Leo Schumann

Intervention Finder

Find the right wise intervention for the moment you're in.

Describe what you're seeing in your students and when you can reach them. The finder suggests research-based interventions, explains how each works, and shows the studies behind it.

The quiet questions students ask

Select a question to focus the suggestions and the evidence below on it.

Step 1

What is your role?

Suggestions are weighted toward what you can do from where you sit.

Step 2

What are you seeing?

Pick everything that applies.

Step 3

When can you reach students?

Timing matters. The same message lands differently at different moments.

Step 4

How could you deliver it?

Optional.

Suggestions

Intervention families

Browse by approach, or search every study.

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How the finder works

Each suggestion is an intervention family: a group of studies that change the same student belief in a similar way. The finder scores each family on how well it fits the challenges you picked, the moment you can reach students, your role and the way you can deliver it.

Every card follows three tests for wise interventions described by Cohen, Garcia and Goyer (2017). Targeted: who it is for. Tailored: which belief it changes. Timely: when it works best. The "How to know it's working" list is the start of an action research plan: measure before, try it, measure after, and adjust.

These are starting points, not prescriptions. What works depends on the setting, and the setting has to back up the message. Test locally before you scale.

Sources and credit

  • Study listings are drawn from the Wise Interventions database created by Gregory M. Walton, Timothy D. Wilson and colleagues, with support from the Mindset Scholars Network. Each study links to its summary there. The finder includes the studies in that database most relevant to colleges and schools. Family descriptions and tags are our own.
  • The three tests (targeted, tailored, timely) come from Cohen, Garcia and Goyer, Turning point: Targeted, tailored, and timely psychological intervention, in the Handbook of Competence and Motivation (2nd ed., 2017).
  • Studies marked “Leo's research” are Leo Schumann's own published work (as Omid Fotuhi), added alongside the database entries.