The Navigate Project
Supporting Learning Mindsets on the Pathway to Postsecondary Success
As students progress through high school and make decisions about their postsecondary plans, they receive numerous messages from other students, instructors, and mentors that shape perceptions of whether they belong in postsecondary settings and have the potential to succeed. Those perceptions, in turn, can affect students’ achievement in their high school classes, decisions to pursue postsecondary options, and persistence in higher education.
Postsecondary advising programs, designed to help students prepare for and navigate the transition to life after high school, can play a critical role in fostering the learning mindsets students need to be successful in their new learning environments. Along with equipping students with practical knowledge, leading innovators in the postsecondary advising space have begun focusing on how to foster adaptive learning mindsets among students. However, the strategies they use to do so have yet to be documented in a way that they can be readily shared among programs or directly connected to research evidence on learning mindsets.
What is the Navigate Project?
The Navigate Project is a collective of educators, advocates, funders, and researchers dedicated to developing and adapting evidence-demonstrated practices in the postsecondary access and success space.
This project seeks to accelerate the adoption of evidence-based learning mindset-supportive practices among postsecondary advising programs by:
Codifying existing practices among innovative programs,
Building the capacity to integrate new practices into the postsecondary advising space, and
Laying the infrastructure for infusing practices into advising programs more broadly.
Together, these activities will synthesize key practices across the research and practice spaces to inform the field of advising and related programming.
The Navigate Project Is On A Mission To…
Empathize & Learn
How postsecondary access programs support or unintentionally undermine learning mindsets, especially for historically disenfranchised students.
Prepare
Postsecondary access programs to support learning mindsets in a way that honors students’ backgrounds and experiences
Co-create
A suite of tools to support learning mindsets to be shared widely across postsecondary access programs
Test & Evaluate
High-leverage practices for supporting learning mindsets, especially for students from historically marginalized and underserved groups
FEATURED PROJECTS & EVENTS
The Navigator Toolkit
The Navigator Toolkit houses evidence-based resources and activities that highlight learning mindset supportive practices.
Learn more about The Navigator Toolkit here.
Annual Fall Convening
We look forward to welcoming our network of partners for two days of engaging dialogue, new learnings, and intentional action that bridges learning mindsets with advising in ways that best support students on their journey to postsecondary success.
Learn more about The Navigate Project’s 4th Annual Convening here.
Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
