From Achievement to Agency: Why the Mentor Mindset Is the Future of School

For decades, schools have been designed around achievement—grades, test scores, and carefully mapped pathways to success. But the world our students are entering no longer rewards compliance or perfection. It rewards agency. In this episode, Stephen Carter explores the growing shift from the Age of Achievement to the Age of Agency, drawing on research from the National Association of Independent Schools, David Yeager’s Mentor Mindset framework, and emerging insights about learning in an AI-dr...