Anti-racism at Noble is the continual process of dismantling the systems or policies at every level of our organization that perpetuate and support racism through assimilationist, patriarchal, white supremacist, and anti-Black culture. Anti-racism means a redistribution of power where the voices, experiences, and brilliance of all of our people – especially Black and Brown students, alumni, staff, and families – inform and shape our decisions. This means centering the voices and experiences of our students, families, and communities in creating culturally relevant schooling that affirms the lived experience and traditions of all who make up our community. Noble is committed to working with our community, accepting our past, and creating a new path forward.
Noble acknowledges that its past policies and practices have promoted assimilationist, patriarchal, white supremacist, and anti-Black culture. Noble is committed to using this moment in our nation’s history to evaluate past practices that may have harmed the academic, social and emotional well being of students, former students, alumni, families, staff and the communities we serve. Noble is devoted to learning from our past and forging a more just future for all that we serve.
In order to continue our path toward becoming an antiracist organization, we, individually and collectively, commit to:
- Reexamining our past policies and practices that have encouraged assimilation or negatively impacted our students, staff, and communities, and where appropriate, intentionally changing policies and practices in the interest of equity
- Addressing anti-Blackness at Noble and redressing that harm
- Institutionalizing continual, critical self-reflection that promotes ownership and culturally responsive and sustaining practices at every level of our organization
- Building our individual and collective consciousness about race and racism and examining our implicit biases and areas of privilege
- Ensuring that all of our community members, including students, families, and staff, have the space to be their authentic selves and ensure their voices are heard.
- Approaching all of our work with a lens of intersectionality – taking into account an individual’s overlapping identities and experiences (e.g. race, gender identity, sexual orientation, social class, citizenship, etc.) – in order for the whole person to be valued and affirmed in all spaces at Noble
- Building curricula that welcomes and affirms each student’s unique identity and values community cultural wealth
*The order of our commitments is not indicative of importance, chronology, or priority. They must all live constantly and continuously.
