STAT Success Cohort ยท Week 8 Tool

Recovery portfolio.

Eight weeks of work in one document, written in your own words. The act of writing it is the work; the document is what is left over. Takes 45 to 60 minutes done well. Do not rush. This is the artifact you keep. Your work auto-saves as you go.

How to use this tool

Ten prompts, written for the version of you that has just finished the program. Each prompt asks you to pull from work you have already done in earlier tools (Week 1 audit, failure mode diagnostic, Point recovery inventory, Discharge plan, etc.). You are not creating new content. You are synthesizing what you already wrote into a single coherent document about your recovery. Save, print, download. Keep this somewhere you can find again.

01

Identity statement (start)

In one or two sentences, who were you as a student in Week 1? Use the third person if it helps. "A pre-nursing student in their second attempt at A&P 2, sitting at 47% with shame about the previous withdrawal, anxiety so severe that opening the textbook produced physical symptoms." That kind of specificity. Match Taylor's case if it helps you write yours.

02

Where you started

Pull from your Week 1 audit. What was your course grade. What was your trajectory. What did your week look like in numbers (study hours, sleep, exams scheduled). The data, not the story you tell about it.

03

Your failure mode

From the Week 1 failure mode diagnostic. What was your dominant failure mode. Method, content, exam strategy, or affective. If Week 6 revealed a second failure mode you missed in Week 1, name that here too.

04

Your team

Who were the people in your team. What did each of them teach you, by being who they were? Not what they said in any specific session. The cumulative effect of working alongside each of them for eight weeks.

05

The case that hit closest

Of the cases your team worked through (Morgan, Jordan, Alex, Riley, Sam, Casey, Taylor), which one resembled you most? What did you see in that case that you could not see directly in yourself? The case is a mirror; describe what you saw in it.

06

Your biggest leading indicator gain

From the Point recovery inventory in Week 5, or from your own observation. The single change in how you operate that you trust most. The thing that, even if your grade had not moved at all, would still be evidence that recovery happened.

07

Your final exam, or where you ended

What was your final exam outcome. What was your final course grade. How does the experience of your final compare to the experience of your Week 1 exams? If your final has not yet happened, write where you are heading and what you predict.

08

Your discharge plan summary

From the Discharge Planning tool. The three categories: what survives without effort, what requires maintenance, what would fade unless replaced. Brief, one to two sentences per category. The full plan lives in the tool; this is the summary you carry with you.

09

Your commitments for the next eight weeks

Three commitments. Without STAT. Realistic without the cohort holding you to them. Specific enough that you can tell at the end of each week whether you did them or not.

10

Identity statement (end)

Now, who are you as a student? Same form as your starting identity statement. One or two sentences. Third person if it helps. The contrast between your starting and ending statements is the whole portfolio in one comparison.

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