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Specialists Find Special Time with Students
Read More: Specialists Find Special Time with StudentsImagine you’re a librarian at an elementary school. You have the unique opportunity of getting to interact with EVERY student in your school community and hopefully instill in them a lifelong love of reading. Cool, right? Here’s the catch: unlike a classroom educator, your time with students is limited and spread out. So, how do […]
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Lunch time! How Bryn Mawr Elementary Creates Community in the Lunchroom
Read More: Lunch time! How Bryn Mawr Elementary Creates Community in the LunchroomWe all have distant memories of a loud, chaotic lunchroom, where students often had their heads down for being too loud and left lunch a bit dysregulated and less ready to learn. At Bryn Mawr Elementary, the staff has creatively addressed one of the key sources of stress for all schools this year – how […]
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Gathering Student Input and Learning About Feelings
Read More: Gathering Student Input and Learning About FeelingsRedwood Elementary in Grants Pass, Oregon is one of the schools in our District Partnerships program. Last school year, the school’s data team collected data about student behaviors that were most challenging to the staff. One of the challenging behaviors was defiance. Initially, the data team started thinking about it from the teachers’ perspective, wondering […]
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Third Annual “Designing Our Own Learning” Summer Intensive
Read More: Third Annual “Designing Our Own Learning” Summer IntensiveThis 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 […]
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Lakeridge Elementary Engages in Culturally Relevant SEL Content Schoolwide/ K-5th grade
Read More: Lakeridge Elementary Engages in Culturally Relevant SEL Content Schoolwide/ K-5th gradeThis month we are featuring some important work being done by two educators at Lakeridge Elementary School in the Renton School District. Jenna Middleton, SEL coach, and Angela Varela, counselor, began with a few questions – What could it look like for our students to receive culturally relevant and responsive lessons? How could we incorporate […]
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A Creative SEL Screener Tool for Remote and In-person Learning
Read More: A Creative SEL Screener Tool for Remote and In-person LearningRemote learning has many challenges, one of the biggest being a lack of connection. Without the ability to read body language, see faces, and spot someone in a hallway, how can educators connect with their students to see how their doing? After the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) mandated the adoption […]
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Lowell Elementary’s Educational Enhancement Site
Read More: Lowell Elementary’s Educational Enhancement SiteWhen the pandemic hit last year and school buildings were shut down, the staff at Lowell Elementary in Seattle quickly saw the disproportionate impact remote learning was having on many of their students of color and those without stable housing. While some students in their school had the technology and support from their caregivers to […]
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Teacher Panel Shares Experience Transitioning to Hybrid and In-Person Learning
Read More: Teacher Panel Shares Experience Transitioning to Hybrid and In-Person Learning“Nothing is going to be perfect, and that’s o.k.” When Sound Discipline convened a group of educators to discuss the transition to in-person learning, this is how Christine Mooney, the Principal of Redwood Elementary School, opened our discussion. Redwood Elementary is in Grants Pass, Oregon. They started the 20-21 school year with grades K-3 in […]
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Dimmitt Middle School Core Values: Equity and Community
Read More: Dimmitt Middle School Core Values: Equity and CommunityThe article about Redwood Elementary staff sharing their experience shifting to in-person and hybrid learning is here. Dimmitt Middle School has been a partner of Sound Discipline for over five years, and we are excited to feature them this month as our Sound Discipline Inspiring Story. In a recent Education Week article, Arianna Prothero stated […]
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Sound Discipline Collaborates with Casey Family Programs
Read More: Sound Discipline Collaborates with Casey Family ProgramsIn November and December we had the privilege to partner with Casey Family Programs to support their incredible work with schools and families working with foster youth. They work tirelessly to create a better future for our communities focusing on safe children, strong families and supportive communities. Over one hundred family support workers, social workers, […]
Sound Discipline is now BELONG Partners!
