Transforming the Transition from High School to College and Career
The Challenge
As students navigate the critical transition from high school to postsecondary life, the messages they receive shape whether they believe they belong and can succeed. These perceptions profoundly impact their achievement, persistence, and postsecondary decisions.
Leading postsecondary advising programs have begun fostering adaptive learning mindsets among students—but these innovative strategies remain undocumented, unshared, and disconnected from research evidence.
The Opportunity
Postsecondary advising programs are uniquely positioned to foster the learning mindsets students need to thrive in new learning environments. By bridging the gap between innovative practice and rigorous research, we can accelerate adoption of what works—especially for students from historically marginalized and underserved groups.
A Comprehensive System of Support
We’ve created an interconnected ecosystem of tools, resources, and professional development designed to bridge research and practice—empowering postsecondary advising programs to implement evidence-based strategies that foster student success.
Featured Products & Resources
The Navigator Toolkit
The Navigator Toolkit houses evidence-based resources and activities that highlight learning mindset supportive practices.
Values Connection Activity
Values Connection is a FREE lesson plan based on Motivate Lab’s relevance affirmation intervention research, in which students explore their personal values and connect these values to their education and future goals. This activity is designed for use across a variety of contexts and offers versions for middle school, high school, and beyond.
Motivating Futures Course
The Motivating Futures Course is an asynchronous online course grounded in learning mindset research to equip practitioners with mindset-supportive practices as they guide students through the postsecondary transition and planning process. Request a free demo today!
The Learning Mindset Climate Survey Guidebook
The Learning Mindset Climate Survey (LMCS) Guidebook is free a tool for schools and postsecondary advising programs to gather input on how effectively they support students’ learning mindsets in pursuit of their postsecondary and career goals. This tool provides a snapshot of learning mindset-supportive practices in action.
How They Work Together
These three products form an integrated system:
- Build Knowledge: The Motivating Futures Course provides foundational understanding of learning mindsets and equips advisors with evidence-based strategies.
- Access Resources: The Navigator Toolkit offers ongoing access to vetted activities and protocols that can be adapted to specific contexts.
- Measure Impact: The Learning Mindset Climate Survey provides data-driven insights into how well strategies are working and where to focus improvement efforts.
The Result
Together, these tools enable postsecondary advising programs to systematically document, implement, and refine strategies that foster student success—closing the gap between research and practice, and ensuring that every student receives the mindset-supportive messages they need to thrive.
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