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Fostering community and collaboration between new & seasoned educators
Read More: Fostering community and collaboration between new & seasoned educatorsThe BELONG Partners District Model is a comprehensive approach to school transformation that focuses on building capacity and sustainability within a school district. Through this train-the-trainer model, our experienced facilitators work closely with regional coaches hired by a district to implement the BELONG Partners approach in their schools. One of our original District Model partners […]
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BELONG Partners District Model Schools Hold 2nd Annual Convening in Medford, Oregon
Read More: BELONG Partners District Model Schools Hold 2nd Annual Convening in Medford, OregonThe BELONG Partners Model currently includes 11 schools from across 4 counties and 5 school districts in southern Oregon. This spring we co-hosted our second annual convening of twenty-five educators, representing our eight Whole School Partner schools in Medford, Oregon. They came together to collaboratively reflect on their practice, celebrate their accomplishments, and initiate plans […]
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Growing Through the Changes
Read More: Growing Through the ChangesJust 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 […]
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Campbell Hill Classified Staff use Data and SEL Strategies to Help with Transitions and Recess
Read More: Campbell Hill Classified Staff use Data and SEL Strategies to Help with Transitions and RecessThe classified staff of Campbell Hill Elementary, in Renton, WA, works hard every day to be sure that students know they are safe, belong, and matter in the unstructured spaces like the school playground and cafeteria. This team of educators meet monthly to align their practice, continue their learning about social emotional learning and trauma-responsive […]
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Sound Discipline Working Moms
Read More: Sound Discipline Working MomsTo celebrate International Women’s History Month and National Working Moms’ Day, we are featuring interviews with some amazing working moms here at Sound Discipline. Our Sound Discipline colleagues shared with us how they’ve attempted to balance working and parenting and also how working at Sound Discipline has impacted them as working moms. Stacy Lappin, Director […]
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Celebrating Black History Month with Facilitator Roshaé Lowe
Read More: Celebrating Black History Month with Facilitator Roshaé LoweRoshaé Lowe, Facilitator Why are you an educator/do you work in education? As a child, growing up, education was always presented to me as a pathway – a means to an end, a road that leads to all roads. As an adult, I still see education as a pathway — one that allows people […]
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Celebrating Black History Month with Teague Parker
Read More: Celebrating Black History Month with Teague ParkerTeague Parker, Facilitator Why are you an educator/do you work in education? Being a theatre artist brought me to the world of education! I would lead improv workshops every week through college, TA acting & playwriting classes, and soak up all the ways you could pass information. It felt to me that arts […]
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Celebrating Black History Month with Sylvia Hadnot
Read More: Celebrating Black History Month with Sylvia HadnotSylvia Hadnot, Facilitator and Social Media Coordinator Why are you an educator/do you work in education? I’ve wanted to be a teacher since I was 5 years old. Looking back, I realize that my teachers were some of my first nurturers. I loved their love and the way it made me feel! As […]
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School Discipline Data Points to the Need for Self-Regulation Skills
Read More: School Discipline Data Points to the Need for Self-Regulation SkillsTerminal Park Elementary School in Auburn, WA is one of our Whole School partners. They have an active Data Team made up of staff who are leading the implementation of Sound Discipline work at their school. Data Teams in our partner schools gather and analyze discipline data – which is documentation of when a student […]
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DOOL Youth Inspire Educators to Share Power and Create Equitable Learning Environments
Read More: DOOL Youth Inspire Educators to Share Power and Create Equitable Learning EnvironmentsOn 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 […]