A structured, logic-based lesson designed for older adolescents to build emotional intelligence, manage anger, reframe negative thoughts, and navigate relationship boundaries using CBT concepts and practical logs.
A 10-session course for high school students focused on developing healthy communication, boundaries, and empathy across romantic, platonic, and digital relationships. Students engage in interactive role-plays, games, and reflections to build practical social-emotional skills.
A 20-day series of functional math, life skills, and vocational morning worksheets designed to build real-world independence. Each daily worksheet includes personal information practice, coin and bill calculations, budgeting, next-dollar-up calculations, and real-world functional reading.
Day 20 Morning Skills Worksheet. Focuses on personal profile details, adding $1 bills, adding mixed cash and coins, calculating coffee shop totals with next-dollar-up, budgeting a donut, reading a coffee shop receipt, identifying safety/appropriateness/health scenarios, and solving a busy barista vocational scenario.
A comprehensive 5-lesson unit for 9th graders on identifying, requesting, and formatting professional references. Students transition from brainstorming their network to producing a polished reference document and learning long-term relationship maintenance.
An introductory orientation to the AVID I Coffeehouse program, establishing the norms, expectations, syllabus, and professional leadership culture of Room 267.
Day 19 Morning Skills Worksheet. Focuses on personal profile details, adding dimes, adding mixed cash and coins, calculating hardware shop totals with next-dollar-up, budgeting a safety mask, reading a chemical hazard safety warning, identifying safety/appropriateness/health scenarios, and solving a leaking container vocational scenario.
A comprehensive unit for 10th-grade students on navigating the digital job market. Students learn to decode job descriptions for ATS optimization, master job search platforms, build organizational systems for tracking applications, manage their time effectively, and maintain a safe and professional digital footprint.
A Cognitive Behavioral and Strengths-Based lesson focused on helping teenagers master impulse control. Students learn to map their triggers, manage household and peer pressures, and establish digital boundaries.
Day 18 Morning Skills Worksheet. Focuses on personal profile details, adding quarters, adding mixed cash and coins, calculating warm lunch soup totals with next-dollar-up, budgeting a metal thermos, reading a chicken soup nutrition label, identifying safety/appropriateness/health scenarios, and solving a kitchen safety vocational scenario.
An 8-week Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) group curriculum for high schoolers experiencing anxiety, combining somatic mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness skills.
Day 17 Morning Skills Worksheet. Focuses on personal profile details, adding five $5 bills, adding mixed cash and coins, calculating restaurant/diner totals with next-dollar-up, budgeting a coffee mug, reading a restaurant server pay stub, identifying safety/appropriateness/health scenarios, and solving a diner spill vocational scenario.
Day 16 Morning Skills Worksheet. Focuses on personal profile details, adding four $10 bills, adding mixed cash and coins, calculating deli shop totals with next-dollar-up, budgeting a lunch combo, reading a deli shop menu, identifying safety/appropriateness/health scenarios, and solving a kitchen safety vocational scenario.
