Resources

Below find three kinds of resources:

Tools to Support Belonging and Growth
Writings on Education and Policy
Helpful Organizations

1. Tools to Support Belonging and Growth

Video: Introduction to "How You Say It Matters: A Toolkit for Improving Communications About Academic Standing"

Tools to Help You Support Students' Experience of Belonging in School

Social-Belonging for College Students (from PERTS): A free program to support a sense of belonging on campus for students at four-year colleges and universities.
A Small-Group Discussion About Coming to College. Inspired by the social-belonging intervention, this document describes a way to have a productive conversation about belonging among first-year college students.
The Belonging Guide (Beta) (see left, from CTC): Everything you need to use, customize, and learn from the social-belonging intervention, including annotated intervention stories and complete materials through January 2017.
Belonging for Educators: A PERTS Course: In this course, you will learn about belonging, why it's important, and belonging strategies for your classroom

More Tools

Student Experience Project Practices Library (from CTC/EA): Evidence-based, field-tested resources instructors can use to create more equitable, belonging, and learning-oriented classes.
Mindset Kit (from PERTS): A free set of online lessons and practices designed to help you teach and foster adaptive beliefs about learning.
How You Say It Matters: A Toolkit for Improving Communications About Academic Standing (from CTC): Do you want to help your students experiencing academic difficulty feel motivated, not crushed? Learn how to use "psychologically attuned" communications about academic standing. Introductory video.

Guides to Remedying Stereotype Threat

15 hacks for improving diversity in tech (Walton & Murphy, 2015)
1-page guide on ways to reduce stereotype threat (Walton, Cohen, & Steele, 2012)

Measures

Belonging and Belonging Uncertainty

2. Writings on Education and Policy

On School Discipline

How to decrease suspensions: Here's what new research shows. With Jason Okonofua, Education Week, May 18, 2022.

How to cut disparities in school suspension rates. With Jason Okonofua. Psychology Today, April 26, 2022.
When a “small” change mitigates bias. With Jason Okonofua. Character & Context, January 26, 2022.
The one-page letter that keeps kids out of jail. With Hattie Tate. Psychology Today, January 10, 2022.
How to break the juvenile detention cycle: New research shows a way. With Jason Okonofua and Katie Remington Cunningham. Education Week, October 13, 2021.

On Belonging and Growth Mindset

The power of small acts of inclusion. With Gregg Muragishi, Lauren Aguilar, and Priyanka Carr. Harvard Business Review. December 24, 2024
Is believing in yourself enough? Growth mindset and social belonging interventions for postsecondary students. NCEE Blog: What Works Clearinghouse, January 3, 2022.
Stop telling students, “You Belong!” Education Week, November 9, 2021
Having a growth mindset makes it easier to develop new interests. With Paul O'Keefe and Carol Dweck. Harvard Business Review, September 10, 2018.
Supporting students’ sense of belonging. Mindset Scholars Network, August 22, 2017.
Psychological insights for improved physics teaching. With Lauren Aguilar and Carl Weiman. Physics Today, May 2014.
How can we instill productive mindsets at scale? A review of the evidence and an initial R&D agenda. White paper prepared for the White House meeting on Excellence in Education: The Importance of Academic Mindsets, May 10, 2013.
Addressing achievement gaps with psychological interventions. With David Yeager and Geoff Cohen. Phi Delta Kappan, February, 2013.
Academic tenacity. With Carol Dweck and Geoff Cohen, 2011. White paper prepared for the Gates Foundation.

On Test Bias and Affirmative Action

Stereotype threat and anti-discrimination law: Affirmative steps to promote meritocracy and racial equality. With Sam Erman. Southern California Law Review, 2015.
Affirmative meritocracy. With Steve Spencer and Sam Erman. Social Issues and Policy Review, 2013. Policy Summary.
Amicus brief in Fisher v. Texas (2013) by Rachel Godsil (Seton Hall), Stuart Banner (UCLA), and Jerry Kang (UCLA).
Amicus brief in Fisher v. Texas (2016) by Jerry Kang (UCLA), John Wintermute (Loweenstein Sandler), and Rachel Godsil (Seton Hall).

On Social Norms and Self-Regulation

How social norms can free us from temptation. With David Kalkstein, Cayce Hook, and Bridgette Hard. Character & Context, April 12, 2023.
Why social change is contagious. With Gregg Sparkman. Character & Context, June 3, 2019.
Willpower: It's in your head. With Carol Dweck. The New York Times, November 26, 2011.

On Intergroup Relationships