This lesson explores how everyday school habits and academic skills directly translate into professional success, focusing on soft skills, organization, and critical thinking.
The core lesson of the Brain Glitch series, introducing cognitive distortions as 'system glitches' and using a cooperative board game to teach students how to identify and debug them.
The final curriculum review and introduction to Core Beliefs. Students synthesize their learning to create a 'Master Patch'—a set of balanced core beliefs for long-term mental resilience.
Addresses 'Emotional Reasoning' and 'Labeling'. Students learn to identify when their emotions are overwriting logic and how to strip away harmful labels from their self-identity.
Targets 'Catastrophizing' and 'Fortune Telling'. Students learn to stop the 'what if' spiral by assessing actual probabilities and creating contingency plans.
Explores 'Mind Reading' and 'Personalization'. Students act as signal decoders to separate actual social cues from glitched assumptions about what others are thinking.
Focuses on 'All-or-Nothing' thinking and 'Mental Filtering'. Students learn to identify binary thinking patterns and practice finding the 'gray area' between extremes.
The first week of morning mental exercises focusing on foundational critical thinking skills across various domains.
A comprehensive conflict resolution lesson for middle and high school students using the STOP-THINK-ACT method. The lesson focuses on de-escalation, managing social media boundaries, and improving interpersonal communication through interactive scenarios.
A 30-35 minute therapy group session for middle schoolers focused on mastering the STAR (Stop-Think-Act-Review) method for conflict resolution. Students will learn to pause, evaluate options, and reflect on their choices through interactive slides and a structured graphic organizer.
A specialized conflict resolution and perspective-taking session designed for a small group of middle school girls. Focuses on relational aggression, empathy, and practical communication tools.