• Designing Our Own Learning Team

    Evergreen High School and Dimmitt Middle School Students and Educators   The Designing Our Own Learning Team   This August Sound Discipline hosted our second annual “Designing Our Own Learning” (DOOL) intensive summer program. For two weeks, diverse students and teachers from Evergreen High School and Dimmitt Middle School joined together online with Sound Discipline […]

  • Belonging Through a Culture of Dignity

    “Inclusion is not an intellectual thing. It has to be visceral. Words like diversity, equity, inclusion have no meaning at all unless we make it personal, unless we connect these themes to our life story and operationalize them in the actions of our daily lives.” – Jonathan Joseph, Sound Discipline Board of Directors.   Sound […]

  • Holding on to Hope (For Teachers)

    This year has been rough. An undeniable understatement. Hope seems hard to reach, especially when our resilience has been tested these in these long challenging months since last spring. Yet hope is an antidote to despair. And while acknowledging the emotional toll of these times is crucial, equally crucial is our ability to hold onto […]

  • Harnessing Hope (For Parents)

    Hope is the belief in a positive future. It is an optimistic, exciting sense of what is possible. In this time of global health crisis, economic uncertainty, racial reckoning, and physical disconnection from other human beings, the day to day challenges of doing everything differently make it difficult to hold onto hope. Yet hope is […]

  • 4 Different ways to think about your futur retirement

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  • How is the pandemic affecting the way people date?

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  • Four Ideas for Stressed Parents

    We are parenting more hours a day than ever before.  In-person school, in-person play dates and visits with family and friends are things we hope to resume in the near future, but they aren’t providing much relief for parents at the moment. Have you noticed any of these issues coming up for your kids? stressing […]

  • Sound Discipline Data Teams: Addressing Disproportionality in Discipline

    Sound Discipline school data teams are representatives from the school community who share leadership and meet regularly to review disciplinary referral data with a trauma informed, solution focused lens. As day-to-day situations come up, the data helps place those incidents in a broader context, revealing patterns and pointing to deeper systemic issues — processes, policies, […]

  • Tips for Teaching Online

  • The parent’s balancing act: using the word ‘No’

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