Bending Your Brain

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

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.

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 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.

Students apply their deep listening and empathy skills to design a school-wide inclusion campaign or classroom standard, designing collaborative action items.

Students engage in active empathy and narrative exchange, analyzing how personal experiences and cultural backgrounds shape our perspectives of shared environments.

Students explore the concept of the cultural iceberg, distinguishing between visible elements of culture and deep, invisible values, to recognize the richness of identity.

A comprehensive lesson package designed to teach students how to recognize initiation blocks, launch tasks using structured strategies, and self-monitor their focus independently. includes presentation slides, a teacher facilitation guide, and a student self-monitoring workbook.

Focuses on creating a sustainable positive culture through daily small actions, prompting students to track their leadership and reflect on how positive behavior spreads. Features read-and-respond profiles of real student leaders.

Students explore what it means to be a 'shield' for peers in middle school rather than a passive bystander or an instigator. Features narrative read-and-respond case studies on standing up to social exclusion and rumors.

A interactive, high-energy staff training lesson designed to review the MetroWest YMCA Code of Conduct (Appendix I) through active team play and situational analysis.

A collection of matching visual aids and signs to help manage classroom routines and expectations, including entry and exit procedures.

A restorative leadership module designed for a 5th-grade student transitioning to middle school. Focuses on channeling natural social influence into positive leadership, specifically protecting and looking out for others, rather than leading peers into conflict.

A rapid, action-oriented lesson designed for school leaders to analyze, audit, and draft their All-Tier Systemic MTSS leadership team in under five minutes.

A reading comprehension lesson designed for 3rd-grade special education. It includes three narrative passages with three paragraphs each, focusing on sequencing events and literal recall questions (who, what, where).

A reading comprehension lesson focused on narrative sequencing and simple literal recall for 3rd-grade special education students. Features three engaging, three-paragraph short stories with tailored open-ended questions.

A structured, action-oriented lesson to teach parking lot safety rules, emphasizing the "Stop, Look, Hold Hands" routine and staying next to the vehicle.

A concrete, sensory-friendly lesson teaching children how to identify "safe adults" (police officers, store employees) and use structured communication routines if separated from a caregiver.

A highly visual, structured lesson focusing on understanding traffic lights, pedestrian crosswalk signals, and the action-steps for crossing the street safely.

A highly structured, sensory-friendly lesson designed for children aged 6-8 with autism to learn and practice critical community safety directions through social narratives, visual support cards, and hands-on matching games.

A structured framework for conducting supportive, restorative conversations with students following an emotional outburst or classroom removal.