Ninja Pause Teacher Guide

A comprehensive 2-page teacher's guide and lesson plan for 'The Ninja Pause'. Features a step-by-step 45-60 min pacing guide, pedagogical instructions, classroom discussion prompts, and a complete worksheet answer key/rubric.

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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 Teacher Guide