Community Partnerships

  • Learning Together with Team Read

    Learning Together with Team Read

    Supporting Teen Reading Coaches and younger readers through relationship-centered practice We are proud to have launched a year-long partnership with Team Read, an organization that empowers teens as literacy tutors for elementary students. Our two organizations are grounded in shared values, and a commitment to equity, literacy, and youth leadership. Team Read invited BELONG Partners…

  • Conference Presentations

    Conference Presentations

    Our facilitators share information on brain science, trauma-responsive, culturally relevant, and restorative practices, along with social-emotional learning (SEL) strategies for educators and all those who work with youth. We’d love to meet you! If you have any questions, reach out to us – hello@belongpartners.org. Find additional resources for our conference attendees here. Recent Presentations Thursday…

  • Inspiring the Advancement of Trauma-Informed, Equity-Centered Practices Across Auburn Schools: A Growing Partnership

    Our partnership with the Auburn School District began in 2016 and continues to demonstrate how meaningful progress can ripple across an entire district. It started with Dick Scobee Elementary, which joined us as a Whole School partner. From there, the momentum grew—through professional development workshops and personalized coaching, we supported educators at multiple schools as…

  • 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. Schottle and her school staff participated in the BELONG Partners workshop Rooted Relationships: Growing Equitable Classroom Communities. After taking that workshop, Schottle was interested in other components of the BELONG Partners approach. She wanted to amplify authentic family partnership and…

  • 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…