Using America Learns

1. Guidance for Members

2. Agenda:
- Why we invested in this for you
- How to use it
- Special details on “being there for one another”

4. Purpose #1 of 4:
Our most effective members take time
after each session to:
• Reflect on that session;
• Discover new information
as a result of that
reflection; and to
• Plan for the next session.

5. Purpose #2 of 4:
Meaningful Resources for You
• The Network recommends targeted
resources to you based on your
plans, goals and challenges
- Strategies
- Tips
- Resources

6. Purpose #3 of 4:
Learning Community share your
• Share with and learn from one another,
without dealing with e-mail lists or
successes
bulletin boards.
learn from
others

7. Purpose #4 of 4:
Collect Data to:
• Figure out how to best support you
• Track and report on our progress
• Evaluate our success

8. How You’ll Use It

9. Log In
• http://americalearns.net/elev8

10. Complete Weekly Reporting
& Reflection Logs
*****Enter info about what
the type of information you’ll
be asking members to report
and reflect upon.****
.

11. What the Logs Look Like

12. What Doesn’t Happen When you Submit Your Logs?
Black Hole:
-Pretty to look at.
- Not useful to you.

13. What Happens When you Submit Your Logs?
1) Get instant ideas that are aligned with a goal you identified in your logs.
Brain power from:
- Fellow members
- Our program’s staff
2) Staff figures out what we need to do to best support you.
Our job:
- To listen to you
- To be there for you

14. What Else Can You Do?

15. Enroll Students
You’re Serving

16. See which students
you’re currently linked
to.

17. Adding New
Students
Click this link to add
additional students.

18. Adding New
Students
You MUST click this link
for your students to be
submitted for review.

19. See the status of any
students you’ve
submitted for review.

20. Access Strategies

21. Access the Reporting
& Reflection Logs
You’ve Submitted

22. Update Your Password
(Super Important) and
E-mail Account

23. Be There for One Another &
For Future Members
Sharing Strategies

24. Special Strategy Sharing Question on The Logs

25. What Well-Written Strategies Look Like
• They’re detailed, allowing others to easily figure out how to use or
adapt them for their own needs.
• They tell us how to achieve a specific outcome.
• They provide others with the resources that are needed so that
they can implement or adapt the strategy easily.

26. Here’s a Great Strategy

28. A Less-Helpful Version of that Strategy
The guidance on making
Situation: sure that each note was
unique was really
Our girls were starting to behave better, and we wanted an opportunity to recognize them for that
important to have.
change.
Step 1:
We made cookies.
Guidance on the easiest
Step 2: type of cookie to make or
use for this project?
We included notes in the cookies that thanked the students for their better behavior.
Really would have
appreciated hearing
- Start each note with girls are
how the “We
Can we have some guidance fortunate to…” responded to the
on how to write effective cookies
notes so that they’re well - Highlight topics such as upbeat
received?
attitudes, leadership
potential, willingness to speak up

29. Our Strategy Sharing & Screening Criteria
Any strategies you share or approve of must meet the following minimum
criteria:
[Insert your criteria here.]
[A good philosophy: If you aren’t completely comfortable with the strategy being
used with your own children or other children in your family, do not share or
approve the strategy.]

30. Strategy Writing Training Video
http://americalearns.net/train

31. Are We Ready for Success?

32. Where to Turn for Help:
Name:
Email:
Phone:
Text: