UPCOMING EVENTS + PRESENTATIONS

Raising Well-Balanced Teens & Tweens

Today’s teens face intense academic, social, and extracurricular demands. Even caring adults can unintentionally add pressure that contributes to stress, disengagement, or burnout. This workshop helps families reframe success, support balance, and strengthen connection with their tweens and teens. We’ll share research-based tools to reduce stress, encourage intrinsic motivation, and promote healthy development through adolescence. […] ...

Helping Kids Thrive in an AI World: Insights from Challenge Success-Stanford Research

Join us for an evening that brings our community together around one of the most pressing questions in education today: How can we help young people thrive in an AI-driven world? Helping Kids Thrive in an AI World: Insights from Challenge Success–Stanford Research is a special gathering for supporters who believe in redefining student success […] ...

Doing School or Loving School? Belonging, Engagement & Well-Being Insights from 30,000 NAIS Students

What can over 30,000 student voices tell us about how students are experiencing NAIS schools? This interactive session explores key findings from the Challenge Success–Stanford Survey of School Experiences, drawing on responses from students at more than 100 independent schools. Commissioned by NAIS, this is the first large-scale analysis of well-being, engagement, and belonging across […] ...

Rethinking Stress to Nurture Thriving Learners

What does it really mean to “cope”? This session explores coping as a dynamic, system-wide process that shapes how individuals and communities adapt and thrive. Whether you’re a parent/caregiver, educator, or student this session will offer fresh insights and strategies to help navigate stress, foster well-being, and enhance engagement. Learning Objectives: Build a shared understanding […] ...

Virtuous or Viceful? How K-12 and Undergraduate Students Use and Perceive Generative AI

This study uses survey data to examine how high school students’ self-reported usage patterns of AI chatbots relate to their levels of engagement, sense of belonging, perceptions of homework, and selected character strengths. Using factor analysis, we found their usage patterns differ from their perceptions of acceptable use for most academic tasks, with two exceptions: […] ...

Navigating Stress: Fostering Student Well-Being Through Adaptive Coping Strategies

What does it really mean to “cope”? This interactive session explores coping as a dynamic, system-wide process that influences how individuals and communities adapt and thrive. Drawing on thousands of student responses to the Challenge Success–Stanford Survey of Student Experiences, we will share data that highlights the critical link between students’ coping skills, their engagement […] ...

2026 Challenge Success Annual Conference

Join Us at the Challenge Success Annual Conference We’re gathering educators, school and district leaders, counselors, families, and students at Stanford University on September 26-27, 2026, to reimagine what student success can look like. Over two powerful days, you’ll learn from leading researchers and practitioners, hear directly from student voices, and leave with practical strategies […] ...