Tenacity

Tenacity Resources

• Goal Setting & Reflection – Students pick a goal and journal progress including challenges.
• Perseverance Stations – Classroom stations with puzzles or tasks that require sticking with it.
• “I Can’t Do It… Yet” Chart – Reframe challenges by adding “yet.”
• Story Problem Solving – Groups tackle tricky problems and talk about strategies they used.

📚 Read‑Aloud Books

• A Kids Book About Perseverance — encourages keeping at something hard.
• The Most Magnificent Thing — resilience through trial and error.
• Rosie Revere, Engineer — persistence leads to invention.
• Perseverance Makes Me Stronger — overcoming obstacles with confidence.
• Brave Irene — working through challenges to reach a goal. 

🎥 Tenacity Videos

Click to show in class or morning meeting:
• PBS KIDS Talk About: Perseverance — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlHse7cI9jg YouTube
• ClassDojo: Perseverance (Part 1) — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOaFwwLyTRo YouTube
• PBS: Perseverance SEL Clip — https://pbskids.org/videos/watch/perseverance/655853 PBS KIDS

🎶 Tenacity Songs

• Try Everything – Shakira (uplifting message about trying and trying again)

• Keep On Trying Song – Jack Hartmann (focus on persistence)

• Don’t Give Up – Sesame Street ft. Bruno Mars (perseverance theme)
 

🧠 Classroom Tips

• Promote effort over perfection; celebrate small wins.
• Tie tenacity to growth mindset conversations and learning from mistakes.
• Have students reflect on what worked and what didn’t after a challenge.
• Use visuals like “Yet” charts to reframe difficulty.

📎 Teacher Resource Links

• Perseverance Activities & SEL Tools for Students:
https://www.commonsense.org/education/articles/we-all-teach-sel-perseverance-activities-and-tools-for-students/