November 21, 2025 | Monthly Network Meeting
Meeting Summary for Sound Reengagement Collaborative | November 21, 2025 Network Meeting
Summary created Angela Pierce-Ngo
Overview
This meeting of the Sound Reengagement Collaborative focused on wrapping up October’s collaborative activity to identify next steps in addressing threats and opportunities, and planned for their upcoming first Reengagement Advocacy Day in January 2026.
Topic 1: SRC Research Fellowship Update
SRC Research Fellow, Daniel Evans, provided an update of progress in their research project. Watch the update video below:
Topic 2: Sharing Back Our Shared Values
The SRC Advisory Committee took the summarized notes and feedback from the October meeting to craft value statements for the collaborative. The value statements were:
Young people and adult learners who are furthest from educational and social justice must be at the center of strategy, decision-making, and efforts to effect change.
Collective strength lies in a shared understanding of complex work, equity-based thinking, and a culture of constant inquiry and reflection.
Meaningful collaboration rests on experiencing joy, cultivating community, nurturing relationships, and building spaces that are inclusive and accessible.
Cross-sector collective action is a form of resistance and a path to change, particularly in the current political and social context.
Topic 3: Advocacy Day Preparation
The Sound Reengagement Collaborative is organizing its first Reengagement Advocacy Day on January 29, 2026, in Olympia. This event will bring together partners, students, and supporters to advocate for opportunity youth and adult learners. To inform their policy agenda, the collaborative is distributing a Community Needs Survey to gather feedback from stakeholders. There will be an optional training provided for attendees and their students on January 8, 2026. If you are interested in getting additional information and to stay updated, fill out the interest form below.
Topic 4: Responding to Threats and Challenges
The collaborative conducted an activity to identify core values, threats, opportunities, and potential partnerships in October and utilized majority of the time at the November Meeting to begin to draft actionable next steps. Using a framework from the Collective Impact Forum, participants were asked to reflect on five elements: core values and tensions, protect (identifying who is under threat), resist (identifying harmful policies), build (determining priorities), and bridge (strengthening relationships with potential supporters). The feedback participants shared will be utilized to craft future meeting agendas and activites for the collaborative to engage in and support the regional network.
Next Steps
There is no network meeting in December, but instead the SRC will be hosting two optional happy hours in both Tacoma and Renton.
Facilitators will compile notes from the activity to begin crafting actionable next steps and activities for the collaborative in 2026.
The next network meeting is on January 23, 2026 at Tacoma Community College.
