Free foreverSelf-awarenessLiteracy
Behind the Filter
It's almost midnight and Imani posts a selfie she loves, then a feed full of "perfect" posts makes her want to delete it. Help her read what's really behind the filter.
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The McCray Learning Lab
Stay Strong
For tweens & teens, ages 10–16
Practice staying strong before the hard moment arrives.
Five interactive comics built for the real pressures of being 10 to 16: what social media does to how you see yourself, what to say to yourself after a setback, how to tell what's real online, a whole resilience toolkit guided by elder mentor Auntie Nia, and what to do when you're the only one who looks like you in the room.
Free foreverSelf-management
Level Up Your Mind Game
Kai is the new kid with three weeks until basketball tryouts and a loud inner Doubt. Guided by Bloom, he trains the mind game until YET wins.
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Free foreverMedia literacy
Real or Fake? Think Before You Share
A quick, practical toolkit for slowing down before you share: how to spot what's designed to fool you, and how to check before you pass it on.
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Free foreverResilience
Stay Strong: A Resilience Toolkit
An affirming, interactive resilience toolkit for Black tweens and teens, guided by elder mentor Auntie Nia through nine "Things," plus a bonus toolkit and a finale.
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Free foreverIdentity & belonging
The Room You Earned
Nadia, 14, walks into Honors English on the first day, proud she earned it and the only Black student in the room. When a careless comment tries to make her feel small, Auntie Nia teaches her a one-breath move: SEEN, STEADY, SPEAK.
Open comic →For school counselors & advisory teachers
Beyond the five open comics above, eleven additional practice stories are reserved for practitioners and shared directly: self-advocacy in a support meeting, finding your own advocate voice, noticing the friend who goes quiet, and a full sequence on navigating school discipline moments with steadiness. Ask Elliott for the practitioner set.
Every Stay Strong comic ships with a printable teacher & caregiver guide, ready to drop into an advisory block or a counseling session. The same private-by-design rules apply as the rest of the Lab: no accounts, no tracking, and any recorded practice stays on the student's own device.
This is a practice tool, not therapy or counseling. It's built to rehearse a skill before the moment it's needed, the same way a fire drill rehearses an exit.