Community Partnerships

  • Nooksack Elementary Kindergartners Skillfully Shine During Their Problem-Solving Class Meetings

    Nooksack Elementary Kindergartners Skillfully Shine During Their Problem-Solving Class Meetings

    Phi Bean is a kindergarten teacher at Nooksack Elementary School in Everson, WA, part of the Nooksack Valley School District. She has been teaching kindergarten there for seven years and knows firsthand the importance of social-emotional learning for kids this age. We asked Ms. Bean to share the impact of working with BELONG Partners in…

  • TRANSFORM BIPOC Youth Circles at Dimmitt Middle School As an organization that strives to uplift racial equity in all that we do, we were thrilled this year to be able to bring a program called TRANSFORM (Trauma and Racism Addressed by Navigating Systemic Forms of Oppression using Resistance Methods) to our community. TRANSFORM is a…

  • Strengthening Family and School Partnership at Sunnycrest Elementary

    Strengthening Family and School Partnership at Sunnycrest Elementary

    Kelley Schottle is the Principal at Sunnycrest Elementary in the Federal Way, WA, School District. In the summer of 2023, Schottle participated, along with half of her school staff, in the BELONG Partners workshop Rooted Relationships: Growing Equitable Classroom Communities workshop. After taking that workshop, Schottle was interested in other components of the BELONG Partners…

  • Growing Through the Changes

    Just like in nature, community groups, school systems, and school communities grow in response to the environments around them. Sometimes schools are able to forecast changing needs and intentionally create new systems, and sometimes the environment forces change. School systems and communities have grown and changed based on new research, the experience of educators, and…

  • Auburn School District’s All-Staff Wellness Day Lays Foundation for a Culture of Care

    “SEL is about preparing students and staff for quality instruction, quality learning, and quality interaction, because that’s where we are spending all of our time.” – Assistant Superintendent Rhonda Larson, Family Engagement & Student Success Dept Thursday, September 1, we were thrilled to spend the ENTIRE day with Auburn School District Staff during their first…

  • The Mindful Mentors Project in Tukwila School District

    The Mindful Mentors Project, in the Tukwila School District, brings together teens and third graders to connect as mentors and mentees, who engage together in learning about social emotional learning, mindfulness, and movement. Partnering with the students on this project are Thrive Centered (formerly Thrive Yoga), an organization that centers embodiment and provides somatic-based SEL…

  • We Belong & Matter: Community Conversations

            Sign up for our newsletter to be notified of upcoming community conversations. Previous Events Disrupting the School-to-Prison Pipeline: A Free, Online Community Conversation In partnership with Sound Discipline, CHOOSE180, The Freedom Project WA, and the documentary film Since I Been Down. Tuesday, March 15, 12 – 2:00pm. Registration for this event…

  • Terminal Park Elementary

    We Welcome a New Whole School!   Sound Discipline is pleased to announce a new Whole School partnership with Auburn School District’s Terminal Park Elementary.   Terminal Park Elementary in the Auburn School District will be a Sound Discipline Whole School for the 2021-22 school year. Professional development for the entire staff will be the initial…