Written and verbal communication standards for the workplace, including email etiquette, presentation delivery, and professional phone conduct. Develops collaborative skills for teamwork, constructive feedback, and efficient time management.
This lesson focuses on self-advocacy in the service industry, specifically regarding tipping policies and procedures. Students will learn how to identify different tipping systems and practice asking for clarification when they have questions about their earnings.
A functional skills lesson focused on navigating a restaurant experience on a budget, covering menu reading, budget planning, social etiquette, and group check splitting.
A comprehensive training session focusing on the professional relationship between employees and supervisors. Students will learn about supervisor roles, boundaries, communication strategies, and conflict resolution through interactive case studies.
A lesson focused on mastering time management through hands-on 'trials' that teach punctuality, task estimation, scheduling, and focus techniques.
This lesson empowers students to identify unfair treatment and provides a step-by-step framework for self-advocacy, including 'I' statements and formal complaint procedures.
This lesson introduces students to the core concepts of Agile and Scrum through the lens of team dynamics. Students will explore roles, ceremonies, and the critical importance of communication in high-performing teams.
A lesson focused on developing practical problem-solving skills for the workplace, including a reference guide for decision-making and scenario-based practice.
A lesson focused on helping students identify potential risks in workplace settings and understand the short- and long-term consequences of their professional decisions.
A fast-paced, 25-minute experiential session where students explore careers in out-of-school-time (OST) and health advocacy. In collaboration with an anti-vaping professional, students learn how to use play and game design to promote healthy choices and lead community-wide change.
A comprehensive 90-minute training session designed for college students in creative fields (specifically animation) to identify their skills, explore career paths, and build a professional resume.
A specialized training module on active listening within a customer service context, focusing on de-escalation, identifying customer needs, and building rapport through verbal and non-verbal cues.
A comprehensive lesson on essential workplace expectations, including soft skills, professional communication, and behavioral standards. Students explore real-world scenarios to prepare for successful employment.
A comprehensive lesson for adults with disabilities on navigating conflicts in workplace, residential, community, and social settings using structured communication tools.
An interactive board game experience covering essential life skills including financial literacy, time management, communication, and career readiness.
Foundational materials for the Life Skills Launchpad, including binder covers, dividers, and sequence-wide tracking systems.
Practicing the core skills of independent living, including home maintenance, personal advocacy, and daily scheduling.
Preparing for the workforce with mock interviews, professional communication practice, and on-the-job simulations.
Developing social-emotional awareness through event planning, role-play conversations, and meaningful peer interactions.
Mastering money identification, budgeting, and the mechanics of shopping through a pantry store simulation and real-world problem-solving.
A comprehensive workshop focusing on essential adulting skills through immersive role-play, task simulations, and practical financial planning. This lesson covers Independent Living, Employment Readiness, Self-Advocacy, and Financial Literacy.
A lesson designed to help learners identify and navigate modern peer pressure across workplace, social, digital, and home environments using practical refusal strategies.
A comprehensive training module designed to help employees understand and practice professional boundaries, communication, and collaboration. Includes interactive scenarios and practical strategies for a respectful workplace.
A comprehensive 90-minute training session for adults with IDD focusing on essential work habits: punctuality, feedback, communication, and professionalism.
A lesson focused on functional communication skills for conducting informational interviews with creative professionals, specifically animators and tattoo artists. Students learn to draft open-ended questions and structure a professional conversation.
Students engage in mock interview simulations and learn post-interview etiquette and scholarship management.
Students prepare for scholarship interviews using the STAR method to answer behavioral questions effectively.
Students audit their digital footprint and curate supplemental materials to reinforce their application's narrative.
Students learn the etiquette and strategy for requesting letters of recommendation, creating 'brag sheets' to guide their recommenders.
Students differentiate between a standard employment resume and an academic CV, building a document that highlights academic achievements, research, and leadership.
Students explore tools that offer live transcription of meetings. They learn to monitor these live feeds for accuracy, highlight key action items, and edit the transcript into minutes immediately after the meeting.
Students discuss and role-play the social aspects of using voice technology in open offices or libraries. They learn strategies for 'stenomask' usage, low-volume dictation, and explaining their accommodation to colleagues.
An inquiry-based lesson on where voice data goes. Students review terms of service for common dictation tools to understand data privacy, HIPAA compliance implications, and when *not* to use dictation.
Focusing on mobile devices and tablets, students learn to use dictation for productivity while away from a desk. They explore the limitations of mobile interfaces and strategies for syncing work back to desktop platforms.
Students practice dictating emails and memos, focusing on brevity, clarity, and standard business formatting in a rapid-response simulation.
A culminating workshop where students apply the full FAST skill set to rewrite past scripts and resolve real-world interpersonal conflicts.
Combines the 'S' and 'T' components of FAST to help students clarify their core values and practice assertive truthfulness.
Investigates the psychological roots of over-apologizing and provides practical strategies for reducing unnecessary apologies to preserve authority and integrity.
Focuses on the 'F' in FAST, teaching students to balance fairness to themselves with fairness to others using cognitive reframing techniques.
Students are introduced to the three pillars of interpersonal effectiveness and the FAST acronym as a tool for self-respect. They will perform a self-assessment of their current communication patterns.
A technical walkthrough of major application portals and the operational steps for credential submission and verification.
Students practice conducting a 'holistic audit' of a mock application, checking for consistency and synergy between all documents.
Covers the legal and ethical aspects of FERPA waivers and the confidentiality of recommendations in the admissions process.
Participants learn to create supporting documents that help recommenders write detailed, anecdotal letters through effective brag sheets.
Students analyze the function of the recommendation letter as a corroborating document, focusing on relationship depth over titles.
Students finalize their comprehensive PLEASE Portfolio, which includes their crisis plans, daily routines, and medical advocacy cards. They reflect on how this foundation reduces emotional vulnerability.
Students work in consultancy groups to review each other's PLEASE plans. They offer feedback on feasibility and loopholes, practicing how to support peers in healthy behaviors.
Students interpret hypothetical or personal tracking data to see the lag time between behavior change and mood improvement. They learn to manage expectations regarding how quickly the PLEASE skills work.
Students learn the DBT skill of 'Coping Ahead' to maintain their PLEASE foundation during future high-stress events. They practice adapting their resilience protocols to 'Disaster Scenarios'—unexpected life events that threaten their stability.
Students conduct a deep-dive inventory of their current PLEASE habits and identify a 'Keystone Habit'—the central pillar that supports their overall emotional stability. Using the Jenga analogy, students explore how physical health directly impacts emotional resilience.
Concludes with the technical skills needed to draft a defensible investigation report and recommend appropriate remediation.
Teaches students how to weigh conflicting testimony and apply the preponderance of evidence standard to make formal findings of fact.
Develops skills for interviewing the accused and witnesses, focusing on non-leading questions and managing high-conflict interactions.
Covers strategic planning for an investigation, identifying witnesses, and managing digital and physical evidence.
Focuses on the immediate response to a complaint, including conducting the intake interview and determining if interim measures like administrative leave are necessary.
Students perform usability testing on their checklists, observing peers' performance and iterating based on results.
Students draft their own professional-grade visual checklists, focusing on layout, flow, and sequential logic.
Students learn task analysis by breaking complex tasks into discrete steps and matching them with universal icons.
Students critique real-world visual instructions to identify design elements like color coding and iconography that aid understanding.
Students explore the limits of working memory through a simulation and case studies, learning the concept of cognitive offloading via checklists.
A culminating simulation where students rotate through work stations, completing complex orders using single-step prompts and quality control standards.
Students engage in repetitive manual tasks to find a productive rhythm, learning to prioritize accuracy over speed through regulated pacing.
Students practice high-stakes communication and verification techniques used in aviation and medicine to ensure 100% accuracy in safety-critical tasks.
Students learn to interpret and create Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), practicing the 'blind build' method to master one-step-at-a-time execution.
Students examine how cognitive overload and multitasking lead to workplace errors, using engineering failures as case studies to highlight the necessity of linear focus.
Students assume roles of mediators and disputants in a complex, multi-party dispute scenario (e.g., a land use dispute or school policy change). Mediators must facilitate the process, uncover interests, help generate options, and finalize a written agreement. The lesson focuses on synthesizing all previous frameworks into a cohesive professional performance.
Resolving the conflict is only half the battle; writing a durable agreement is the rest. Students learn the components of a SMART agreement (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound) in a conflict context. They review failed contracts or treaties to identify loopholes and ambiguity, then practice drafting ironclad resolution clauses.
Students practice brainstorming techniques designed to break deadlocks. They learn about BATNA (Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement) and WATNA (Worst Alternative) to assess leverage. The class engages in exercises to expand the 'pie' rather than just dividing it, finding creative solutions that satisfy multiple interests.
This lesson outlines the formal stages of mediation: Introduction, Storytelling, Agenda Setting, Negotiation, and Agreement. Students learn the procedural responsibilities of a mediator to maintain safety and order. They create visual flowcharts of the process to understand how to guide disputants from chaos to order.
Students learn to distinguish between surface-level positions and underlying interests using the Harvard Negotiation Project model. The lesson introduces Interest-Based Negotiation (IBN) through the classic 'Orange Quarrel' scenario and case study analysis.
Students engage in a complex role-play scenario where they must negotiate a support plan with a skeptical 'professor' or 'manager.' Peers observe and provide feedback on tone, clarity, and persistence.
Focusing on real-time interactions, this lesson teaches verbal scripts for setting boundaries in group projects or meetings. Students practice 'I' statements and the DEAR MAN technique from DBT to assert needs effectively.
Students analyze successful and unsuccessful email requests for extensions, mental health days, or additional tutoring. They practice writing concise, professional emails that state needs clearly without over-apologizing.
This lesson covers the technical aspects of requesting support, including understanding syllabus policies, disability services, and workplace accommodation laws (ADA). Students learn the difference between a preference and a protected right.
Students participate in a Socratic seminar exploring the cultural narratives surrounding 'grit' and 'resilience' versus help-seeking. They critique the 'ideal worker' norm and discuss the long-term professional costs of burnout.
The culmination of the unit where students deliver their full marketing pitch to a 'Shark Tank' style panel. Includes peer evaluation and professional feedback loops.
Students master the physical aspects of public speaking, including posture, eye contact, and vocal variety. They will practice 'Power Posing' and techniques to manage presentation anxiety.
This lesson covers the 'Rule of Three' and visual design principles. Students learn that slides should support, not repeat, their spoken words, focusing on minimalism and impact.
Focusing on the emotional core of marketing, students learn to wrap their data and products in compelling stories. They will explore brand archetypes and the hero's journey as applied to customer success.
Students learn the fundamentals of persuasion through the lens of the 'Elevator Pitch'. They will explore how to hook an audience in under 60 seconds using value propositions and clear calls to action.
A comprehensive guide to understanding, finding, and securing apprenticeships in trades, business, and high-growth industries. This lesson covers the definition, benefits, and practical steps to starting a career through an apprenticeship.
A comprehensive guide to mastering entry-level and academic interviews through the STAR method, practical scenarios, and self-reflection. Students will build a portfolio of stories to demonstrate their skills to future employers and admissions officers.
A comprehensive guide to essential adulting skills covering financial literacy, career development, health navigation, and civic responsibilities.
A preparatory lesson focused on mastering the foundational skills of workplace ethics, professional communication, and financial literacy before beginning the full-scale simulation.
A project-based simulation where students create a long-term career roadmap and manage a multi-stage life logbook, practicing workplace ethics and professional communication in real-world scenarios.
A comprehensive set of tools designed to help a student teacher or childcare assistant understand and maintain professional physical boundaries with young children. This lesson includes an objective evaluation rubric, a visual reference guide for safe interactions, and a self-reflection tool.
A comprehensive lesson for adult learners in vocational programs focusing on the social-emotional skills required to receive constructive feedback and navigate workplace hierarchies through role-play and reflection.
A comprehensive training module on the professional standards for calling out of work, covering etiquette, timing, and communication methods.
This lesson covers professional phone etiquette specifically for communicating with potential employers, focusing on preparation, tone, and specific calling scenarios.
A practical lesson focused on the logistics of personal care, teaching students how to identify necessary actions for hygiene and grooming, and the specific steps to schedule medical appointments.
A practical life skills lesson focused on managing personal care needs, scheduling medical appointments, and completing essential personal information forms. Designed for Level 2 learners with simplified text and visual supports.
A comprehensive 90-minute professional development lesson on workplace attendance and punctuality, designed for adult learners with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Focuses on business impact, disciplinary stages, and proactive communication.
A comprehensive guide to resume writing for students and entry-level professionals, covering different resume formats, skill identification, and document templates.
A practical guide to essential adulting skills, covering apartment hunting, basic meal planning on a budget, and navigating the 'real world' responsibilities of independent life.
A comprehensive lesson on time management and effective study habits, focusing on prioritization, scheduling, and active study techniques to prepare students for post-secondary success.
A comprehensive 4-hour coaching session designed for adult learners with intellectual disabilities and high anxiety. It covers emotional resilience during the job search, professional presentation, and practical interview skills for phone, virtual, and in-person settings.
This lesson teaches students effective verbal and non-verbal communication strategies for the workplace, including active listening, professional greetings, and asking for clarification.
This lesson helps students understand and identify appropriate workplace attire across different industries, from uniforms to business casual.
This lesson focuses on the critical first steps of starting a new job, including morning routines, professional attire, and navigating initial workplace social interactions.
A final assessment module to evaluate student understanding of career readiness concepts and application proficiency.
A deep dive into the mechanics of job applications, cover letter construction, and managing professional references.
An introductory unit focusing on career terminology, professional mindset, and identifying personal strengths for the workforce.
A comprehensive 90-minute one-on-one training session designed to build confidence in job searching, understanding requirements, and practicing assertive communication. This lesson bridges the gap for a learner transitioning to working with a job coach by focusing on practical digital skills and interpersonal confidence.
A comprehensive one-on-one lesson designed to help adults with disabilities prepare for job interviews, covering everything from professional attire to managing nerves and practicing common questions.
A comprehensive lesson on the importance of quality control and checking one's work across various entry-level employment sectors including janitorial, retail, office, and food service.
A lesson on drafting and sending professional emails to request letters of recommendation for college, internships, or scholarships. Students learn proper email etiquette, structure, and follow-up procedures.
A lesson on interpreting body language and social cues across various professional and community settings. Students will learn to decode non-verbal communication and practice responding appropriately through role-play.
An introductory overview of executive functioning skills specifically focused on time management and organization strategies for students.
A focused lesson on personal accountability and strategic planning, providing the tools needed to transition from a student mindset to a professional one while working in entry-level roles.
A comprehensive exploration of modern apprenticeship paths in technology, focusing on comparing traditional education to work-based learning and developing essential workplace soft skills.
This lesson provides the foundational tools for the Focus Flight system: quick-capture sticky notes, a visual mindset poster, and structured reflection prompts to support a two-semester research thesis.
