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New Record: Students Log 1.3 Million Minutes in Rubin Emerge in 23-24 Academic Year
Students nationwide spent 1.3 million minutes in Rubin’s Emerge curriculum for employability skills during the 23-24 academic year. As a comparison, students logged 375,000 minutes in the 22-23 academic year.
Students in places like Las Vegas, Philadelphia, Charlotte, Fairfax County and more gained critical workplace readiness skills that employers and colleges want to see.
Why the 4X increase in logged minutes?
Our team works hard to bring on new school partners. Beyond that, we pore over the details to deliver our Moodle-based learning management system to school districts. We insist on single sign-on access when possible to eliminate the need for students to sign in with a traditional password or manually create an account.
The ease of use allows students to visit Emerge with one click from their school’s LMS and engage right away with Emerge readings, videos, assignments and assessments for critical topics like email/phone etiquette, conversation skills, interview prep and more.
Digging into the 1.3 million minutes, here are the most popular assignments students accessed:
- Texting vs Emailing: 16,447 submissions
- How to Compose a Subject Line: 12,877 submissions
- How to Prepare Smart Interview Questions: 5,676 submissions
- How to Set Your Own Voicemail: 3,996 submissions
- How to Email an Instructor About a Poor Grade: 2,770 submissions
“We focus every day on the student and teacher experience in Emerge,” said Rubin founder Danny Rubin. “When we see logged minutes jump into the millions, it says that we make it easy for customers to use our product — and to want to keep coming back for more. We continue to work in summer 2024 at the user experience because the journey and task is never done.”
Explore Emerge for yourself and then request a free trial!
4X increase from previous year
You Won’t Believe How These HS Students Write Emails Thanks to Rubin Propel
High school students in teacher Shelley Roberts’s class in North Carolina have undergone a metamorphosis.
An email metamorphosis, if you will.
With the help of Propel, our groundbreaking email teaching tool, the 28 Johnston County students have learned to write high-quality messages instead of ones that resemble a casual text.
To understand the dramatic leap, here is a before & after from one of Roberts’s students.
James (11th grade)
Email before Propel
Subject line: [blank]
Email message: can u pull me for CT
The same email with the help of Propel (the “after”)
Subject line: Comet Time
Email message:
Hello Mrs. Roberts,
I wanted to ask you to pull me for Comet Time A on Thursday, November 8.
I would like to make corrections on my quiz if I am still allowed to do so.
Please let me know if it is a problem,
– James, 1st block
James’s “after” email might seem like it’s written by ChatGPT. But no, he composed the message on his own and wrote every word. Propel guided James to structure the email, use proper capitalization, include periods, remove slang (“u”) and more.
Watch a Propel demonstration to see how the tool works in Gmail and Outlook.
“Our initial pilot was extremely successful and had a positive impact on the email communication
skills of students,” said Johnston County CTE Workforce Development Specialist Kathryn Farrior. “Before and after examples demonstrate a noticeable improvement in student’s email formatting, grammar and overall email etiquette.”Further, ninety percent of Roberts’s students said they would sometimes or always use Propel when writing
emails.Try Propel for free in YOUR classroom. Click here to request access.
Night and day difference
Bryant & Stratton College Incorporates Rubin Educaton into Undergrad Course
On November 23, I had the opportunity to bring my new book, Wait, How Do I Write This Email?, to the classroom for the first time.
Thanks to Bryant & Stratton College and Director of Career Services Ronda Toll for inviting me to discuss email scenarios from the book. The school purchased the book for every student in the senior Capstone class.
We talked about:
– How to apply for a job even if the company has no openings at the time (p. 114)
– How to ask for an informational interview as a recent grad (p. 143)
– 4 questions everyone should ask in a job interview (p. 221)To see sample chapters and the entire table of contents, provide your email address over on the right-side column of the blog page. I will send everything to you for free.
As I wrote the book, I envisioned it as a teaching tool in the classroom. So tonight was a cool moment — and hopefully there are more like it to come!
Photos from the night:
The book…ready for action. 
Talking with students at Bryant & Stratton College about the job search, networking and LinkedIn — the central themes of my book, “Wait, How Do I Write This Email?” Learning a thing or two (I hope!) 
Teaching from the book for the first time in a classroom setting. As students prep for graduation, school gives them the ideal resource.