Career Kickstart Slides

A comprehensive slide deck for group discussion covering professional communication, social cues, job application tips, interview etiquette, and workplace safety protocols. Designed to spark engagement and critical thinking about professional behavior.

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Iceberg Investigators Presentation Slides

Weaving Worlds

A 3-lesson unit on culture, identity, empathy, and building an inclusive school community. Students explore the cultural iceberg, share personal perspective narratives, and collaborate on actionable school-wide inclusion plans.

Cynthia Rios

Social Media Showdown

A high-energy, collaborative staff training session built around a competitive trivia game. Staff work in teams to analyze realistic scenarios and master MetroWest YMCA's Social Networking Policy (Appendix IV, Updated 6/2024), emphasizing child safety, professional boundaries, and brand protection.

Jen Hyman

Showdown Team Scorecard

A clean, print-ready single-page team scorecard for 20-30 staff members divided into squads. It features space for team details, selection indicators, and dedicated white writing blocks for teams to cite policy rules from Appendix IV.

Jen Hyman

Volume and Values

A transition curriculum linking heavy metal passion with character, true rebellion, and leadership. Features an in-school coaching workshop and a parallel at-home action journal for tonight.

Marcia Cullinane

Heart to Heart

A high-quality co-completion toolkit for parents and 11-year-old pre-teens. Focuses on active listening, emotional attunement, conflict de-escalation, and establishing daily connection rituals.

Theresa Casarella

Showdown Slide Deck

An engaging, high-contrast 14-slide presentation used to project the interactive trivia game during the training. It details real-world scenarios, game rules, and reveals answer explanations citing official rules from the MetroWest YMCA Social Networking Policy.

Jen Hyman

Career Launchpad Curriculum

A comprehensive career exploration framework and counselor planning toolkit for grades K-12. This curriculum maps academic subjects to real-world career paths (college, trade school, and workforce) and provides counselors with implementation templates, annual pacing calendars, and a school-wide Career Day blueprint.

Hope Campbell

Inclusion Architects

Students apply their deep listening and empathy skills to design a school-wide inclusion campaign or classroom standard, designing collaborative action items.

Cynthia Rios

Showdown Facilitator Guide

A comprehensive, two-page print-ready facilitator guide for leading the Social Media Showdown staff training. It contains game instructions, pacing guides, team division tips, and detailed policy explanations for each round based on the MetroWest YMCA Social Networking Policy (Appendix IV, Updated 6/2024).

Jen Hyman

Cooperative Minds

A high school counseling sequence focused on building perspective-taking, cognitive flexibility, and active collaboration strategies for Grade 12 Seniors navigating professional capstone projects, advanced career-technical labs, and workplace transitions.

rruiz

Perspective Passages

Students engage in active empathy and narrative exchange, analyzing how personal experiences and cultural backgrounds shape our perspectives of shared environments.

Cynthia Rios

Heartstrings Connection Guide

A beautifully crafted 3-page companion workbook for moms and their 11-year-old daughters titled 'Heartstrings Connection Guide'. This material focuses on emotional attunement, interpreting unspoken body signals, deep emotional validation, and collaborative conflict repair tools. It features blank writing areas and elegant styling.

Career Kickstart Slides