Before a single course appears on LETN, it moves through a rigorous development process built on the science of learning — not "background, training, and experience." For officers, it's a promise: the training you take is measured, current, and defensible. For instructors, it's the standard your course is held to, and the partnership that gets it there.
Every course follows the same disciplined path from idea to evidence — and it never truly ends. Select any phase to explore it.
Discovery
An interview and meta-analysis of the course — target audience, purpose, expectations, supporting documentation. You leave with renewed focus, a clearer goal, defined parameters, and a plan for where the course fits across LETN's six channels.
Task Analysis
We shift the course from "background, training, and experience" to "research, observation, and analysis" — the start of building the evidence that makes it defensible. You end with documented research, sources, and observations that support the course.
Task List
All learning is about tasks: what should participants be able to do or know on the job? We define the tasks to be measured, what competent performance looks like, and how to measure it.
Measure & Evaluate
With the tasks defined, we decide how each is assessed and organize them into categories that prepare you to write performance objectives.
Design the Training
We write performance objectives that are measurable, attainable, and reflect the complexity of the task — in the learning domain most effective for your outcome — then organize them to maximize knowledge and skill development.
Measurement Plan
We determine how every objective is measured. Most "training" never measures its objectives well — so there's no evidence tasks were performed competently, or at all. No evidence of performance means no evidence of learning.
This is where the building happens. We help you present, develop, and assess the material using modern techniques — minimizing the weaknesses and maximizing the advantages of each modality for maximum impact. Not all learning requires someone talking for hours on end.
LE Training Network provides six channels so every course is best represented and accessed — and one course can fit in many of them. The Discovery phase already mapped which channels apply and how to maximize the course for as many as possible.
Most courses end with a 1–5 survey and call it an evaluation. In the learning industry those are "smile sheets" — they measure popularity, nothing more. We use a performance-focused learner survey whose method of questioning produces actionable insight, while also telling us who the participants are.
Once a course is posted, we don't move on. Every year it enters a maintenance cycle: we review survey results, confirm it's still meeting its goals, and check all content against current case law, research, and practice. If there are substantial changes, we pull it offline and update it until it's current again. No more wasted time and money on old training with no relevancy.
Why It Matters
A standard that works both ways.
For Officers
Training you can trust
Every course you take has been analyzed, measured, and proven — then maintained against current law and research. It's training built to hold up on the street and in the courtroom, not to check a box.
For Instructors
A partner, not a portal
You bring the expertise; we bring the instructional-design rigor. We work alongside you through every phase to turn your knowledge into a defensible, measurable, and lasting course — and keep it current year after year.
Who Leads It
This process is led by Rick Jacobs, of Law Enforcement Training & Education Consultants.
The LETN Standard
Bring your course to the standard.
If you have expertise worth teaching, we'll help you build it into training that measures up. It starts with a Discovery conversation.