Designing Our Own Learning

  • DOOL – Designing Our Own Learning

    DOOL – Designing Our Own Learning

    “For a lot of the young people, it’s the first time they get to be in a space side by side with teachers—not about power over, but about sharing what they care about and what they want to see happen in their school.” Alan WongBELONG Partners Facilitator The BELONG Partners DOOL (Designing Our Own Learning)…

  • Youth Inspire Educators to Share Power and Create Equitable Learning Environments

    Youth Inspire Educators to Share Power and Create Equitable Learning Environments

    On October 8th a diverse crowd of educators filed into the Laser Dome at Seattle’s Pacific Science Center. However, none of them were there to see a laser show! They had all come to experience an immersive workshop designed and facilitated by youth from Sound Discipline’s DOOL program. DOOL (Designing Our Own Learning) is in its…

  • Third Annual “Designing Our Own Learning” Summer Intensive

    This summer Sound Discipline hosted our third annual “Designing Our Own Learning” (DOOL) intensive summer program. For a look back at the first two years of the program, check out Facilitator Alan Wong’s post on the College Spark Foundation’s blog. For two weeks in August, diverse students and teachers from Evergreen High School and Dimmitt…