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MOTIVATE LAB

Supporting Student Motivation and Success

Mindset GPS™ — the navigation system for people’s potential.

Mindset GPS keeps educators and systems on course, helping students push through challenges with real-time, scalable strategies that drive measurable results.

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Evidence-Based Faculty Development Courses

Motivate Lab offers courses that help foster more motivationally-supportive learning environments for faculty, staff, and system leaders.

Introductory

Starting Strong — Create a more supportive learning environment today!

Self-paced ≈4 hours
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An introductory course to the Motivating Learners Course for all educators. Explore the Mindset GPS framework.

Core Course

Motivating Learners Course

Self-paced ≈10–15 hours
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Explore and develop knowledge on how to apply the Mindset GPS framework in the classroom. Practice identifying and creating mindset-supportive strategies and tools. Learn to evaluate the effectiveness of these strategies through improvement science so you can make informed choices in your classroom.

For Leaders & Staff

Motivating Learners Course — Administrators, System Support Staff, and more

Self-paced ≈10–15 hours
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Apply the Mindset GPS framework in your practice. Practice identifying and creating mindset-supportive messages and submit projects you can leverage in your context. Learn to evaluate the effectiveness of resources and tools using improvement science to inform your ongoing decisions and routines.

Pathways

The Motivating Futures Course

Self-paced ≈10–15 hours
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Apply the Mindset GPS framework in postsecondary pathways. This hands-on course equips postsecondary advising practitioners with motivationally-supportive tools and language to prepare students for transitions. Help students develop adaptive beliefs about their postsecondary pathway plans.

Improving The Psychological Air for Systems Change

Our mission is to improve student learning through a focus on both students’ beliefs about themselves as learners and their learning environment.
What we say and do as educators and leaders shapes the environment. Let’s walk the walk—together.

Communities of Practice

Deepen your understanding of motivational strategies and learning mindset-supportive messaging in a collaborative environment alongside your peers and colleagues.

Motivator Repository

This repository features real classroom projects created by faculty teaching corequisite Math and English across California, Louisiana, and Kentucky. These examples grew out of the Motivating Learners Course, where instructors develop a shared vocabulary around learning mindsets (e.g., Mindset GPS), practice writing mindset-supportive messages, and apply those ideas to everyday teaching.

The Navigator Toolkit

Evidence-based resources and activities that highlight learning-mindset-supportive practices in postsecondary pathways.

High Impact Practices Repository

Ready-to-go, evidence-based classroom interventions designed to foster sense of belonging, growth mindset, and purpose & relevance among students—developed for easy implementation.