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Get a free week of Pre-K–12 Perseverance lessons, differentiated by grade level and ready to teach in 10–15 minutes. Includes videos, activities, discussion prompts, a family newsletter, and a morning announcement script. Trusted by 800+ schools.

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How a P2 lesson is designed

Understand. Engage. Reflect.

Every P2 week follows the same three-phase architecture. It's the design that makes a 15-minute daily lesson teachable across Pre-K–12, sustainable across a school year, and consistent across every classroom in a building.

Understand

Students build a shared vocabulary for the character strength. They learn what it means and what it looks like in action. The goal at this phase isn't application — it's a clear, age-appropriate understanding every student can hold.

Engage

Students move from learning about the strength to working with it. The engagement phase asks them to create, evaluate, and connect the strength to people and situations they recognize. This is where the concept starts becoming personal.

Reflect

Reflection is what turns a week of lessons into something students carry. The final phase gives them space to connect the strength to who they are — to move from "I learned about perseverance this week" to "I see myself as someone who perseveres."

Teacher proof

The model behind the results

In peer-reviewed research at the University of Vermont, P2 teachers reached 93–94% implementation fidelity — the technical term for the lesson actually getting taught the way it was designed. Hear from Julianne Riedle, a teacher at Franklin Fine Arts Center in Chicago Public Schools, on why she loves P2:

"From day one, new people, they could not make this easier on you."

- Julianne Riedle, Franklin Fine Arts Center

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