Focus Lab Curriculum

A visual and interactive self-advocacy curriculum designed specifically for students with intellectual disabilities and diverse communication styles. This foundational series empowers students to express feelings, request assistance, and make independent choices through highly structured group games, partner interactions, and individual visual communication books.

A 4-week intensive math intervention program set in a space exploration universe, designed for multi-grade students with disabilities in Grades 5–8. It covers additive thinking, place value, and decimal regrouping, anchored in Grades 4–6 standards with a Grade 5 core middle ground.

A 3-day small group social-emotional learning sequence focused on developing empathy for grades 3-5. Aligning with the CASEL framework, students practice recognizing feelings, listening actively, and responding to peers with compassionate words and actions.

A 4-week Extended School Year (ESY) Math curriculum for Students with Disabilities (SWD) in grades 1-4. Using an engaging 'Junior Wildlife Detectives' theme, students track animals, measure habitats, and categorize species while mastering addition, subtraction, place value, and multiplication foundations aligned with NJ Student Learning Standards (NJSLS) for grades 1-3.

A comprehensive 4-week ELA curriculum designed for Special Education Extended School Year (ESY) programs, serving grades 1-4 with differentiated activities, daily visual slides, and hands-on, multi-sensory support.

A 4-day small group conflict resolution unit for grades 3-5, aligned with CASEL competencies. Students learn to identify conflicts and apply four specific healthy problem-solving strategies: find a compromise, report to an adult, ignore/walk away, and calmly tell to stop.

The TLC Summer Acceleration Program 2026 is an intensive, high-engagement summer curriculum designed to accelerate student learning and cultivate a resilient growth mindset through interactive routines.

A two-lesson counseling sequence designed for a small group (3rd and 4th graders) focusing on self-advocacy strategies. The sequence guides students from pre-advocacy de-escalation (breathing and grounding) to active self-expression (I-statements and situational script practice).

A 4-week 1:1 wellbeing sequence for Year 2-5 students focused on Growth Mindset and Resilience. Includes weekly student journal worksheets and matching teacher facilitation cards for targeted 20-30 minute check-ins.

A comprehensive back-to-school character education unit centered around the schoolwide EVCS CARES values: Cooperation, Assertion, Responsibility, Empathy, and Self-Control. Each value is taught through active modeling, guided practice, and reflection, culminating in a schoolwide community project.

A structured literacy unit aligned with Wilson Step 6.2, focusing on multi-syllabic words with suffixes. Students engage with high-interest passages about popular icons while mastering syllable division and spelling patterns.

A 4-day small-group social-emotional learning unit for grades 3-5 focused on situational emotional regulation. Students learn to analyze their internal emotional state and external environmental constraints to select and apply the most effective, socially responsible coping skill.