Education Overview

At HIP Education, we teach our students to resist such behaviors as bullying, bystanding, and negative conformity and encourage their well-being and academic success.

Past research has demonstrated that psychological interventions on mindset, belonging, and values-affirmation can positively impact student achievement and help to close the academic gap for minority students. HIP education utilizes these methods as well as explores the impact of interventions developed from the Situational Awareness and Social Fitness models, centered on psychological processes involved in learning, social interactions, well-being, and self-selected change, as well as how these methods can be adapted to a classroom setting as a supplement to students’ regular curricula across a broad range of ages and cultures.

Over the 2010-2011 academic calendar year, three pilot intervention programs were conducted by the Heroic Imagination Project in two schools. These pilots met once a week for one or two semesters, and social-psychological interventions were administered to students in three domains: Situational Awareness, Social Fitness, and Mindset. The goal of the interventions was to help students identify and initiate positive change within key psychological processes critical to their long-term success in school, careers, and interpersonal relationships and to encourage a pattern of wise and effective acts of everyday heroism. Key topic included: the power of situations, Social Fitness as a life-long learning and practice model, and a growth mindset regarding intelligence and person theory.

Click here to watch students from our Foothill Pilot program describe their experiences.