit link on the above navigation bar. At this juncture, and still continuously enrolled at the University of Kansas, and employing her educational measurement knowledge, Jan became a scientific researcher applying new brain science into practical classroom applications and publishing the results. She often managed three- to-four training experiments and field tests simultaneously with a small staff of college students and university advisors. Interestingly, with this family performance training background, the Erland children turned into highly successful adults, and now serve on the nonprofit Innovative Learning Systems, Advisory Board (see the above ILS link on the Navigation bar). They all notably are at the peak of successful careers and the girls can be seen as live guests on national television - Cynthia on HSN (Home Shopping Network) commentating fashion for Perry Ellis - Laundry Co., and Christina as a political analyst on Fox news. Jan Erland is the author of many published articles on redefining learning styles, memory, intelligence, and critical thinking improvement. She has served on the Editorial Review Board for the International Alliance for Learning's The Journal of Accelerated Learning and Teaching, and is currently the national Mind-Brain Forum 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. Her forthcoming book, "Get Smart, Stay Sharp : Cross The Bridge To Achievement" ® is directed to the general public. In her forthcoming book, she shares recipes for innovative Brain-Based Accelerated Learning techniques and how to develop and hand-tailor deficient Learning Styles. The book and program offer rapid analytical-sequencing and pattern-detection training for understanding systems and relationships essential in applying technological skills. She was sent as a chapter representative to the National ASTD Leadership conference, and following in 1998, she was selected by the National ASTD organizational committee to participate as a chapter standards compliance reviewer for the Management and Assessment Program (MAP) in Alexandria, VA. Furthermore, Jan created ASTD partnerships with several career management firms, The Des Moines Central Iowa ASTD Chapter, The St. Louis, Missouri ASTD Chapter, the KC-ASTD chapter "Community Affairs Committee," and area universities and colleges. The KC-ASTD Chapter also partnered with The Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, and Jan attended their events to promote KC-ASTD activities and membership. 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-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 serves as Literacy Chairperson for the Daughters of the American Revolution, (DAR). 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, her published contributions are available on this web site. GO BACK TO HOME PAGE Get Twitter Buttons Google Sitemap Generator Read further: Jan's Google Blog Jan Kuyper Erland, M. S. Intervention Educational Consultant, Program Content Provider, Researcher, Writer, and Speaker High Performance Thinking ® Training email: jan@memspan.com http://www.memspan.com