An immersive budgeting simulation where students plan a cross-country road trip with a fixed pool of resources, forcing hard trade-offs between speed, comfort, and cost to model real-world economic decision-making.
A multi-day student showcase of the Financial Freedom Project where students present their budget plans, career paths, and financial decisions, while peers actively engage using an Audience Passport.
A comprehensive evaluation toolkit for the Project X Leadership Summit at Franklin Central Junior High. This includes a 10-question pre-summit expectations survey and a 10-question post-summit evaluation and reflection survey designed for 7th and 8th graders.
A 30-to-45-minute sports-themed advisory lesson for 7th-grade boys and girls preparing for termination or transition. This interactive session uses a basketball playbook framework to reflect on personal growth, build future coping strategies, and process ending group/class bonds.
A presentation of advice and reflections from the graduating Class of 2026 to the incoming Class of 2030, helping freshmen transition smoothly to high school.
A welcoming, student-centered lesson designed to display wisdom and real advice from the AHS Class of 2026 to the incoming Class of 2030, displayed on a large screen during advisory or orientation.
An intensive ERMHS therapy lesson designed to help students build tolerance to unexpected changes. Students learn and practice the 'Stop, Breathe, Talk, Plan' coping framework through direct instruction, interactive role-plays, and personalized visual strategy cards.
A reflective portfolio project where sixth-grade students curate and reflect on their personal and academic achievements. This lesson provides teachers and students with a structured, celebratory, and growth-oriented end-of-year showcase.
A reflective portfolio project where sixth-graders curate, showcase, and reflect on their personal and academic achievements from the school year. This lesson guides students to cultivate a growth mindset and celebrate their unique progress before the summer transition.
An empowering high school transition workshop for 8th-grade students, focusing on managing academic anxiety, building support networks, and setting actionable goals.
A welcoming lesson for incoming 9th graders at Arlington High School, featuring words of wisdom from the graduating senior class to ease transition anxiety and inspire involvement.
This lesson introduces students to real-world career fields (Healthcare, Trades, Education, Retail, Engineering, Restaurant, Animal Care) while exploring how each industry organizes authority and resolves crises. Students research job roles and solve situational scenarios using industry-specific chains of command.
Week 6 synthesizes curriculum learnings on values, media literacy, self-talk, and boundaries into a future-self vision and group celebration.
Week 5 explores peer dynamics, social comparison, and the power of boundary setting, teaching girls how to say "no" and protect their emotional energy.
Week 4 introduces the concept of the inner critic, helps girls identify their negative self-talk patterns, and teaches practical self-compassion tools and positive affirmations.
Week 3 shifts the narrative from how bodies look to what they can do, cultivating appreciation, strength, and respect for the physical self.
Week 2 dives into media literacy, analyzing how social media filters and curated feeds distort reality, and building critical awareness of online beauty standards.
Week 1 focuses on building group safety, establishing core values, and helping girls discover their unique personal strengths instead of comparing themselves to others.
A lesson presenting authentic advice and worry-busting quotes from the graduating senior class to incoming 9th-grade students.
A 90-minute active learning lesson designed to build respectful, cooperative listening habits through engaging classroom challenges, without the distraction of physical worksheets.
An advisory lesson structured around real advice and reflections from graduating high school seniors. It guides incoming 9th graders through key strategies for high school success, balancing academic pressure, building healthy social circles, and letting go of common anxieties.
The final session focuses on celebrating progress, establishing long-term academic habits, creating an ongoing emergency protocol for grades, and reinforcing a growth mindset.
This session focuses on self-advocacy and teacher communication, helping students practice how to ask for help, draft professional emails, and prepare for one-on-one conferences.
This session introduces high-impact, evidence-based study techniques like active recall and spaced repetition, helps students create a study toolkit, and addresses exam anxiety.
This session centers on organizational strategies, including cleaning out physical and digital clutter, establishing a systematic folder/binder layout, and optimizing their home study environments.
This session focuses on helping students identify time-wasters, learn to prioritize tasks using the Urgency Matrix, and construct a functional weekly calendar.
The introductory session focuses on establishing group norms, understanding high school credit requirements, facing academic reality, and identifying personal motivations for credit recovery.
An empowering transition workshop designed to help 8th-grade students manage academic anxiety, identify school support networks, and set actionable goals for their upcoming high school journey.
A 10-minute session exploring how to handle frustration when others move too slowly or act as speed bumps, teaching scripts to ask for space and practical tools for cognitive patience.
A supportive, reflective lesson designed to help middle school students process academic dishonesty, understand the root causes of their choices, and build practical habits for future academic integrity.
A comprehensive Tier 2 small group counseling intervention designed to reduce verbal aggression referrals, teach self-regulation, and establish prosocial communication skills in chronic offenders.
A curated collection of real advice from graduating seniors to incoming 9th graders at Arlington High School, presented in a beautifully styled slideshow.
A functional life-skills lesson where students learn to prepare simple, nutritious, heat-free meals. Students practice reading recipes, measuring ingredients, and maintaining food hygiene to boost independence at home.
A high-school level social communication lesson focused on reading between the lines, helping students decode sarcasm, indirect requests, and implied meanings through structured analysis and real-world scenarios.
An immersive deep-sea simulation game where students act as submarine radio operators. They master reflective listening, empathy, and validation to decode distressed signals and navigate communication trenches.
A gamified social skills lesson focusing on reading non-verbal cues, decoding tone of voice, and mastering emotional self-regulation through a collaborative turn-based simulation.
A highly engaging lesson where students analyze social cues, body language, and vocal pitch in videos to decode a character's true tone of voice and social intent.
A high school transition and career readiness lesson where students conceptualize their future success by identifying the mentors, advisors, and peer archetypes they need, culminating in a strategic networking plan.
A project-based lesson where students create an interactive campus map and audio guide for rising sixth graders. Students practice cartography, reflective writing, and community leadership to ease the transition for future students.
An interactive 4th-6th grade ELA and behavioral lesson where students perform reader's theater scripts, practicing oral reading fluency while exploring key de-escalation strategies and constructive conflict resolution.