Jefferson County Public Schools

A Culture Where Every Student Feels Valued – and Grows a Year in a Year

7 Mindsets is a research-backed Culture Builder, not another curriculum add-on. We help JCPS build a culture where students and educators thrive — creating the engagement and belonging behind the district’s goal of a year’s growth in a year’s time, on the priorities your board cares about most.

Prepared For

Jefferson County Public Schools
ESSA 2
Instructure Research Team - ESSA Level IV Evidence - 2026 - 2026-01-29
Instructure Level 2 ESSA 2025
Instructure Research Team - ESSA Level IV Evidence - 2026 - 2026-01-29

Strategic Alignment

Your District Goals, Operationalized by 7 Mindsets

JCPS has defined the graduate you want through the Backpack of Success Skills and set a clear goal — a year’s growth in a year’s time. 7 Mindsets is the connected ecosystem built to deliver it: mindset-based curriculum, mental health and wellness, measurement, and a whole-school framework, with ESSA-validated evidence behind it.

Strategic Alignment

Your District Goals, Operationalized by 7 Mindsets

JCPS has defined the graduate you want through the Backpack of Success Skills and set a clear goal — a year’s growth in a year’s time. 7 Mindsets is the connected ecosystem built to deliver it: mindset-based curriculum, mental health and wellness, measurement, and a whole-school framework, with ESSA-validated evidence behind it.

Ignite a Culture Where Students Feel Valued

Culture immersion, the 7 Mindsets Core curriculum, and 7 Mindsets Wellness build a culture where students and educators thrive — the foundation behind JCPS's "Increasing Capacity and Improving Culture" pillar. ESSA Level 2 evidence: Hillsborough County, 58,000+ students.

Accelerate Literacy & Numeracy Growth

Engaged, connected students show up and persist — the conditions for a year's growth in a year's time. ESSA Level 2 gains in English and math, paired with the self-efficacy that turns effort into achievement.

Ensure Equity

In a district where roughly 63% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch and 145 languages are spoken, an independent 2025 study shows 7 Mindsets' largest gains came from students who started with the greatest needs — including students with disabilities and multilingual learners.

Make Every Dollar Count

One coherent foundation across classrooms, leadership, and wellness — so overlapping initiatives consolidate instead of compete. A single Tier 1 investment that advances culture, attendance, behavior, and staff support at once.

Support & Retain Your Educators

Empowering Educators extends the mindsets to adults, giving staff a shared language and lifting the morale that keeps great teachers in JCPS classrooms — so teacher voices are heard and valued.

Portrait of a Graduate

Your Graduate Profile Is a Mindset-Based Graduate

Every disposition you’ve named, from ethical and resilient to collaborative and ready, is developed across the full 7 Mindsets system and made measurable through 7 Mindsets Insights.

Ethical
Inclusive
Resilient
Collaborator
Communicator
Community Contributor
Creative Thinker & Innovator
Critical Thinker & Problem Solver

Multi-tiered by Design

7 Mindsets Is the Framework for Multi-Tiered Supports

Lasting well-being and student success take more than a single curriculum. They take a connected, multi-tiered system. 7 Mindsets delivers universal Tier 1 instruction for all students, targeted Tier 2 and Tier 3 intervention for those who need more, and the measurement tools to guide it, all aligned to the standards and frameworks your district is accountable to.

Multi-tiered by Design

7 Mindsets Is the Framework for Multi-Tiered Supports

Lasting well-being and student success take more than a single curriculum. They take a connected, multi-tiered system. 7 Mindsets delivers universal Tier 1 instruction for all students, targeted Tier 2 and Tier 3 intervention for those who need more, and the measurement tools to guide it, all aligned to the standards and frameworks your district is accountable to.

  • K-12 Tier 1 plus Tier 2/3 supports. Universal instruction for every student, plus targeted prevention and intervention, aligned to MTSS.

  • Aligned to your state standards. Mapped to the health and wellness standards your educators are accountable to.

  • Maps to your Portrait of a Graduate. Every disposition connects to the mindsets students build.

  • Grounded in recognized frameworks. Aligned to CASEL competencies and ASCA standards, built on 25+ years of research.

  • ESSA Level 2 validated. Independent evidence of impact, with a Level 4 research-based rationale.

  • English and Spanish. Differentiated, flexible lessons designed for every learner in your district.

  • Measurement built in. Insights makes student growth visible and guides instruction across the district.

7 Mindsets Framework

One connected model: Tier 1 instruction, Tier 2/3 intervention, and continuous measurement.

Partner Packages

Choose Your 7 Mindsets Partnership

Start with the 7 Mindsets Core foundation and add wellness and measurement as your district grows. Every package is a partnership, not just a license, scoped to your campuses and grade bands.

Package 1

7 Mindsets Core

Establish a shared, mindset-based foundation in every classroom.

What's included

  • 7 Mindsets Core Instruction (Pre-K-12)
  • Empowering Educators adult well-being platform
  • Professional learning and onboarding
  • Resource Hub: videos, tools, and activities
Best for: districts building a common mindset-based foundation.

Package 3

7 Mindsets Core + Wellness + Insights

Make growth visible and guide instruction with measurement.

Everything in Core + Wellness, plus

  • Insights Competency Measurement: the only direct measure of core competencies, K-8
  • Climate surveys for students, K-12
  • Personalized learning pathways for students
  • English and Spanish dashboards and reporting
  • Data Review Workshops that turn data into action
Best for: districts that want to measure and demonstrate impact.

Partner Packages

Choose Your 7 Mindsets Partnership

Start with the 7 Mindsets Core foundation and add wellness and measurement as your district grows. Every package is a partnership, not just a license, scoped to your campuses and grade bands.

Package 1

7 Mindsets Core

Establish a shared, mindset-based foundation in every classroom.

What's included

  • 7 Mindsets Core Instruction (Pre-K-12)
  • Empowering Educators adult well-being platform
  • Professional learning and onboarding
  • Resource Hub: videos, tools, and activities
Best for: districts building a common mindset-based foundation.

Package 3

7 Mindsets Core + Wellness + Insights

Make growth visible and guide instruction with measurement.

Everything in Core + Wellness, plus

  • Insights Competency Measurement: the only direct measure of core competencies, K-8
  • Climate surveys for students, K-12
  • Personalized learning pathways for students
  • English and Spanish dashboards and reporting
  • Data Review Workshops that turn data into action
Best for: districts that want to measure and demonstrate impact.

In Their Words

What Partner Districts Are Saying

Districts that partner with 7 Mindsets are building stronger cultures and seeing measurable change. Here is what that looks like in their words.

We've seen a lot of growth in a lot of ways. Our students are more connected to each other and even to themselves, and the adults are learning more about who they are through the 7 Mindsets.

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Dr. Ann Bond

Asst. Superintendent, Peoria Public Schools, IL

One way we can get our parents and community involved in the 7 Mindsets is just by speaking and having a common language, making sure that we have parent newsletters, and that we're communicating our vision through the schools, and speaking that language across all our districts.

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Julia Sarmiento-Cohen

Supervisor, Resiliency, Character & Life Skills Education, HCPS, FL

We implemented 7 Mindsets about four years ago, and we were looking for a program that would serve not only our students, but our staff, and we have found that it encompasses everything that we could use for our students, staff, and even our community. I don't think we realized the impact that it could make in our community.

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Cindy Apple

Principal, Broadmoor 3-5 Elementary, KS

The Transformation Framework

Our Products and Services

The 7 Mindsets Transformation Framework brings together the products and services schools need to shift culture, schoolwide and across tiers. From mindset-based learning and skills-based mental health and wellness to leadership development, measurement, and educator well-being, each solution can stand alone or work together as one connected system for measurable, lasting impact.

7 Mindsets Core Instruction

A mindset-based PreK-12, primarily Tier 1 learning solution that builds mindsets, life skills, and character through easy-to-implement, flexible, teacher-led curriculum.

7 Mindsets Wellness

A K-12 mental health and wellness solution with facilitated and interactive pathways for Tier 1 prevention and Tier 2 and 3 intervention.

7 Mindsets Insights

High-quality, proven measurement tools and surveys that guide students’ growth and development and measure progress over time.

Empowering Educators

Flexible, job-embedded learning to support educator well-being and mindset growth.

Culture Immersion

7 Mindsets made visible across campuses, embedded in initiatives, and serving as a common language for students, staff, families, and community partners.

Leadership Consulting, Coaching & PD

Results-driven services that empower leadership teams, strengthen educator confidence, build buy-in, and drive lasting change for students, educators, and communities.

Student Leadership & Voice

Peer-led experiences that reinforce leadership, purpose, and positive school culture.

Life-Changing Events

Mindsets University builds educator and leader capacity; the Ultimate Life Summit empowers students with personal growth and leadership skills.

The Transformation Framework

Our Products and Services

The 7 Mindsets Transformation Framework brings together the products and services schools need to shift culture, schoolwide and across tiers. From mindset-based learning and skills-based mental health and wellness to leadership development, measurement, and educator well-being, each solution can stand alone or work together as one connected system for measurable, lasting impact.

7 Mindsets Core Instruction

A mindset-based PreK-12, primarily Tier 1 learning solution that builds mindsets, life skills, and character through easy-to-implement, flexible, teacher-led curriculum.

7 Mindsets Wellness

A K-12 mental health and wellness solution with facilitated and interactive pathways for Tier 1 prevention and Tier 2 and 3 intervention.

7 Mindsets Insights

High-quality, proven measurement tools and surveys that guide students’ growth and development and measure progress over time.

Empowering Educators

Flexible, job-embedded learning to support educator well-being and mindset growth.

Culture Immersion

7 Mindsets made visible across campuses, embedded in initiatives, and serving as a common language for students, staff, families, and community partners.

Leadership Consulting, Coaching & PD

Results-driven services that empower leadership teams, strengthen educator confidence, build buy-in, and drive lasting change for students, educators, and communities.

Student Leadership & Voice

Peer-led experiences that reinforce leadership, purpose, and positive school culture.

Life-Changing Events

Mindsets University builds educator and leader capacity; the Ultimate Life Summit empowers students with personal growth and leadership skills.

Evidence Districts Can Take to the Board

Independently Proven at Scale

ESSA Level II evidence validation by Instructure Research Team
Instructure Research Team - ESSA Level IV Evidence - 2026 - 2026-01-29
Instructure Level 2 ESSA 2025
Instructure Research Team - ESSA Level IV Evidence - 2026 - 2026-01-29

58,000+

Students in the 2025 independent study, Hillsborough County Public Schools

Level 2

ESSA evidence of impact across achievement, behavior, attendance, and self-efficacy

Level 4

ESSA validation of the research-based rationale behind the framework

5M+

Students and educators reached across all 50 states since 2009

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