During the first quarter of the 2024 to 2025 academic year, Career Coaches taught sixth and seventh grade students about GRIT life skills and explored how students use GRIT in their daily lives. GRIT is an acronym for the strength of mind that allows a person to overcome pain, hardship, or adversity.
Taking failure as an opportunity to learn and become better.
Bouncing back from difficult times or situations and coming back stronger after facing adversity.
Doing the right thing when no one is looking and being true to yourself.
Never giving up on yourself and your goals.
Using GRIT, students can apply strategies to persevere in their personal and academic lives to work through difficult situations. They showcased their new knowledge of GRIT by working in groups to identify scenarios demonstrating GRIT. Additionally, seventh grade students took the Personality Assessment, also known as the Values Assessment, in Pathful to evaluate how they have been strong in their life. Career Coach Spencer Evans asked teachers what obstacles they have overcome using GRIT to get to where they are today to help students understand how other people use growth, resilience, integrity, and tenacity.