Introduces the fundamental differences between checking and savings accounts, the role of banks, and the importance of FDIC insurance.
A comprehensive career exploration framework and counselor planning toolkit for grades K-12. This curriculum maps academic subjects to real-world career paths (college, trade school, and workforce) and provides counselors with implementation templates, annual pacing calendars, and a school-wide Career Day blueprint.
A modern, evidence-based lesson helping high schoolers identify, categorize, and rate coping strategies to build a personalized self-care and crisis-prevention plan. It includes an instructional slide deck to introduce coping science and categories, paired with a structured, print-ready coping planner.
A clean, highly structured student workbook to guide high schoolers in identifying, auditing, and rating personalized coping strategies, documenting early warning stress signals, and detailing an action-oriented emergency protocol with personal and national lifelines.
A high school counseling sequence focused on building perspective-taking, cognitive flexibility, and active collaboration strategies for Grade 12 Seniors navigating professional capstone projects, advanced career-technical labs, and workplace transitions.
A Unitarian Universalist youth group session designed to foster empathy, respect, and deep connection using the Empathy Iceberg model, small-group covenants, and a sacred chalice ritual.
An interactive slide deck introducing the physiology of stress and the four coping categories (Sensory, Cognitive, Expressive, Distraction). It features large, readable typography and visual frameworks to guide high schoolers in rating their strategies based on activation effort and effectiveness.
A year-round community-building sequence for TK-6 staff, structured seasonally from August through June. Grounded in a 'Village Kinship' theme to foster professional empathy, shared resilience, and deep peer-to-peer appreciation.
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.
A 2-page session guide for Unitarian Universalist youth advisors. It outlines a 60-minute empathy curriculum, including chalice readings, small-group covenanting, active listening exercises, and guidelines for managing sensitive discussions.
An analytical, social-emotional learning sequence designed to dismantle peer pressure, social exclusion, and bullying. Students explore the psychology of herd mentality, build deep perspective-taking skills, and engage in restorative self-analysis through modern, high-contrast, case-file-inspired materials.
A high-quality co-completion toolkit for parents and 11-year-old pre-teens. Focuses on active listening, emotional attunement, conflict de-escalation, and establishing daily connection rituals.
A 2-page discussion guide and personal journal designed for Unitarian Universalist youth groups. It contains a sacred circle covenant, chalice readings, empathy iceberg reflections, and small group prompts centered on inherent worth and interdependence.
