Discussion Guide Taking Control

Print-ready small group scenario debate cards. Features 6 detailed scenarios designed to guide middle schoolers through peer pressure, boundary calibration, and red/yellow flag diagnostics.

A 2-page print-ready interactive student worksheet packet for self-assessment, boundary mapping, and scripting refusal skills. Uses the cohesive digital/tech theme.

An engaging, modern slide presentation for middle schoolers to introduce relationship green, yellow, and red flags, boundaries, and safety strategies. Uses a tech/signal theme.

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.

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.

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).

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.

A 4-slide presentation for Lesson 3, explaining the campaign design project guidelines, campaign pathways, and presentation instructions.

A quick daily exit ticket assessment for Lesson 3, checking students' understanding of the campaign design and reflecting on their key takeaways from the unit.

An interactive student campaign design worksheet for Lesson 3, guiding student teams to outline a campaign name, target audience, core inclusion goal, actionable steps, and a visual logo sketch.

A comprehensive teacher guide for Lesson 3, outlining pacing, project criteria, student campaign options, and instructions for group presentations.

A 4-slide presentation for Lesson 2, outlining the dual hallway perspective scenario and teaching active listening rules for the student narrative swap.

A quick daily exit ticket assessment for Lesson 2, checking students' understanding of perspective-taking and active listening.

An interactive student worksheet for Lesson 2, guiding students to write a short personal perspective narrative, swap with a classmate, and practice active listening questions.

A comprehensive teacher guide for Lesson 2, outlining session pacing, discussion questions, objectives, and active listening rules for the student narrative exchange.

A 4-slide presentation for Lesson 1, introducing the concept of the cultural iceberg and explaining the difference between surface and deep culture.

A quick daily exit ticket assessment for Lesson 1, checking students' understanding of the cultural iceberg and encouraging self-reflection.

An interactive student worksheet for Lesson 1, guiding students to analyze surface versus deep culture and map their own multi-layered identities on a cultural iceberg graphic.

A comprehensive teacher guide for Lesson 1, detailing lesson pacing, discussion prompts, student learning objectives, and materials needed to explore the cultural iceberg.

An updated high-impact, science-spy-themed presentation slide outlining the five core habits of success in 7th-grade science, incorporating the new strengthened success formula and a closing summary message.

A highly engaging 1-page student playbook for Lesson 3: Line in the Sand. Helps students audit friendships, draft personalized peer-pressure refusal scripts, and declare their non-negotiable boundaries.

An interactive 6-slide presentation to guide Lesson 3: Line in the Sand. Covers establishing peer boundaries, identifying toxic friendship traits, and practicing refusal scripts.

A comprehensive 2-page facilitator guide for Lesson 3: Line in the Sand. Covers establishing peer boundaries, identifying toxic friendship traits, and practicing refusal scripts.

A highly engaging 1-page student journal for Lesson 2: Digital Armor. Helps students audit screen time, contrast their digital mask with their true self, and lock in daily device boundaries.

An interactive 6-slide presentation to guide Lesson 2: Digital Armor. Covers daily screen averages, the digital mask vs true identity, group chat dynamics, and lock-in habits.

A comprehensive 2-page facilitator guide for Lesson 2: Digital Armor. Covers managing social media validation, group chat dynamics, digital footprint awareness, and phone boundary-setting.

A highly engaging, themed 1-page personal reflection log for students to declare their core values, inventory personal strengths, and draft their personal commitment statement.

An interactive 6-slide presentation to guide the first group session, featuring bold discussion prompts, deconstructing social expectations, and setting up the core values activity.

A comprehensive 2-page facilitator guide for Lesson 1: Own Your Code. Includes group guidelines, pacing, step-by-step instructions, discussion prompts, and debrief questions.

A 5-slide presentation matching the Ripple Effect lesson. It introduces students to the physics of school culture, walks through Maya's hallway story, and details the 5 leadership tracker actions.

A 2-page print-ready student-centered Read & Respond workbook detailing the physics of the ripple effect in school culture, featuring biographical vignettes of youth advocates and daily leadership tracking sheets.

A 5-slide presentation matching the Peer Shields lesson. It helps teachers guide a classroom debate on instigators vs. bystanders vs. shields, analyzing real-life lunchroom and digital chat situations.

A printable team response sheet for the Y Conduct Showdown game. Allows teams (Caring, Honesty, Respect, Responsibility) to record their members, track scores, draft scenario answers, and note down key takeaways.

A 2-page print-ready student-centered Read & Respond workbook. Features real-world middle school scenarios (gossip, lunch exclusion) where students analyze how to step in as active shields to protect their peers.

An interactive, competitive trivia slide deck designed to train 20-30 staff members and volunteers on the MetroWest YMCA Code of Conduct. Features scenario-based questions, team structures, and clear answer explanations.

A beautiful, warm, and reflective landscape-inspired keepsake award certificate and interactive student reflection document celebrating a student's personal growth and triumph over shyness in group counseling.

A 5-slide presentation designed for the initial mentoring or classroom session to introduce the concept of positive leadership, comparing instigators to captains, and practicing restorative responses to 6th-grade scenarios.

A 1-page teacher-facing mentoring guide outlining restorative meeting agendas, direct questioning strategies, and scripts to handle defensiveness for a student transitioning to middle school.

A 4-page interactive reflection booklet and home connection guide designed to help a student transition from negative influence to positive peer advocacy. Features restorative self-reflection, a 4-part middle school scenario guide, a personal blueprint and boundaries page, parent discussion prompts, and a positive leadership tracker.

An interactive, beautifully designed 3-page father-daughter co-completion workbook titled 'Bridge Builders Workbook'. It focuses on building active listening skills, daily connection rituals, and emotional de-escalation strategies. It includes structured prompts, reflective exercises, conflict tools, and a shared agreement, with blank writing boxes tailored for comfortable handwritten completion.

A high-octane, racing-themed student worksheet pack. Page 1 helps students identify personal rushing triggers (Yellow Flags) and design coping skills. Page 2 provides a desk-ready FIT Check checklist and a real-world persistence drill.

A comprehensive 2-page counselor guide for the Pit Stop Precision lesson. Includes structured facilitator scripts, step-by-step lesson pacing, and 4 high-octane printable roleplay cards to practice self-regulation and double-checking.

An interactive, racing-themed slide deck designed for 6th grade counseling. It teaches the 'Pit Stop Protocol' to help students identify rushing behaviors, recognize the need for double-checking, and master task persistence.

A 1-page at-home guitar practice and family reflection sheet for tonight. Features a physical playing checklist as a positive outlet, a prompt to share a favorite song, and a collaborative student-family commitment pact.

A 1-page printable activity featuring 4 role-play cards. Provides realistic social scenarios for standing up to peer pressure, resisting vandalism/hate speech, and practicing frontman leadership when transitioning to high school.

A 1-page Independent Action Plan and transition roadmap for the student. Helps him research high school music clubs, track prospective bandmates, set goals for his first 90 days, and establish a constructive routine.

A 5-slide interactive presentation designed for 1-on-1 coaching. Uses a heavy metal/rock theme to explore the true history of the subculture, address peer pressure (feedback vs. rift), stand up against hate, and map out a positive transition to high school.

A 3-page Guided Reflection Journal for 1-on-1 mentoring. Connects the student's passion for heavy metal and guitar with themes of identity, true rebellion (standing against hate and groupthink), and creating a positive personal soundtrack.

A 2-page student reference tool. Page 1 contains 4 styled 'Polaroid' snapshot cards describing facial/body clues and internal somatic signals. Page 2 provides 2 more snapshots and a quick self-guided matching activity.

A 2-page student worksheet. Page 1 features a physical 'Body Signals Map' graphic organizer to label physical feelings. Page 2 provides scenario coping match-ups and self-regulation reflections.