Fifteen years. One conviction. The process can be taught.
MyGRIT Course® was built by Lisa, Founder and CEO, after fifteen years of working directly with students, educators, families, and institutions who were all experiencing the same gap from different angles. Students trying hard and still falling short. Parents wanting to help and not knowing how. Educators watching capable students disengage. Institutions measuring outcomes without ever seeing the effort underneath them.
The pattern was always the same. Students were not failing because they lacked intelligence. They were failing because they were never taught the process of learning itself. How to think about new material before class. How to take notes that encode rather than transcribe. How to study in a way that builds durable knowledge rather than temporary familiarity. How to prepare for an exam by retrieving rather than re-reading.
Lisa is a co-author of the peer-reviewed article "Hierarchical Mentoring: A Transformative Strategy for Improving Diversity and Retention in Undergraduate STEM Disciplines," published in a peer-reviewed academic journal. Her scholarship is grounded in the same population MyGRIT Course® was built to serve: underrepresented students in higher education who arrive with full capability and insufficient process.
The Effort Learning Model™, the DGRP™ framework, the QI Tool™, and the Twin AI™ companion are the result of that fifteen years of development, refined through direct work with students, tested against learning science, and designed to be adopted by individual learners, parents, educators, and entire institutions.
Where the system was tested before it became a platform.
The Effort Learning Model™ was not designed in theory and then built into software. It was developed through direct one-on-one tutoring work with K-12 students between 2021 and 2022, implemented alongside a trained second practitioner, and documented session by session in shared student question tracking tools that became the prototype for the DGRP™ analytics dashboard in the app.
Students who used the question generation cycle progressed from recall-level questions to application-level questions across repeated sessions. Students developed the ability to identify what they actually understood versus what they only thought they understood. And the ELA 7 exercise — where students wrote their own test questions — became the direct conceptual foundation for the QI Tool™.
This is not a theoretical framework. It is a system built from observation, refined through practice, and now formalized into a platform.
Formative research conducted in private tutoring settings, 2021 to 2022. Preliminary observational data. Independent validation studies planned for Year 1 and Year 2 post-launch.
Not edtech that happened to care about equity. Learning equity that built the technology.
MyGRIT Course® is not an edtech company that happened to care about equity. It is a learning equity organization that built technology because nothing else was adequate to the mission.