A 30-minute Tier 2 group support session for 8th graders focused on validating emotions and building practical strategies for a successful transition to high school.
A highly visual lesson helping students navigate social anxiety in new environments by distinguishing facts from opinions to make empathetic, responsible choices.
A lesson exposing cognitive biases in studying. Students learn to calibrate their progress honestly, avoid the fluency illusion, and build an error-correcting growth mindset.
A lesson on elaboration and generation. Students learn how to build memory hooks by connecting concepts to real-world analogies and solving problems before being taught.
A lesson introducing interleaving and variation. Students learn why blocking practice feels productive but fails, and how mixing up skills builds durable real-world mastery.
A lesson focused on beating the natural forgetting curve. Students learn how spacing out their study blocks triggers memory consolidation and how to schedule long-term retention.
A lesson centered on the primary driver of memory retention: retrieval practice. Students discover why passive reading is a cognitive illusion and learn to build effortful self-testing habits.
A complete mini-unit lesson designed to help students master study skills, identify personal academic risk factors (why they can't focus), discover their study prime time, and apply the SOAR framework through a structured study risk assessment and goal planning process.
A communication and social-emotional learning lesson for middle schoolers designed to teach constructive dialogue, active listening, and healthy conflict resolution.
A lesson exploring the boundary between public and private spaces on social media, using a visual choice board icebreaker, concrete social scenarios, and a video reflection to build digital citizenship.
An interactive, student-led curriculum empowering middle and high school leaders to de-escalate minor peer conflicts during high-stress transition periods, building sustainable restorative justice skills.
A collaborative mental health workshop designed to help students navigate summer transition anxiety by identifying stressors, mapping coping strategies, and co-creating a personalized proactive emotional regulation plan.
A collaborative workshop designed to help students identify summer stressors and co-create proactive plans for emotional regulation outside of school. This lesson builds concrete coping strategies and 'safety nets' for students transitioning to summer break.
A lesson focusing on critical digital citizenship skills, helping students navigate the web safely and make informed choices when posting, interacting, or pondering online situations.
A transformative lesson introducing students to the psychological science of gratitude, centered on the 'Three Good Things' daily habit to build mental resilience, optimism, and emotional wellbeing.
Focuses on building self-worth, identifying negative media messages, and shifting personal and peer narratives through positive self-talk strategies.
Teaches student leaders to identify the fine line between teasing and bullying, and equips them with safe, practical upstander intervention and peer support frameworks.
Equips PACT student leaders with core concepts of proactive inclusion, empathy, and positive peer-to-peer connection. Features a hands-on inclusion blueprint worksheet and peer training presentation.