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Growing Through the Changes

Just 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 the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath, and Sound Discipline has too. Over the years we have grown and changed to be responsive to the communities we serve. We started out in our co-founder, Dr. Jody McVittie’s living room, and now we’re serving [...]

pase2023-05-25T22:29:44+00:00May 25, 2023|

Auburn School District’s All-Staff Wellness Day Lays Foundation for a Culture of Care

“SEL is about preparing students and staff for quality instruction, quality learning, and quality interaction, because that’s where we are spending all of our time.” - Assistant Superintendent Rhonda Larson, Family Engagement & Student Success Dept On September 1, Auburn School District provided a day of wellness training for all 2600 of their staff! Thursday, September 1, we were thrilled to spend the ENTIRE day with Auburn School District Staff during their first All-Staff Wellness training day! This district-wide day of wellness and staff training was planned and executed by a collaborative team at the district level. In [...]

belongpartners2023-05-17T18:32:30+00:00September 30, 2022|

The Mindful Mentors Project in Tukwila School District

The Mindful Mentors Project, in the Tukwila School District, brings together teens and third graders to connect as mentors and mentees, who engage together in learning about social emotional learning, mindfulness, and movement. Partnering with the students on this project are Thrive Centered (formerly Thrive Yoga), an organization that centers embodiment and provides somatic-based SEL and restorative practices for youth K-12, Sound Discipline, Tukwila Elementary School, and Foster High School. Foster High School Mindful Mentor Andy Huynh In Spring of 2021, Thrive Centered, founded by Damithia Nieves, and Sound Discipline, recruited six high school students to serve as [...]

belongpartners2022-03-17T17:35:57+00:00March 17, 2022|

We Belong & Matter: Community Conversations

Sign up for our newsletter to be notified of upcoming community conversations. Previous Events Disrupting the School-to-Prison Pipeline: A Free, Online Community Conversation In partnership with Sound Discipline, CHOOSE180, The Freedom Project WA, and the documentary film Since I Been Down. Tuesday, March 15, 12 - 2:00pm. Registration for this event included a limited, special opportunity to view the documentary film Since I Been Down. Our young people are possibilities to be developed, not problems to be solved. We know that incarceration alternatives make financial sense and human sense for individuals, families, and communities. And yet, [...]

belongpartners2023-05-17T19:05:29+00:00October 7, 2021|

Terminal Park Elementary

We Welcome a New Whole School! Sound Discipline is pleased to announce a new Whole School partnership with Auburn School District’s Terminal Park Elementary. Terminal Park Elementary in the Auburn School District will be a Sound Discipline Whole School for the 2021-22 school year. Professional development for the entire staff will be the initial focus. Sound Discipline will also work with Terminal Park to facilitate a data team, MTSS consultation and coaching, and to offer parent and caregiver workshops. In describing why he and his staff have chosen to work with Sound Discipline for the upcoming school year, Principal [...]

belongpartners2023-05-17T19:00:09+00:00September 3, 2021|

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