Launchpad Showcase

A culminating activity where students apply their AI skills to a real-world college or workplace simulation, presenting their findings in a digital showcase.

MKMichelle Kaske

Lesson #7

inAI Ally Unit

Launchpad Showcase

A culminating activity where students apply their AI skills to a real-world college or workplace simulation, presenting their findings in a digital showcase.

MKMichelle Kaske

Lesson #7

inAI Ally Unit

Iceberg Investigators Presentation Slides

Weaving Worlds

A 3-lesson unit on culture, identity, empathy, and building an inclusive school community. Students explore the cultural iceberg, share personal perspective narratives, and collaborate on actionable school-wide inclusion plans.

Cynthia Rios

Helping Hands Comprehension

A comprehension lesson based on the book 'Helping Hands' by Anna Prokos, designed specifically for students with autism. It includes visual-supported question slides and a teacher facilitation guide with structured prompting hierarchies.

Saiko Otake

Helping Hands Teacher Guide

A comprehensive teacher facilitation guide and answer key based on the picture book 'Helping Hands'. Includes structured prompting hierarchies, error-correction procedures, autism-specific behavioral supports, and visual lesson cues.

Saiko Otake

True Influence Journey

A comprehensive restorative leadership and peer advocacy sequence designed for students transitioning to middle school. It guides students from understanding their social influence to actively protecting peers and spreading positive school culture.

Marcia Cullinane

Speech Eligibility Framework

A comprehensive framework and unified decision-making guide for CSE members to determine eligibility, severity, and discontinuation of speech-language services.

Krista Legge

Helping Hands Slides

High-contrast visual comprehension slides designed for students with autism, based on the picture book 'Helping Hands' by Anna Prokos. Features large typography (32px+), color-coded option blocks with clear visual icons, and explicit page-illustration references.

Saiko Otake

MD Mission

A comprehensive lesson containing visual supports and activities to prepare children with autism (ages 6-8) for doctor visits, focusing on sensory expectations, coping strategies, and pain communication.

Bryn Afflitto

Speech Eligibility Guide

An expanded five-page professional decision-making guide and clinical framework for CSE members to determine speech-language eligibility, severity, and service continuation. Features significantly larger fonts, structured severity matrices, clear exit standards, and an improved educational effect assessment worksheet with generous writing space.

Krista Legge

Social Media Showdown

A high-energy, collaborative staff training session built around a competitive trivia game. Staff work in teams to analyze realistic scenarios and master MetroWest YMCA's Social Networking Policy (Appendix IV, Updated 6/2024), emphasizing child safety, professional boundaries, and brand protection.

Jen Hyman

Interactive Pain Scale

A colorful, print-ready 1-10 visual pain rating scale (Ouch Meter) featuring expressive faces and clean color coding from green to red for children with autism.

Bryn Afflitto

Coping Choice Board

A beautiful 1-page visual menu choice board with 6 self-regulation coping strategies and interactive cut-out cards for autistic children to use during doctor visits.

Launchpad Showcase

The Launchpad Project Brief