Equip students with structured techniques and confidence strategies to initiate conversations in diverse social settings.
Teaches students how to join an ongoing peer conversation or group activity at school (e.g., at lunch or recess) using clear, structured visual steps. Includes an interactive slide deck and a visual reflection worksheet.
Focuses on grocery shopping, making a grocery list, identifying food groups, and understanding store sections to locate items independently.
Teaches safety signs, navigation, and community navigation skills. Students learn to read pedestrian signs, crosswalk signals, and locate help in public spaces.
Teaches critical safety skills for the home environment, including dealing with emergencies, basic first aid, and managing visitors safely.
Focuses on household cleaning tasks, organizing chores, and maintaining a clean living space. Students practice sorting chores by frequency and completing a chore checklist.
Covers essential kitchen safety rules, using simple kitchen tools, and selecting healthy food. Students practice identifying safe and unsafe kitchen scenarios.
Teaches students to check the weather and choose appropriate clothing and accessories. Focuses on seasonal dressing and selecting clothing for safety and comfort.
Focuses on morning routines and personal hygiene. Students learn to use visual checklists for brushing teeth, washing up, and self-care.
Students practice making independent choices, expressing preferences, and setting boundaries (saying "yes" or "no") using structured choice boards, tactile sorting mats, and interactive role-play.
Students practice identifying when they need help, who to ask (teachers, peers, or helpers), and how to communicate that need using visual phrase cards and guided collaborative practice.
Students learn to recognize and communicate physical and emotional states (like tired, hungry, overwhelmed, or ready to learn) using simple gestures, vocalizations, or visual symbol cards.
A 4-week space explorer themed morning meeting series for middle school ESY scholars with disabilities. Led by Commander Sosnoff, it covers Mars Rover, Asteroid Navigation, Saturn Rings, and Nebula sectors with calendar ship logs, cosmic energy checks, stellar affirmations, and turn-and-talk communication prompts.
Days 11 to 15 focus on reading simple job postings, filling out functional job applications, understanding work sequencing, and determining theme/purpose.
Days 6 to 10 focus on reading menus, highlighting key details, and making inferences about restaurant and everyday scenarios using functional text.
Days 1 to 5 focus on identifying crucial safety signs, understanding school and transit schedules, and answering WH questions about community and adapted literary texts.
Introduces early 3-digit numbers (100-120), visual skip-counting (2s, 5s, 10s) using constellation maps, and ordering cosmic objects to build sequential logic.
Focuses on identifying double-digit numbers (10-99), representing them using ten-frames and printable base-ten icons, and writing numbers in expanded place value charts (tens and ones) with clear physical boundaries.
Covers single-digit subtraction (1-9) with cosmic countdowns, crossing-out stars or rocket fuel cells, embedded touch-points for backwards counting, and structured workspace templates.
Focuses on single-digit addition (1-9) using embedded touch-point numbers, pictorial representations of spaceships and stars, a persistent 1-20 number path, and large guided workspace boxes for physical alignment.
Week 2 focuses on mastering whole-number regrouping and multi-column carrying in the context of starship cargo inventories. Students use base-10 blocks to bundle ones into tens and tens into hundreds, bridging visual modeling directly to standard vertical algorithms.
Week 4 focuses on standard algorithm decimal addition and subtraction, multi-step problem consolidation, and direct assessment of skills to confirm crew flight readiness.
Week 3 focuses on multi-step additive reasoning, decimal subtraction, and aligning coordinates using star charts and compass tools to plan flight vectors for the fleet.
Week 2 focuses on decimal addition and subtraction with and without regrouping, using visual decimal grids and standard plastic base-10 blocks to represent tenths and hundredths in solar charging grid scenarios.
Week 1 focuses on deepening place value understanding and multi-step addition of decimals and whole numbers in space grid systems. Students practice regrouping tenths and wholes, balancing battery loads, and tracking fuel payload readings.
Grade 8 lesson focusing on unpacking a high school course syllabus, managing multiple planners, and conducting weekly self-monitoring cognitive audits.
Grade 7 lesson teaching emotional self-regulation, mindfulness habits, and cognitive reframing techniques to navigate academic pressure and anxiety.
Grade 6 lesson focusing on physical space organization, backpack triage, and establishing daily locker routines to reduce cognitive overload.
Grade 8 lesson focusing on advanced working memory hacks, active recall study strategies, self-monitoring metacognitive habits, and Cornell note-taking. Includes slides, worksheets, and visual templates.
Grade 7 lesson focusing on task duration estimation, chunking multi-step assignments, and planner mechanics. Includes printable student planners, sliding presentations, and a time estimator game.
Grade 6 lesson focusing on managing distractions, emotional self-regulation, and initiating difficult or tedious academic tasks. Includes printable student worksheets, class slides, and visual anchor charts.
The foundational curriculum map and teacher implementation guide for Brain Boss Academy. It includes the complete vertical scope and sequence of 90 lessons across Grades 6, 7, and 8, pacing suggestions, and grading rubrics.
A life skills lesson package preparing middle school students for a bowling field trip. Includes slides, a social story booklet, an expectations poster, and a prep worksheet covering safety, turn-taking, sportsmanship, and sensory coping.
A set of parent-friendly guides translating psychoeducational test scores into positive, actionable home support roadmaps.
A pair of visually striking, high-contrast printable signs to organize any kitchen or classroom space. Features separate, elegant layouts for clean and dirty dishes to maintain perfect organization.
Week 4 focuses on real-world reading comprehension, functional writing, and following multi-step directions. Students explore cosmic job charts, spaceship emergency protocols, and daily logs.
Week 3 focuses on reading comprehension and structured paragraph writing. Students learn to identify main ideas and details, track sequences, and write cohesive paragraphs using graphic organizers.
Week 2 focuses on phonics, decoding, and simple sentence structures. Students practice identifying vowel teams, correcting basic capitalization and punctuation errors, and constructing solid sentences.
Week 1 focuses on acquiring cosmic vocabulary and drafting short, creative space stories. It guides students through sensory word exploration and provides multi-tiered graphic organizers for narrative drafting.
