Is this you? As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.
Claim your profile
Articles by Anna Noble
Cleland Immunoblotting Unmasks Unexpected Cysteine Redox Proteoforms
Abstract Cysteine redox proteoforms are virtually unstudied because they are extremely difficult to detect. They are difficult to detect by immunoblotting when the polyethylene glycol (PEG)-payloads used to mobility-shift proteoforms into distinct bands block antibody binding. Here, we synthesised a novel compound to reversibly crosslink the PEG-payloads to oxidised cysteines using disulfide bonds.
401(k) Actual Deferral Percentage Compliance Test Basics — Ascensus
By Anna Noble, CPC, QPA, QKA, TGPC, CIP, CHSP What is the ADP test? The actual deferral percentage (ADP) test is a compliance test that many 401(k) plans are subject to. (Exceptions include owner-only plans, and so-called “safe harbor” plans.) This is only one of many nondiscrimination tests.
An examination of public discourse about teachers’ collective bargaining rights in a portfolio school district
An examination of public discourse about teachers’ collective bargaining rights in a portfolio school district [1] University of Colorado Localización: Archivos Analíticos de Políticas Educativas=Education Policy Analysis Archives, ISSN-e 1068-2341, Vol. 31, Nº.
An examination of public discourse about teachers’ collective bargaining rights in a portfolio school district
Abstract Employing an institutional logics framework and critical discourse analysis, this study examines the discourse of participants in a stakeholder-feedback meeting about a proposal by the Denver Public School board to extend collective bargaining rights to teachers in the district's innovation schools.
Safe Harbor 401(k) Basics — Ascensus
By Anna Noble, QKA, QPA, TGPC, CIP What is a safe harbor 401(k) plan? A safe harbor 401(k) is a specific 401(k) retirement plan design that allows sponsoring employers to avoid certain compliance testing. Many aspects of 401(k) plans are subject to compliance testing to ensure that higher paid employees and owners don’t benefit from the plan disproportionately in comparison with the rank-and-file employees.
We Need Better Education Policy. Summit Public Schools Shows Why.
Summit Public Schools (SPS), a California-based charter school network established in 2003, is widely promoted nationally as a success story to be emulated. A policy environment friendly to charter schools and digital technologies, together with hundreds of millions of dollars in technology industry contributions, enabled its growth and its national visibility.
Big Tech Sees Big Profits in Social-Emotional Learning at School
Miss a day, miss a lot. Subscribe to The Defender's Top News of the Day. It's free.
ICE Still Partners with Local Cops
When Joe Biden ran against President Donald Trump in 2020, he promised to fight back against anti-immigrant policies, including those that punished “sanctuary cities” and that gave more local authorities power to act as an extra arm of federal immigration enforcement. More than one year into Biden’s presidency, his administration has done little to support so-called sanctuaries — cities, counties or states that limit how much they help federal agents to investigate, arrest or detain immigrants.
Big Tech Sees Big Profits in Social-Emotional Learning at School
In June 2021, as students and teachers were finishing up a difficult school year, Priscilla Chan, wife of Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, made a live virtual appearance on the “Today” show, announcing that the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), along with its “partner” Gradient Learning, was launching Along, a new digital tool to help students and teachers create meaningful connections in the aftermath of the pandemic.
Abortion Bans Aren't Pro-Life
Abortion bans are not pro-life. They're pro-poverty and pro-inequality. I’ll tell you what we can do about it in a moment. But first, let me explain how these bans worsen inequalities. You’ve probably heard of the two abortion cases making their way through the courts. But it’s not just Texas and Mississippi’s new bans.
Concerns about Big Tech harvesting school childrens' data Original
Anna L. Noble 19th March 2022, 15:40 GMT+11 In June 2021, as students and teachers were finishing up a difficult school year, Priscilla Chan, wife of Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, made a live virtual appearance on the "Today" show, announcing that the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), along with its "partner" Gradient Learning, was launching Along, a new digital tool to help students and teachers create meaningful connections in the aftermath of the pandemic.
Concerns about Big Tech harvesting school children's data
Anna L. Noble 19th March 2022, 15:40 GMT+11 In June 2021, as students and teachers were finishing up a difficult school year, Priscilla Chan, wife of Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, made a live virtual appearance on the "Today" show, announcing that the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), along with its "partner" Gradient Learning, was launching Along, a new digital tool to help students and teachers create meaningful connections in the aftermath of the pandemic.
Some educators spend little extra time in the communities where they teach. Doing so can pay real dividends.
Some years ago, as he was concluding his sermon, my pastor asked us in the audience to take that Sunday’s message out into the world and “do life together.” My pastor’s call was a reminder that we do not walk this human journey in isolation. We do so as members of communities created around our faiths, our hometowns, our families — and our schools. The most powerful of those communities are created through daily actions that show care and develop connection.
My teachers mispronounced my name. Decades later, it still stings — and influences the way I coach educators.
Carroll, Gregory, Dionne, Mario: When I was in fifth grade, my class roster included names that my teachers surely had seen before. Yet I can still recall the way they butchered mine. “Dionne” — pronounced Dee-OWN — had a least four variations that included Dee-On, Dye-Own, Day-On, and Dianne. Whenever teachers mispronounced my name, it made me feel they had taken a shortcut and that the added step of learning the correct pronunciation wasn’t worth the effort.
I was grateful for parent fundraising at my school — until I realized the cost
Parents at a New York City school made and sold pies to raise money for their school. (Photo: Carrie Melago/ Chalkbeat) First Person is an occasional Chalkbeat series featuring personal essays by educators, students, parents, and others trying to improve public education. “We’re really lucky here. We have it better than most. Our parents are a force to be reckoned with.” That’s what my co-workers said to me as I started out my career teaching in Denver Public Schools. And it was true.
Newark asked for $37M in ’emergency aid’ for schools. The state gave it $4 million.
The state has agreed to give Newark an extra $4 million for its schools this year — a tiny fraction of the nearly $37 million the district sought. Newark requested the “emergency aid” in August, saying it needed extra dollars to pay for teacher salaries, textbooks, and school repairs such as asbestos removal and new fire alarms.
Denver’s newly elected school board vice president is seeking a seat in state legislature
Jennifer Bacon, who was elected vice president of the Denver school board last week, has announced she’s running for state office but plans to keep her board seat. In addition to representing northeast Denver on the school board, Bacon said she wants to represent District 7 in the Colorado House of Representatives. The district includes the northeast Denver neighborhoods of Montbello, Green Valley Ranch, Stapleton, and parts of Park Hill.
What happened when Denver student journalists wrote about racist taunts at soccer games
Denver student journalists writing about racist taunts at high school boys’ soccer games sparked a change that could help prevent similar incidents in the future. On Tuesday, students and staff from Bruce Randolph School and DSST: Byers met to draft a “fan policy” that will be read aloud before each school’s sports games. It says fans should be “positive role models,” and that antagonistic or hateful behavior won’t be tolerated.
I thought Local School Councils were a way to make a difference. Here’s why I resigned.
I went to elementary school before Local School Councils existed. I was a CPS student. My mother was a CPS clerk who retired during the Arne Duncan years. My grandmother, a secretary at the CPS District 3 office, started as a Greeley Elementary volunteer in 1971. Chicago Public Schools, and how it has changed over my lifetime, is not a mystery to me.
I’m a trans educator who’s had to fight for my place in school. Here’s how you could help, and learn from, teachers like me.
If you’ve heard anything about transgender youth lately, you probably know that they are some of our most at-risk youth. Trans students, who make up 2% of high school students, are disproportionately likely to experience depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, and substance abuse. Twelve years ago, that was me — I came out as a transgender boy at age 16 and I struggled to navigate life at home and at school.
My students joyfully tracked my pregnancy. Then they witnessed my very public loss.
This is how the pregnant teacher nightmare begins: I’m standing in front of my students when my water breaks. It’s a dramatic gush and all 25 horrified teenage eyes are on me. Amniotic fluid pools around my feet and I scream. Then my students scream. As a high school teacher, I’d frequently worried about my water breaking in class. Or during a fire drill evacuation. Or while proctoring a state test.
My son didn’t get into any of the schools he wanted. My disappointment made me realize I’d been hoarding opportunity.
When my younger son applied for middle school this spring, we knew things would be different from when his older brother went through the admissions process. Our Brooklyn school district, District 15, had just done away selective middle school admissions as part of a diversity plan, and our son was part of the first cohort to be assigned to a middle school via lottery.
As a New York City teacher, I screened 4-year-olds for gifted programs. Here is what I learned.
When I was a classroom teacher in Brooklyn, I was usually focused on that role. But for two years, I also worked on the weekends to administer tests to 4-year-olds. Those children had parents who wanted to see whether they could be eligible for the city’s system of gifted and talented programs, where admission is generally based on a screening exam given to preschoolers.
I’m teaching science in the era of climate change. Here's how I'm coping — in the classroom and at the climate strike.
Another school year has started. This week, I returned to my science classroom of six years to prepare it for hundreds of children’s explorations of life on earth. Then I began the annual ritual of introducing hundreds of children to my science lab, teaching them routines, and learning names. I’m both relieved and apprehensive to be going back.
It’s still possible to take action on school segregation. Here’s how we’re doing it in San Antonio.
For the last several weeks, Americans have been talking about integration in our schools. For someone who does this work every day, it’s an exciting moment, as the benefits of economic and racial integration — not just to black, Latino, or low-income students, but to all — are increasingly clear. I’ve seen those benefits up close, first as a student of color in a highly diverse school in Los Angeles and now as a school system leader deep in the heart of Texas.
I didn’t get into any of my top high school choices. Then I learned to love my safety school.
New York City’s intense high school choice process ends with students being matched to one of more than 400 high schools — at least most of the time. Here’s one take on the stressful rite of passage from a student who has had time to reflect on it. When I walked into first period art class, I was hit with the question: “Where did you get in?” It was a Monday morning in the spring of my eighth-grade year, and we had all gotten our high school acceptance letters over the weekend.
Show More
loading
Actions
Is this you?
As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.Get in touch with Anna
Contact Anna, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.
Learn more about Muck Rack