Ninja Pause Slides

An engaging 6-slide deck defining meekness as 'power under control' (the Ninja Pause). Tailored for middle schoolers, it uses modern slate and emerald visuals to explain how to channel strength into restraint during peer conflict and peer pressure.

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Respect Restoration Series

A comprehensive restorative respect and empathy sequence spanning Grades 5 to 8, providing age-appropriate independent reflection packets and companion advisory slides for each grade level.

Marcia Cullinane

Tech Field Trips

A lesson focusing on identifying, analyzing, and presenting versatile digital tools and learning supports. Students learn how to storyboard a video presentation mapping their technological toolkit to future career goals.

Lenny

Digital Expedition Storyboard

An exemplar video storyboard document showing how to integrate 5 favorite websites and learning supports into an online tech field trip presentation, framed around a general productivity and digital collaboration career.

Lenny

Honor and Influence

A transformative leadership program designed for 8th-grade boys, focusing on academic buy-in, the heavy historical significance of cultural symbols, and elevating their public influence from low-level edge-lord behavior to respected legacy leadership. Includes school lessons, weekend homework packs, and a parent reflection guide.

Marcia Cullinane

Tech Safari

An interactive online field trip project where pre-service K-12 teachers curate, analyze, and present five essential educational technologies. This resource provides a detailed project guide, submission checklist, and evaluation rubric to ensure professional standards and seamless peer collaboration.

Lenny

Tech Safari Rubric and Checklist

A vintage field guide-themed project guide, deadline tracker, submission checklist, and complete analytical rubric for the Tech Safari online field trip assignment. Tailored specifically for pre-service K-12 teachers to evaluate their curation, career planning, and video presentation skills.

Lenny

My Own Beat

A transition curriculum for an 8th-grade student moving to high school, using music and guitar metaphors to cultivate individuality, self-confidence, independent decision-making, and positive peer connection. This 2-lesson unit empowers him to choose his own path, join clubs aligned with his interests, and build supportive friendships.

Marcia Cullinane

Final Flight Transitions

A comprehensive, week-long morning meeting series for the final week of school. Helps students celebrate growth, outline summer plans, address fifth-grade transitions, set future goals, and build class community before departure.

Andrew Mulvaney

Final Flight Guide

A 4-page teacher-facing facilitation plan and printable prompt cards. Outlines day-by-day lesson scripts, pacing, community-building strategies, and printable pocket-sized cards for facilitating the morning circle.

Andrew Mulvaney

Future Flyer Journal

A 5-page student-facing morning meeting reflection booklet styled as an aviation flight log. Includes space for daily morning responses, activity summaries, transition goal-setting, and classmate autographs.

Andrew Mulvaney

Final Flight Slides

A 5-day daily morning meeting presentation featuring a hot air balloon aviation theme. Each day includes a daily morning question, a cooperative transition activity, and an interactive group discussion prompt to prepare students for fifth grade.

Andrew Mulvaney

Pause Pivot Think Sheet

A restorative 2-page reflection packet designed for a student who created a dangerous object from a push pin and paper. Formatted with large, highly legible fonts and spacious, multi-line writing boxes, it guides the student through impulse control coaching, understanding physical safety risks, and co-creating a restore plan with their Assistant Principal.

Ninja Pause Slides