Teaching people to do the right thing, even when no one is looking

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Strategies for working with students exposed to trauma.
April 23, 2012 at the 2100 Building in Seattle.
4:00-7:00 PM.
Clock hours (3) will be available. SPACE IS LIMITED. Registration

Teaching Parenting the Positive Discipline Way.
Experiential training for parenting educators. Become certified to teach your own parenting class. May 10 (evening) May 11-12 (all day). Seattle Registration

Positive Discipline in the Classroom.
Become the teacher you want to be with tools to teach students how to do the right thing –even when no one is looking. July 2-3 Registration
If you are a Seattle, Northshore, or Renton School District Employee you may register here.

New study published!

Parenting education helps parents set limits and connect with their children – and parents liked the changes in their families. Dr. McVittie’s study of 1300 families and the significant changes they made is finally in print.

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Tired of nagging or yelling and just want
more fun as a family?
Wondering how to engage the young people
in your home and still maintain clear boundaries?
Are you looking for more respect in your home?

Parenting Educators:

Are your workshops feeling like you are
doing all the work?
Want your participants to be more engaged in learning (and having fun in the process?)

Sound Discipline teaches people to do the right thing, even when no one is looking. Using a research-based, experiential and culturally-responsive approach, Sound Discipline teaches parents and educators to build respectful relationships and use solution-focused problem solving with children and each other. Sound Discipline helps families, schools, and communities eliminate race bias in discipline and foster academic excellence, citizenship, equity, and democracy.

Our whole school model builds an inclusive and socially competent learning community over three years. Each school adapts the program to its own culture and challenges within a clear framework to meet its long term goals. Schools monitor their own progress with regular data evaluations.