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Spotlight on Teaching: What is The “Remote” Noble Classroom #NobleReadyForRemote
Note: this post is part of a series about Noble’s preparation for the upcoming school year. In 2018, Noble teachers, instructional leaders, and Academics team members came together to define what excellent instruction looks like at Noble. After debate and discussion,...
A Chromebook for Every Noble Student #NobleReadyForRemote
Note: this post is part of a series about Noble’s preparation for the upcoming school year. When Illinois closed schools in March, educators had to shift everything in an instant. In-class assignments had to become remote assignments, lectures became videos, group...
Noble In the News: Schooling Covid-19: Lessons from leading charter networks from their transition to remote learning
Last spring, the Covid-19 pandemic upended routines for over 56 million students and challenged more than 3.7 million teachers in over 130,000 schools nationwide to continue educating kids in an online format. This transition to “virtual learning” was understandably...
Custom Zoom Backgrounds for ALL Noble Campuses #NobleReadyForRemote
Note: this post is part of a series about Noble’s preparation for the upcoming school year. Sport your Noble campus pride with these custom Zoom backgrounds!How-to add to Zoom instructions at the bottom. To add a Zoom background, click on the image you’d like...
Spotlight on the Noble Leadership Retreat #NobleReadyForRemote
Note: this post is part of a series about Noble’s preparation for the upcoming school year. Each year Noble gathers leaders from across our organization in June for a retreat where we come together to inform the path for the upcoming year. The group includes campus...
How Noble’s Remote Learning Plan Came Together #NobleReadyForRemote
This post is part of a series about Noble’s preparation for the upcoming school year.
Across the country school districts everywhere are grappling with decisions about how they should open their doors in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. We sat down with Ellen Metz, Noble’s head of schools, to learn about how the Noble reopening plan came together.
Spotlight On Tech and Innovation: How is Noble planning to reach students remotely? #NobleReadyForRemote
This post is part of a series about Noble’s preparation for the upcoming school year.
So how is Noble going to make sure students log on and learn? How will Noble keep track of students who might be falling behind? Moon Lee is the Chief of Data and Innovation at Noble and his team has been hard at work behind the scenes to create some tools to help for an upcoming school year like no other.
How Did Seniors Make Decisions During the Remote Spring? #NobleReadyForRemote
This post is part of a series about Noble’s preparation for the upcoming school year.
So how did seniors and their college counselors manage the FAFSA, application deadlines, scholarships and all the rest of the college process? We sat down with Noble college counselor Kameshia Ward and Hansberry College Prep Class of 2020 graduate Jalynn Neal to hear how things went.
NobleFit Provides Free Weekly Virtual Yoga for the Noble Community #NobleReadyforRemote
This post is part of a series about Noble’s preparation for the upcoming school year.
Seeing the impact yoga had made on his own life, Cattouse also brought yoga into his NobleFit classroom at Rauner. “I would have specific days (1-2 times a month) that would be strictly yoga sessions. I would use them as recovery days for my classes that worked really hard for a couple weeks straight,” Cattouse explained. His students would also med
Noble in the News: A Noble Response to a Noble Virus
Noble Network of Charter Schools found out on a Friday that school would be closed the next Monday for the foreseeable future. Monica Bromber-Karis, Director of Dining Services, spent the whole weekend brainstorming, planning, and implementing food distribution...