This research based overview outlines the core problems, concepts, and theory of action underlying student academic mindsets and learning strategies and their connection to academic achievement. Our review summarizes trends and highlights promising interventions and tools that educators serving low income students and students of color particularly African American and Latino students might adapt to their local contexts in order to help their students engage, persist, and succeed in school and beyond.

Electronic reproduction. August 2012. Available online at: http://www.impaqint.com/sites/default/files/project-reports/impaq%20student%20academic%20mindset%20interventions%20report%20august%202012.pdf.

Section 1: Definition and theory of action -- Section 2: Important trends in practices targeting academic mindsets -- Implementation and scale-up -- Conclusions and recommendations -- References -- Summary of interventions that promote academic mindsets.