Growth Mindset Intervention Sessions

Use two short sessions of about 20–25 minutes each to teach growth mindset, especially at vulnerable times such as ninth grade transitions. Effective interventions present new scientific information that feels non-obvious and useful, include stories from similar others who applied the idea successfully, and ask participants to write their own narrative about struggle and improvement ('saying is believing'). Simple narratives should frame difficulty as changeable: difficulty occurred, it did not determine the future, specific steps were taken, and improvement followed.