G.R.I.T. Workbook for School Counselors

Four hundred students. One of you.

What keeps a school counselor effective across a career isn't compassion alone. It's grit — Great Resilience in Time, the ability to push back against an impossible caseload and keep serving students.

Dr. India White's G.R.I.T. framework names the four things that build it: Growth mindset, what you do when you can't reach a student. Resilience, recovering instead of only enduring. Intentional self-efficacy, deciding on purpose that you're capable. Time management, because grit isn't a good week — it's resilience sustained across years.

Duckworth found the grittiest students were more likely to graduate even after accounting for test scores and support — which is exactly what you're trying to build in them. Grit can be built, in you and in the students you serve.

Scheduling, testing, applications, and the crisis that walks in at 2:15.

Includes: a scored G.R.I.T. self-assessment, the full G.R.I.T. framework, and practical strategies for building grit in yourself and your students. Roughly 40 pages, print-ready PDF.

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