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Noble High School: Smaller Learning Communities Design Studio
- Title
- Design Studio: Creating and Sustaining Smaller Learning Communities Where All Students Achieve
- Date and Location(s)
- May 2-4, 2007
- Noble High School
- North Berwick, ME
- What will you see when you visit Noble?
- Visitors to Noble High School will see evidence of effective teaching and learning teams. Students and teachers at NHS are members of heterogeneous grade level teams 9-12. Our school is divided into 3 vertical learning academies. Students stay on the same academy for 4 years. Teams of teachers have common planning and teaching time in order to collaborate in support of students and develop interdisciplinary curriculum. Our SLC's are committed to delivering rigorous, authentic curriculum to all students and differentiating to meet the needs of diverse learners. Visitors will see project based learning, portfolio assessments, block scheduling, and personalization. In three days at Noble you will experience our strong sense of community, and collaborative, risk taking culture. Visitors will also realize that Noble, like any other school, is a work in progress. We are constantly reflecting on our successes and challenges as we work to better serve our students.
- Who should visit Noble?
- A visit to Noble may be useful to any team looking to see effective, sustainable and deeply embedded smaller learning communities. We began teaming at NHS 16 years ago. Participation in the SLC project has helped us strengthen and further imbed personalization into our practice. While we are a rural, largely white school, we believe learning about our practices can inform other schools regardless of size, demographics or location. Our hope for Design Studio participants is not that you will adopt our practices, but that seeing the way we have implemented SLC's will help you move forward with your own SLC work.
Description
Participants will benefit from an interactive multi-day workshop that includes action planning, observations of classes, interviews with staff members and students, and networking with other high schools.
For a more complete description of these Key Design Principles and a description of Noble High School, see Noble's Key Design Principles.
| School Demographics – Noble HS | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| African American | Anglo | Asian | Hispanic | Native American | Other Ethnicity | Economically Disadvantaged |
| 0% | 99% | 1% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 18% |
| School Populations – Noble High School | ||
|---|---|---|
| Students | Teachers | SLC Schools in this district |
| 1,077 | 75.8 | 1 |
Demographic data collected from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data.
Space is limited to five (5) teams. Participants need to contact our staff to assure their registration in this Design Studio Workshop.
Who Should Attend
This Design Studio workshop is designed for five (5) high school teams from schools interested in developing Smaller Learning Communities. Teams may include Principal/Administrator, Project Director/Site Coodinator, and three teachers and/or counselor.
Cost
$1,800.00 for a team of 5 Additional participants can be added at a cost of $400/person. Teams of less than 5 will be charged full registration fee.
Hotel options:
The closest hotels to the high school are located approximately 20-30 minutes away. Comfort Inn and Suites (1-800-215-2167) is located in Dover, NH, located 20 minutes from Noble High School. Holiday Inn (603-431-8000) is located in Portsmouth, NH, located approximately 30 minutes from Noble. There are three airports equidistant (about an hour) from the high school: Boston, MA, Portland, ME, and Manchester, NH.
Continental breakfasts, lunches, snacks and Design Studio materials are provided with your registration fee. Registration forms received without a purchase order number or enclosed check will not reserve your spot at the Design Studio. Faxed registrations with purchase order numbers will be accepted. Should you need to cancel your registration, refunds (minus a $250 administrative fee) are available with written notification at least ten (10) working days prior to the Design Studio.
Sponsors
- Serving Smaller Learning Communities Partnership [www.nwrel.org/scpd/sslc]
- Education Alliance at Brown University [www.lab.brown.edu]
Contact
For information about the Design Studio and registration please contact Ann Keravich, 207-676-2843, e-mail: akeravich@sad60.k12.me.us or Heidi Early-Hersey, 207-676-2843 option 6 off the main menu, e-mail: hearly@sad60.k12.me.us.
