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  • Class Meetings

    Class Meetings are an effective way for students to learn many of the life skills that are just as important, long term, as academic skills. Students do not magically know how to safely get into a circle, how to listen respectfully, or how to focus on solutions. These are foundational skills that need to be…

  • Rooted Relationships: Growing Equitable Classroom Communities

    Register for our next public workshop: Tuesdays, April 23 – May 21, 4:30 – 7:30pm To schedule a workshop just for your school or organization, email us at hello@belongpartners.org. Rooted Relationships: Growing Equitable Classroom Communities brings together the most helpful and practical tools from the latest brain science research, culturally responsive teaching, trauma and attachment theory,…

  • Create an Inclusive Classroom Community by Learning Neurodiversity and Brain Science

    Create an Inclusive Classroom Community by Learning Neurodiversity and Brain Science

    March includes both Neurodiversity Celebration Week and Brain Science Awareness Week. Helping students learn about neurodiversity and brain science helps to create an inclusive classroom community while building empathy and self-awareness. Here are a few ways you and your students can explore brain science and neurodiversity.   Learn About Neurodiversity According to this Harvard Medical School…

  • How Family Meetings Can Help Kids Learn to Use Their Voice

    Now that the school year is in full swing, we find ourselves settled into the hectic monotony of rushing kids to school, prepping dinner, and getting ready for bed. How do you connect with your kids and give them a voice in the family amidst the daily chaos? Consider trying out family meetings. Family meetings…

  • Five Ways to Encourage Student Voice and Share Power in the Classroom

    As educators, we may (often unconsciously) hold on to the power in our classrooms. But we do have the choice to share power with our students. Sharing power and prioritizing student voice strengthens students’ sense of belonging and diffuses power-over dynamics between educators and young people. When we let go of some control, we are…

  • Strengthening Student Skills for Classroom Connection

    We are inspired this month by a team of 6 educators, counselors, and school psychologists who are collaborating with Sound Discipline to create social emotional learning lessons for small groups. This project is funded by a Renton Early Learning Support Grant through the Center for Community Education Results (CCER). Stacy Lappin, Director of Program at…

  • Family Meetings

    Family Meetings are structured opportunities for family connection, communication, planning, and problem solving. They are a regular time to sit and share together, and they provide the opportunity for your children to have a voice and for everyone to learn accountability. Family meetings generally follow this structure: compliments, planning, problem solving. When you first start…

  • The Power of Mistakes and Repair in the Classroom

  • In the Classroom, Kindness = Connection + Caring

  • Encouraging Compassion in the Classroom

    We can build classrooms that foster respect, compassion and deep listening, resulting in spaces where students feel safe and where healthy social skills can emerge. The word compassion comes from the words to be “with suffering.” It is our ability to step into the shoes of another person, to care for them without judgment. It…