A worksheet to help students set a personal goal and outline steps to achieve it, emphasizing the application of grit and resilience.
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.
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.
An optimized 12-page school handbook that elevates body font sizes to a highly legible 12px-14px standard and replaces the placeholder cover mascot with the official West Lee Pride lion head mask logo image. It also updates the Principal's prefix to Mrs. Petrarca, adds Nurse: Mrs. Parker, and positions the Spanish translation notice centered at the bottom of the page.
A comprehensive restorative leadership and peer advocacy sequence designed for students transitioning to middle school. It guides students from understanding their social influence to actively protecting peers and spreading positive school culture.
Students apply their deep listening and empathy skills to design a school-wide inclusion campaign or classroom standard, designing collaborative action items.
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.
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.
Students engage in active empathy and narrative exchange, analyzing how personal experiences and cultural backgrounds shape our perspectives of shared environments.
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 4-day small-group social-emotional learning sequence for grades 3-5. Aligned with the CASEL Social Awareness framework, this unit teaches students to identify how expectations and social norms change across different school environments and how to adapt their behaviors successfully.
Students explore the concept of the cultural iceberg, distinguishing between visible elements of culture and deep, invisible values, to recognize the richness of identity.
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).
