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Dear Noble Family, In January, we released Noble’s commitment to anti-racism (ARC), authored by our network-wide DEI Steering Committee. This commitment pushes Noble to be a more just organization, honor the work, voices, perspectives, and experiences of all of our people, and strive to be actively antiracist in all that we do. We know that anti-racism is a journey, not a destination and it is a journey we are committed to doing together. Since the launch of the ARC, Noble has done a lot of work. We set out to center the voices of our community as we examine and [...]

Dear Noble Family, We did it. We’ve come through a full year of unprecedented change and we did it together. I am so proud of the work we’ve done to make this a monumental year. I know that Noble is coming out of this pandemic stronger as a community. When I think about all we’ve accomplished, it is wild to believe it has been just a single school year: We started the year with a call to get in good trouble. More than 4,000 parents, staff, students, and community partners answered the call by completing our community survey, [...]

At the outset of the 2020 school year, Noble set a bold and ambitious goal of becoming a more antiracist organization. Since then, Noble announced our anti-racism commitment (ARC), we engaged thousands of families in surveys and feedback to guide a reexamination of policies and practice. Since February, grounded in that feedback from parents, students, and alumni, ARC design teams have been meeting to guide the way forward on Noble policy and practice as it relates to our student code of conduct, uniform, promotion and graduation requirements, curriculum design and more. Those design teams then shared draft proposals with groups of Noble stakeholders for intensive [...]