Vocational Skills and Job Applications

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.

An end-of-summer-school reward program celebrating students' growth, teamwork, academic, and social achievement under a vibrant cosmic space academy theme.

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.

Students explore the critical role of time management in the workplace, learn how to estimate task durations, examine real-world punctuality consequences, and build essential skills for professional success.

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 simple, kid-friendly daily emotional regulation check-in system based on the Zones of Regulation model. Features a clean student desk mat, a coping strategy menu, a teacher instruction guide, and tracking logs.

A comprehensive visual support bundle designed for student emotional self-regulation, featuring an interactive board, PECS-style communication cards, a data tracker, and a step-by-step implementation guide.

An introductory get-to-know-you lesson utilizing visual sentence starters and structured options to support students of all communication styles in sharing their preferences, feelings, and strengths.

A comprehensive preparation resource set for Field Day, designed for upper elementary and sensory-sensitive students. It includes a structured, coping-strategy-focused social story booklet and a beautifully organized, visual rotation schedule poster to support seamless transitions.

A highly visual, scaffolded country research project bundle modified specifically for IEP students. Includes teacher instructions, simplified visual rubrics, tiered student worksheets, hands-on matching activities, and a friendly presentation template.

A comprehensive toolkit of visual ice breakers designed for high school life skills classrooms, featuring high-contrast visual choice boards, point-to-select options, structured sentence frames, and clear facilitator guidance to support diverse communication needs.

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.

An end-of-summer-school reward program celebrating students' growth, teamwork, academic, and social achievement under a vibrant wildlife explorer theme.

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.

A self-regulation lesson based on Universal Design for Learning (UDL). Students explore how sensory stimuli and summer environments affect their energy levels and design a personalized 'sensory menu' card filled with tailored coping strategies to maintain emotional balance during unstructured summer months.

An adapted reading lesson centered around a simplified, highly visual story about car racing. Ideal for 6th-grade special education students needing mid-elementary comprehension supports and interactive matching tasks.

A collection of highly scaffolded daily math worksheets and guides designed for 7th-grade students with Specific Learning Disabilities (SLD) working at a foundational 3rd-grade level. Each day provides targeted skill practice, clear visual checklists, step-by-step scaffolds, and sensory-friendly layout.

A structured program to help high school students with special needs verbally express opinions and support them with logical reasons. Includes engaging debate topics, connection word scaffolds, and an integrated teacher data tracker.

A comprehensive small-group counseling lesson designed to help high school special needs students use context clues to decode social intent in workplace, community, and safety situations.

A structured morphological analysis lesson designed for high school students with special needs. Students decode word meanings using roots, prefixes, suffixes, and inflectional endings.

A comprehensive suite of materials designed to support students with ADHD in emotional regulation, focus, self-advocacy, and goal setting. Includes a SMART IEP Goal Bank & Accommodations Guide, a printable Student Progress Tracker, and a 3-page guided Executive Functioning Workbook.

A lesson focused on supporting students with disabilities as they transition into the workplace, utilizing resources from the Ontario Transition Resource Guide.

An introductory lesson designed for a small 6th-grade classroom of students with ASD to de-stigmatize and explain the purpose of social stories (referred to as Story Helpers), demonstrating that helpers are used by everyone to succeed.

A biology lesson on modeling the carbon cycle, redesigned from a Universal Design for Learning (UDL) lens to support students with learning disabilities using multi-sensory strategies, color-coded visual organizers, and scaffolded vocabulary cards.

A highly structured science and creative writing lesson where students design a fictional natural disaster. Designed with clear visual schedules, concrete prompts, and step-by-step guidelines specifically optimized for neurodiverse learners, including those with ASD.

A structured language lesson bundle for 10th-grade special education students focusing on functional workplace vocabulary. Students will learn and practice identifying synonyms, antonyms, related words, and hierarchical relationships (e.g., job roles and work settings) to build independence.