What Students Learn
GRiT Outcomes.
GRiT is a neuroscience-based SEL (Character Education) and leadership curriculum family rooted in relational intelligence. We leverage executive-level tools refined for education so students build the skills they need to stay ready to learn, lead, and thrive.
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What Students Learn Through GRiT
Across every GRiT program, students learn how to:
- Understand the brain under stress and build regulation skills they can use in real moments
- Grow relational intelligence through empathy, communication, boundaries, and repair
- Build resilience through habits, follow-through, and productive struggle
- Make better decisions by slowing down reactions and choosing aligned actions
- Lead themselves first through mindset, language mastery, values, and internal drivers
- Lead with others by strengthening trust, teamwork, and healthy influence
Executive-Level Tools, Leveled for Students
GRiT brings executive-level tools into education in a student-friendly way. Students practice real frameworks for communication, accountability, habits, decision-making, and leadership, then apply them to everyday school and life contexts. GRiT provides students with the durable skills they need to be college, career, and life ready.
CASEL-Aligned Skills That Transfer
The GRiT suite is CASEL-aligned, supporting the CASEL 5 competencies:
- Self-Awareness
- Self-Management
- Social Awareness
- Relationship Skills
- Responsible Decision-Making
→ Learn more about the CASEL Framework.
GRiTsel
- Grade Band: Grades 6–8 (grade-specific 6/7/8)
- Delivery: Weekly Tier 1 model
- Seat Time: 20 minutes weekly, 36 weeks
- Best Fit: Advisory, homeroom, SEL block
- What Students Learn: shared language, regulation, decision-making, relationship skills, habits, tech boundaries
- CASEL Alignment: All 5 competencies
- Measurable Outcomes: Evidence of learning built into lessons, pre/post and checkpoints; published outcomes available in white paper
- Training & Support: Asynchronous training included; GRiTsel Certified Lead Learner; ongoing support; access to annual summit
GRiTspark
- Grade Band: Grades 6–8
- Delivery: Exploratory course
- Seat Time: 45 days, full class periods (flexible pacing)
- Best Fit: Elective, exploratory, student success
- What Students Learn: neuroscience of learning, habits and grit, relational intelligence, early leadership
- CASEL Alignment: All 5 competencies
- Measurable Outcomes: Pre/post + journals, artifacts, and capstone evidence of learning; published outcomes available in white paper
- Training & Support: Asynchronous training included; GRiTspark Certified Lead Learner; ongoing support; access to annual summit
GRiTedu
- Grade Band: Grades 9–12
- Delivery: Semester course
- Seat Time: 90 days, full class periods
- Best Fit: Leadership, advisory, CTE, health, student success
- What Students Learn: self-leadership, resilience, habits, communication, team performance, mentoring, leadership multiplication
- CASEL Alignment: All 5 competencies
- Measurable Outcomes: Measurable shifts supported by course assessments and tools; published outcomes available in white paper
- Training & Support: Asynchronous training included; certified GRiTedu Lead Learner model, 5 Voices Badged; ongoing support; access to annual summit
GRiTuniversity
- Grade Band: Higher education
- Delivery: 1-credit experiential course
- Seat Time: 50 minutes weekly over a 14-week semester
- Best Fit: First-year experience, student success, leadership, retention
- What Students Learn: communication code, habits, teamwork, leadership readiness, portfolio and applied projects
- CASEL Alignment: All 5 (mapped for college readiness)
- Measurable Outcomes: Pre/post + reflection artifacts, portfolio, projects, and presentation evidence; published outcomes available in white paper
- Training & Support: Asynchronous training included; certified Lead Learner model; ongoing support; access to annual summit
