In one sentence
MyGRIT Course® gives students the behavioral learning system they were never handed and gives educators the visibility to support the learning process at every stage.
Behavioral learning infrastructure
The problem was never
your intelligence.
The process was just missing.
You're capable. You always were. MyGRIT Course® gives you the missing process, a clear, repeatable way to learn that brings students, parents, and educators onto the same page.
"I might not know everything. But I can learn anything I want to know."
- DGRP™
- Cognitive framework
- ELM
- 7 stages of learning
- AI
- Metacognitive companion
The brand mark
DGRP™ · in motion
Launching August 2026
The issue was never intelligence. The process was missing.
The pitch
What MyGRIT Course® actually does.
The support happens during learning, not after it.*
See how it worksThe foundational thesis
Effort is not the problem. Direction is.
- 01
Most students work hard at the wrong things: effort spent on habits that don't actually build knowledge.
- 02
Real understanding follows a process. When the process is taught, thinking and memory follow.
- 03
When everyone can see the process, students, parents, and teachers finally pull in the same direction.
The documented gap
The gap is documented. And it falls hardest on the students who work the hardest.
40%
of US college students never complete their degree
Source: National Center for Education Statistics
78%
of Texas eighth-graders will not achieve college or career milestones within six years of high school graduation
Source: Texas 2036 and George W. Bush Institute, The State of Readiness Report, 2023
86%
of economically disadvantaged students will not complete a postsecondary credential within six years
Source: Texas 2036 and George W. Bush Institute, The State of Readiness Report, 2023
The cause is not intelligence. The research is clear: most students were never taught the process of learning itself. MyGRIT Course® closes that gap before it becomes a dropout statistic.
The DGRP™ Framework
A cognitive process, not a study trick.
DGRP™ teaches students the repeatable thinking actions that produce understanding, used the same way across every subject, every grade, every assignment.
D
Distinguish
Identify what truly matters from what surrounds it.
G
Group
Organize information into cognitively useful structures.
R
Relationships
Connect ideas to build transferable understanding.
P
Perspective
Reflect, contextualize, and locate confusion deliberately.
The Effort Learning Model™
Seven stages. One coherent process. The student always knows the next action.
The Effort Learning Model™ breaks learning into the explicit stages it has always required, so students, parents, and educators operate from the same map.
Walk through ELM- Stage 1PreparingPreparation (Get Ready)
- Stage 2Active ListeningGoing to Class (Show Up)
- Stage 3Question GenerationNotes (Make It Stick)
- Stage 4OrganizingReview (Find Your Gaps)
- Stage 5RefiningHomework (Own It)
- Stage 6AnsweringStudy (Level Up)
- Stage 7EvaluatingTest Preparation (Show What You Know)
AI Companion · Sample prompt
I have a chemistry test on Thursday and I don't know where to start.
MyGRIT
Let's locate the work first. Which ELM stage are you in for this unit: review, homework, or study? And what's the one concept you can already distinguish clearly from the others?
Cognitive action
Apply Distinguish before Group. Retrieve, then explain.
Metacognitive AI Companion
An AI that asks better questions, not one that answers them for you.
The companion reinforces DGRP™, scaffolds reflection, surfaces missing links, and helps students regulate effort. It deepens cognition rather than replacing it.
Your first five minutes
What happens in your first five minutes.
This is not an onboarding checklist. It is the beginning of a different relationship with learning.
- 01Meet Your Twin
Select your AI companion's personality mode from four options: Mentor, Study Partner, Coach, or Affirming Mentor.
- 02Record your future self
A short statement about where you are going and why you are doing this work.
- 03Enter your first course
The system builds your ELA dashboard around it.
- 04Your Twin asks your first preparation question
Before you ever open a textbook or walk into class.
- 05You begin with a process, not a guess
Effort lands where it produces knowledge from the first session.
Most students sit down to study and wonder where to start. After five minutes with MyGRIT Course®, they know.
Stakeholder synchronization
One process. Aligned across the people who shape a student's learning.
Students
A clear next action at every stage. The issue was never your intelligence. The process was missing.
Parents
Support the learning process without needing subject expertise.
Educators
Reinforce engagement and visibility into how students engage with your instruction.
Schools & Universities
Stakeholder synchronization, longitudinal cognitive engagement, and observable behaviors.
15 years in development. Grounded in the research of Angela Duckworth, Dr. Saundra McGuire, and the Right Question Institute. Co-author, peer-reviewed scholarship on diversity and retention in STEM. Launching August 2026.
Read the research Frequently asked
Questions we hear most.
- Is MyGRIT Course® just another study app?
- No. Most study apps help you organize what you already know how to do. MyGRIT Course® works at a different level. It addresses the reason those tools often fail, which is that most students were never taught the actual process of learning itself. The Effort Learning Model™ gives you a seven-stage behavioral system for how to approach every learning situation. The DGRP™ framework gives you a cognitive structure that works across every subject. The Twin AI™ does not answer your questions. It asks you better ones. That is not a feature difference. It is a philosophy difference.
- How is this different from ChatGPT?
- ChatGPT is an answer-generation system. You bring a question and it produces an answer. The Twin AI™ does the opposite. It does not answer your questions. It asks you better ones. That distinction is not a product feature. It is a philosophy about what learning actually is. An AI that answers your questions makes you better at getting answers. An AI that asks you better questions makes you better at thinking.
Bring MyGRIT Course® to your school
Make the learning process visible at scale.
Pilot programs are open for schools, universities, and academic networks ready to operationalize learning science.