Students examine the variability of income tax depending on geography, looking at states with no income tax versus those with high rates. They will calculate the cost of living differences when factoring in local tax burdens.
A comprehensive social skills lesson focusing on the critical distinction between validating a peer's feelings and solving their problems. Includes a step-by-step clinical facilitator guide and printable, interactive role-play scenario cards.
An informational lesson exploring the rich history, core methods, and global legacy of the Burmese Vipassana meditation movement.
A comprehensive, highly structured lesson designed to teach students how to build their first resume. Includes visual presentation slides, differentiated worksheets with word banks, matching activities, and a simplified resume template with visual cues.
A 3.5-hour workshop for adults in recovery focusing on managing reactions to others' difficult behaviors. Through humor, locus of control analysis, boundary scripting, and a board game, participants learn to redirect energy from judging others to protecting their own inner peace.
A highly visual, step-by-step training lesson for answering the phone and taking orders at Pizza Paradise, utilizing a desktop anchor chart and scenario-based task cards.
A highly engaging 15-minute lesson designed to help high school students set structured, actionable summer goals across four key areas: employment/finances, mental health, skill-building, and community connection. Students learn to use the SMART framework to turn vague summer aspirations into custom, realistic blueprints.
An active customer service roleplay game for adults with IDD. Students practice essential social, communication, and problem-solving skills through authentic workplace scenarios and interactive group rotations.
A comprehensive 90-minute workplace readiness lesson on physical money handling and exact change calculations. It features a detailed slide presentation, an interactive classroom register simulation, student calculation worksheets, and a step-by-step roleplay challenge.
A dynamic rotation lesson where students split between a multimedia classroom training and a realistic, hands-on grocery checkout simulation.
A high-impact, discussion-focused group session designed for urban high schoolers to build healthy friendships, establish trust boundaries, stop gossip, and navigate what is safe to share. This lesson package includes visual slide decks, student worksheets, and teacher facilitator guides.
A comprehensive SEL lesson bundle on digital etiquette, tone misinterpretation, and respectful online communication for teens aged 13-17. Includes an interactive slide deck and an elegant table-formatted teacher facilitation guide.
A sharp, logic-forward 1-to-1 session designed to help a student break down negative assumptions, understand the logical purpose of school rules, and develop alternative explanations for teacher actions.
A comprehensive training lesson that integrates core skills of professional time management, strategic buffer building, deadline negotiations, cognitive energy allocation, and high-performance workplace triage.
This lesson focuses on personal identification details like address, phone number, and birthdate, designed for multi-level adult literacy learners ranging from pre-literate to transitional writers.
Students apply unit learning to a chosen career or post-secondary education path, identifying workplace accommodations and constructing a self-advocacy plan.
A comprehensive mental health lesson for high schoolers focusing on cognitive restructuring. Clients learn to identify cognitive distortions, challenge anxious thoughts, and reframe them into balanced perspectives through guided role-play and structured tracking.
A mindful technology lesson designed for high school students to analyze their digital habits and design a custom summer wellness contract that balances screen time with dopamine-boosting offline activities.
A social-emotional learning lesson that equips middle and high school students with a physical, tactile 'Self-Kindness Compass' to guide self-talk and practice self-compassion during unstructured times or moments of self-criticism.
A structured counseling lesson designed for a 16-year-old student to address anger-induced screen-seeking behavior and build self-directed limits on tech use. Combining CBT and Motivational Interviewing, this lesson equips the counselor and student with tools to de-escalate emotional reactivity and establish sustainable digital boundaries.
A comprehensive 4-hour training curriculum for first-year camp counselors at the Metro West YMCA. This training establishes essential safety norms, communication habits, and the 'FARM' reward culture to set staff up for a high-impact summer.
Under the Pre-ETS category of Counseling on Post-Secondary Opportunities, this lesson equips transitioning high school students with knowledge of workplace accommodations, visible/invisible disabilities, and self-advocacy. Students explore equity rights to prepare for post-secondary career and vocational opportunities.
The grand finale week of the curriculum. Students execute a massive live bracket tournament and showcase their esports career portfolios.
Covers mental stamina, character matchup analysis, and competitive coaching roles. Students learn how to analyze gameplay video (VOD review) and support team members mentally.
Team-based competitive Minecraft gameplay including Bedwars, Spleef, and build-offs. Teaches communication, tournament coordination, brackets, and conflict resolution.
Introduction to competitive Minecraft building and speed builds. Explores the career of game design, map making, and spatial visualization.
Advanced mechanical study of Smash Ultimate focusing on frame data, hitboxes, and stage control. Integrates shoutcasting, live commentary skills, and vocal health.
Introduction to competitive Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and basic movement options. Focuses on healthy physical habits (ergonomics, stretches) and team management careers.
Session 20 of the Student Success Academy counseling group. Focuses on discovering career paths, taking a career interest survey, and researching salaries, training, and job outlooks for chosen pathways.
Session 19 of the Student Success Academy counseling group. Introduces Topic 4 (Future Planning) by guiding students to write a detailed narrative projecting themselves into their 25-year-old lives, discussing jobs, housing, transport, and relationships.
Session 18 of the Student Success Academy counseling group. Focuses on identifying healthy vs. unhealthy relationship patterns, practicing boundary communication, and completing a personal checklist.
Session 17 of the Student Success Academy counseling group. Focuses on identifying personal emotional triggers, somatic warning signs, and building a personalized coping menu to manage big emotions in school.
A high school counseling and reflection lesson centered on Shirley Jackson's 'The Lottery'. Students analyze peer pressure, scapegoating, and the ethical courage required to challenge harmful traditions through a structured Socratic fishbowl discussion.
Session 16 of the Student Success Academy counseling group. Focuses on identifying peer pressure types (vaping, skipping, leaving campus) and practicing assertive, face-saving boundary responses through realistic role-plays.
Session 15 of the Student Success Academy counseling group. Focuses on the cognitive impacts of social media highlights, guiding students to dissect comparison loops and commit to practical digital boundaries.
Session 14 of the Student Success Academy counseling group. Focuses on peer influence and boundary-setting, guiding students to analyze the long-term academic and social consequences of helpful vs. unhelpful friend behaviors using a card-sorting activity.
Session 13 of the Student Success Academy counseling group. Introduces Topic 3 (Relationships & Decision Making) by helping students map their relational support networks across concentric circles of trust.
Session 12 of the Student Success Academy counseling group. Focuses on evaluating midpoint progress across grades, attendance, and goal achievements, making concrete plans for the remainder of the semester.
Session 11 of the Student Success Academy counseling group. Focuses on creating one small, sustainable daily success habit using a visual habit tracker and a custom reward system.
Session 10 of the Student Success Academy counseling group. Focuses on the cognitive behavioral concept that action precedes motivation, dismantling the myth of waiting to 'feel like it' before taking action.
A high-impact social-emotional learning lesson designed for high school students, particularly young men, to navigate peer conflict in the moment. The lesson focuses on recognizing triggers, maintaining control during verbal escalation, and executing rapid, face-saving exit strategies before a conflict becomes physical.
Session 9 of the Student Success Academy counseling group. Focuses on identifying individual attendance barriers (such as sleep, anxiety, or transit) and drafting highly specific, manageable micro-solutions.