LearnDoEarn.org

Fall, 2007

190,000 hits per week

5,700 unique visitors per week

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TRAFFIC REPORT: LearnDoEarn in the Fast Lane!

You may have heard about the LearnDoEarn National Student Credentialing System from an educator, a public official, or maybe you’ve seen one of Dana Egreczky’s famous presentations introducing you to this exciting suite of essential credentials: World Class Students, School Counts, The Technology Challenge, Work the Money, and The Math Challenge. If you haven’t visited the site yet, we invite you to join an ever-expanding number of students, teachers, parents and business leaders who are visiting LearnDoEarn.org to see what the buzz is all about. Students are downloading presentations, listening to webinars, going on Virtual Field Trips, and taking online assessments to find out if they have what it takes to succeed in college, work and life after high school.

The national website, launched in December 2006 is gaining momentum. Traffic on the site spiked over the summer as educators learned about this unprecedented opportunity to expose students to the realities of the ‘real world’ and motivate their performance. We anticipate the trend will continue to grow exponentially as teachers and students return to school across the country. What are they finding?

LearnDoEarn contains a powerful suite of programs that encourage and motivate middle and high school students to make the best academic, behavioral and career decisions. LearnDoEarn offers students the opportunity to earn credentials by achieving performance benchmarks in five mission-critical programs. Teachers can use these credentials to reward students and students can use the credentials when applying to college or for a job. Each of these programs is soundly grounded in credible, compelling research and has been designed to mitigate deficiencies in high school graduates as defined by college admissions officials and employers. Students can use the System on their own, but LearnDoEarn is best used by teachers in classrooms, guidance counselors in student meetings, parents working with their children, or volunteer mentors in facilitated student discussions.

DRIVERS TRAINING FOR EDUCATORS: Classes Start in October

If we want to drive student achievement, we need to steer them toward information that will motivate them to work harder, be on time, and learn why they need to learn what teachers are teaching. LearnDoEarn can help!

Join us for Drivers’ Training classes – we’ll show you all the public features available on the LearnDoEarn website and how to use them. We’ll show you our LearnDoEarn modules and activities. And we’ll also show you the resources behind the password-protected Faculty Room and what’s available in the Central Office.

Check the schedule out here.

SIGNAL RIGHT OR LEFT: Virtual Job Shadowing

Help students learn which way to turn with our Virtual Job Shadowing. Using webinar technologies (Internet-assisted teleconferences), students can hear and speak with adults in jobs in today’s workforce and learn about careers that might interest them. This fall, we are featuring a police officer, corporate contributions manager, corporate communications manager and computer gamer. And more are coming in 2008.

We’ve also scheduled a special series of speakers for National Disability Employment Awareness Month in October featuring adults who have overcome great challenges but who still get up and get to work every day. Among others: an attorney with spinal cord damage, a top-notch lobbyist with a degree from Harvard who has been blind since the age of two, and an accountant with neurological challenges.

All of which will help students – general education and special needs – understand that they, too, can overcome any obstacle if they work hard. Students will also learn that the workplace is a highly diverse place where they will have to work with many different kinds of individuals.

Check out our webinar schedule here.

HIGH BEAMS: The World Class Students Program

Students learn that just 100 years ago 95% of births took place at home, 8% of homes had a bathtub, 14% had a phone and women washed their hair once a month using EGG YOKES as shampoo. Letters that used to take six months to deliver by pony express can now be emailed in seconds and cell phones, digital cameras, and DVD players didn’t even exist 15 years ago. "Times are quickly changing", states Keith, a manager at an insurance company and virtual presenter of module 8A of the World Class Student presentations. He encourages students to imagine what the next 100 years will bring and the skills that will be needed for jobs that haven’t even been invented yet! The answers lie in the World Class Students 15 online presentations that encourage 6-11 grade students to take the sequence of rigorous courses (especially mathematics and science) that research shows provides the best foundation for success in college and work.

TURN ON THE RADIO: Testimonials

High School Senior:    “LearnDoEarn made me put things together. I decided that in order to get where I wanted to in international economics, and to distinguish myself in applying for college, I would have to take those courses [outlined in the World Class Students sequence]. The things they stressed to us really helped me get my job as a bank teller. My attendance and grades showed I was responsible and able to work hard. Usually, they don’t hire 16-year-olds.”

Dean,Graduate School of Education:   “The singular strength of the program is that it helps kids see that what they do now in school does relate to what they can do later on.”

8th Grade Mathematics Teacher:   “We teachers always tell students to work hard, but LearnDoEarn presents students with a statistical rationale for why they have no choice but to work hard.”

BACKERS ON BOARD: Partners and Sponsors

The US Chamber of Commerce, representing millions of employers in the nation, is the national business partner of LearnDoEarn.org. And LearnDoEarn was also selected for the Business Leaders Toolkit website managed by Achieve, Inc. We are extremely pleased to have such broad-based support for this national e-nitiative!

DRIVERS WANTED: License to LearnDoEarn

While the LearnDoEarn National Student Credentialing System is available online to anyone interested in improving the future of today’s young adults, it is most effective when it is part of a statewide or locally-driven campaign to improve student achievement and preparation for college and careers. LearnDoEarn offers training and support services as well as state-specific website customization for business leaders, policy-makers and educators wishing to enhance the use of these essential credentials in their area. To find out more contact Patty Cullinane at 908-832-5214.