Memexspan: About Jan
   
     
  jan kuyper erland

the bridge to achievement ®

high performance thinking ®

Jan is Intervention Consultant, Researcher, and Program Developer of the Cognitive Skills Training System called The Bridge To Achievement (The BTA). ® 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. Media-based training, on different time formats, was conducted both privately and in schools, businesses, and industry at twelve national test sites.

Professionally, she addresses the necessity of parents becoming aware of their own and their child's Visual and Auditory 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.

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 parent and teacher workshops, and offers student scholarships for those with special and economic needs.

The program has a solid foundation of research and development, with over fifteen 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 fifteen classroom pilot study, where some results appeared latently.

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, "Stay Sharp, Become Smarter: 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 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.

With Dutch heritage from Pella, Iowa, Jan received her bachelors degree in Education from Drake University, and a masters degree in Learning Disabilities from the University of Kansas, recognized as the #1 international school for Learning Disability instruction. A former classroom and learning disabilities teacher, Jan developed The Integrated Learning Plan, applying artistic and scientific disciplines to unite all levels of classroom learners into a cohesive, productive unit.

Central to the plan is progressive mental improvement training, which utilizes theatrics, meter, and rhythm (called "prosody")in a multimedia instructional format. The curriculum teaches analytical sequencing and pattern-detection skills.

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.

The Bridge To Achievement ® was refined for e-learning classrooms into an 8-Week Brain-Based program encompassing just 24 hours of training, 30 minutes daily.

It is now scalable for Fifth Generation technology enabler development for implementation in schools, learning centers, and colleges.

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.

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Jan Kuyper Erland, M. S.
Intervention Consultant,
Researcher, Writer, and Speaker
High Performance Thinking ® Training
 Tel:  785-749-5402
email: jan@memspan.com
www.memspan.com