In episode 3 of Changing the Course: Building An Antiracist Education Season 2, Nicholas Jones talks with George Beecham, a Noble alum and 9th-grade biology teacher at Chicago Bulls College Prep, and Norma Gutierrez, Noble Schools' Assistant Director of Student Experience.

During the conversation, Beecham and Gutierrez talk about their work to create better school experiences for our Black boys. Beecham focuses on his perspective and experience as an alum of Bulls Prep now coming back as a teacher. Gutierrez speaks about her work with the Black Boys Collaborative, a group designed to address the educational inequities we see our Black boys facing.

You can read more about Beecham and Gutierrez at nobleschools.org/blog

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Parts of this episode:

00:00 - Intro
00:38 - Black Boy Joy at Noble Schools
12:24 - Holistically Supporting Our Black Boys
22:01 - Get Down to Practice
23:43 - Epilogue
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"Changing the Course: Building An Antiracist Education" is a video podcast series for all 6th through 12th-grade teachers, educators, and staff who want to provide an antiracist education for their students. Hear stories, tips, and successful strategies from principals, teachers, staff, students, and families at Noble Schools, a leading public charter school network in Chicago, IL.

Visit us at nobleschools.org to learn more about Noble Schools.
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Watch Season One of Changing the Course:

Episode One: https://youtu.be/tpTblocTLBA
Episode Two: https://youtu.be/ilwNR9QvwRE
Episode Three: https://youtu.be/iAs2cul-FdY
Episode Four: https://youtu.be/iBtdoGA2UXk
Episode Five: https://youtu.be/kL4oKE5CwkQ
Episode Six: https://youtu.be/7umz2T2Opog
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Credits:
Hosted by Nicholas Jones, Manager of Student Support and Culture at Noble Schools.
Produced by Janelle Jones, Nicholas Jones, and Ashe Kenyon.
Edited by Ashe Kenyon & Jasmin Stackhouse.
Music by Angel Mancilla, mixed and edited by David Redick.
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Want to send us a question? Email us at communications@nobleschools.org with the subject line "Question for Changing the Course"

In this season's second episode of Noble Schools' video podcast, "Changing the Course: Building An Antiracist Education", we talk with Ayanna Banks and Yesenia Maldonado, leaders of student experience and social-emotional learning at Noble Schools.

In their roles, both Banks and Maldonado have a significant impact on how Noble Schools listens to students and what they do with that knowledge. In this episode, they talk about how Noble Schools incorporates social-emotional learning into classrooms, how that learning is informed by student voice, and why it is important to building antiracist schools.

You can read more about Banks and Maldonado at nobleschools.org/blog

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Parts of this episode:

00:00 - Intro
00:38 - Working with Student Experience Data
11:16 - Centering Student & Family Voice in Social-Emotional Learning
22:33 - Bringing Social-Emotional Learning into the Classroom
36:05 - Getting Down to Practice
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"Changing the Course: Building An Antiracist Education" is a video podcast series for all 6th through 12th-grade teachers, educators, and staff who want to provide an antiracist education for their students. Hear stories, tips, and successful strategies from principals, teachers, staff, students, and families at Noble Schools, a leading public charter school network in Chicago, IL.

Visit us at nobleschools.org to learn more about Noble Schools.
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Watch Season One of Changing the Course:

Episode One: https://youtu.be/tpTblocTLBA
Episode Two: https://youtu.be/ilwNR9QvwRE
Episode Three: https://youtu.be/iAs2cul-FdY
Episode Four: https://youtu.be/iBtdoGA2UXk
Episode Five: https://youtu.be/kL4oKE5CwkQ
Episode Six: https://youtu.be/7umz2T2Opog
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Credits:
Hosted by Nicholas Jones, Manager of Student Support and Culture at Noble Schools.
Produced by Janelle Jones, Nicholas Jones, and Ashe Kenyon.
Edited by Ashe Kenyon & Jasmin Stackhouse.
Music by Angel Mancilla, mixed and edited by David Redick.
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Want to send us a question? Email us at communications@nobleschools.org with the subject line "Question for Changing the Course"

"Changing the Course: Building An Antiracist Education" is back for season two to continue following our journey in building antiracist classrooms. In this first episode, we talk with Jennifer Reid Davis and D Nigel Green, leaders of Noble's Equity team. They recap our equity work up to now and talk about the things that have and have not worked at our schools and how we're adjusting. Most of all, they hit one point over and over again: We can't stop now. We have to keep doing the work.

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Parts of this episode:

00:00 - Intro
03:45 - History of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion at Noble
16:57 - Where We Are Now
26:53 - Measuring Outcomes
30:25 - Why We Have to Continue This Work Now
40:05 - The Role of Social-Emotional Learning
43:33 - Getting Down to Practice

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"Changing the Course: Building An Antiracist Education" is a video podcast series for all 6th through 12th-grade teachers, educators, and staff who want to provide an antiracist education for their students. Hear stories, tips, and successful strategies from principals, teachers, staff, students, and families at Noble Schools, a leading public charter school network in Chicago, IL.

Visit us at nobleschools.org to learn more about Noble Schools.
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Watch Season One of Changing the Course:

Episode One: https://youtu.be/tpTblocTLBA
Episode Two: https://youtu.be/ilwNR9QvwRE
Episode Three: https://youtu.be/iAs2cul-FdY
Episode Four: https://youtu.be/iBtdoGA2UXk
Episode Five: https://youtu.be/kL4oKE5CwkQ
Episode Six: https://youtu.be/7umz2T2Opog
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Credits:
Hosted by Nicholas Jones, Manager of Student Support and Culture at Noble Schools.
Produced by Janelle Jones, Nicholas Jones, and Ashe Kenyon.
Edited by Ashe Kenyon.
Music by Angel Mancilla, mixed and edited by David Redick.
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Want to send us a question? Email us at communications@nobleschools.org with the subject line "Question for Changing the Course"

In this episode, we talk with Lyndsay Cowles and Tierionna Pinkston — two leaders of Noble Schools’ Academics team.

Cowles and Pinkston talk about their work in supporting teachers this year through the policy changes at Noble Schools and through the pandemic. They highlight topics from what struggles they saw teachers encounter this year to the plans they are creating next year to better support teachers.

After this episode, we will be taking a hiatus until the school year starts up again. Make sure to check back in for Season 2 in the fall!

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Parts of this episode:

00:00 - Intro
00:33 - Meeting our guests
02:48 - The shifts & struggles for teachers this year
25:13 - How administration is supporting teachers
35:47 - Anti-racism work in instructional leadership
40:34 - Get down to practice

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"Changing the Course: Building An Antiracist Education" is a video podcast series for all 6th through 12th-grade teachers, educators, and staff who want to provide an antiracist education for their students. Hear stories, tips, and successful strategies from principals, teachers, staff, students, and families at Noble Schools, a leading public charter school network in Chicago, IL.

Visit us at nobleschools.org to learn more about Noble Schools.
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Watch past episodes of Changing the Course:

Episode One: https://youtu.be/tpTblocTLBA
Episode Two: https://youtu.be/ilwNR9QvwRE
Episode Three: https://youtu.be/iAs2cul-FdY
Episode Four: https://youtu.be/iBtdoGA2UXk
Episode Five: https://youtu.be/kL4oKE5CwkQ
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Credits:
Hosted by Nicholas Jones, Manager of Student Support and Culture at Noble Schools.
Produced by Nicholas Jones and Ashe Kenyon
Edited by Ashe Kenyon.
Music by Angel Mancilla, mixed and edited by David Redick.
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Want to send us a question? Email us at communications@nobleschools.org with the subject line "Question for Changing the Course"

In this episode, we talk with Claudia Rodriguez and Ellen Moiani - two members of our Government & Community Affairs team here at Noble Schools.

Claudia and Ellen have both spent years at Noble connecting with the parents and families of our students to make sure their voices are heard, both by Noble leadership and government officials. In this episode, they touch on topics from advocacy trips with Noble parents to Springfield to our recent Family Experience Survey.

Listen to learn more about their work and how it is an integral part of our Anti-Racism Commitment.

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Parts of this episode:

00:00 - Intro
00:37 - Meeting our guests
05:38 - What the Government & Community Affairs Team does
19:19 - How parent feedback is important to Noble and our anti-racism commitment
31:37 - Get Down to Practice

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"Changing the Course: Building An Antiracist Education" is a video podcast series for all 6th through 12th-grade teachers, educators, and staff who want to provide an antiracist education for their students. Hear stories, tips, and successful strategies from principals, teachers, staff, students, and families at Noble Schools, a leading public charter school network in Chicago, IL.

Visit us at nobleschools.org to learn more about Noble Schools.
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Watch past episodes of Changing the Course:

Episode One: https://youtu.be/tpTblocTLBA
Episode Two: https://youtu.be/ilwNR9QvwRE
Episode Three: https://youtu.be/iAs2cul-FdY
Episode Four: https://youtu.be/iBtdoGA2UXk

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Credits:
Hosted by Nicholas Jones, Manager of Student Support and Culture at Noble Schools.
Produced by Nicholas Jones and Ashe Kenyon
Edited by Ashe Kenyon.
Music by Angel Mancilla, mixed and edited by David Redick.
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Want to send us a question? Email us at communications@nobleschools.org with the subject line "Question for Changing the Course"

In this last part of Episode 4, Pruitt talks about why restorative justice and practices are essential to creating antiracist classrooms.

Learn more about Dr. Spicer and Pruitt's work:
Restorative Strategies: https://www.restorativestrategies.expert/
Project Restore Initiative: https://www.projectrestoreinitiative.com/

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"Changing the Course: Building An Antiracist Education" is a video podcast series for all 6th through 12th-grade teachers, educators, and staff who want to provide an antiracist education for their students. Hear stories, tips, and successful strategies from principals, teachers, staff, students, and families at Noble Schools, a leading public charter school network in Chicago, IL.

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Watch more of episode four:

Part One: https://youtu.be/iBtdoGA2UXk

Part Two: https://youtu.be/9zGZLHXjKqc

Part Three: https://youtu.be/o5m7SL5DfAg

Part Four: https://youtu.be/MqmucCNJMRg

Part Five: https://youtu.be/khqCQHwSwH8

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Credits:
Hosted by Nicholas Jones, Manager of Student Support and Culture at Noble Schools.
Produced by Nicholas Jones, Ashe Kenyon, and Rachel Powers.
Edited by Ashe Kenyon.
Music by Angel Mancilla, mixed and edited by David Redick.
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Want to send us a question? Email us at communications@nobleschools.org with the subject line "Question for Changing the Course"