- She had a hard time going to school. She didn't wanna get up. It was a struggle to get her to go. And she looked at me one day and she said to me, mommy, it's hard for me. - We were trying to help him just read a book and he just kind of sort of broke down and threw the book down, threw his hands up and said, I'm so dumb. I'm never gonna get this. - When he was asked to read, his peers would snicker and laugh because he wasn't to their level. - We were trying to do homework and he was struggling. And he just looked at me with tears in his eyes and he said, dad, I'm the dumb one. - And that's when I said to myself, I need to find something better for her. - We have gotta do something fast. - And we've started to realize that there were actual places for kids like Bowman. - Noble serves kids with a variety of learning differences. The typical learning differences that we see here are students with dyslexia, dysgraphia, ADHD, Central Auditory Processing Disorder. So all of our kids have something that makes learning a challenge but it doesn't make the content unattainable for them. - We came and we visited the school. Got a just a really good feeling as we walked through the halls and talked with people and saw how the the classes were working and saw how the children were interacting. - One of the biggest difference at Noble is our class sizes. We have very, very small class sizes. It's a comfort level for them when the students are able to receive that one-on-one instruction and that immediate instruction they're more relaxed than some of the former schools they've come from. - That's the kind of thing at Noble. They're willing to accommodate the student and use their strengths. - They found how she learned and they work with her to help her enjoy school and education. - We've talked to many parents over the years who are just feeling like they've gotten their children back that the battle at after school for homework and those other things doesn't exist anymore. They're able to have a more functional family life because we're addressing those students needs here at school. - He's excited to come to school. He knows what his accommodations are, and he works on those. He's a different kid. - She's excited every day to get up and go to school. I don't have to get her up. I don't have to really wake her up and get her ready. She talks about her teachers. She's telling me the things that she's learned. - He called himself the invisible kid. He was the kid that would sit in the back of the room by himself, never wanted to express his opinion. And now we have this kid who is so confident, he's so goal-oriented, what it's done for him emotionally, psychologically, you can't put a value on that. You just can't. - Observing that growth is special as a teacher here at Noble, to be able to watch students that struggled before really find their way here. - He raised his hand, he asked questions, he talked to the other kids. He's doing it all now. - Bowman left LAUSD making Ds and Fs and he was working hard. And then, we got the first notice that he was on the honor roll, and we were like, wait, is this a typo? (person laughing) His teachers care about him and the environment that he's in, he feels safe and he feels confident. - We feel like we finally found a home here. For so many parents, the battle getting here has been long. It has been arduous. That is the same for me. To finally be able to feel like you're in an educational environment where you're working as a team with the teachers is so important for a family. Me as a single mom, it's incredibly important. - The Noble community has, I think, transformed me as a parent. It has become my community. It's become my support system. It's just been life changing, family changing. - We've gone from feeling completely isolated to feeling like we are part of a huge group of people that have traveled the same road that we've traveled, and we're all coming out of it, thankfully. - We have kids that have learning differences and we've put them all together and then we as parents go, okay, we've done the hard part. (person laughing) And we get to just sit back and watch them thrive. And that's because of the school and the environment that it creates, which is a family for everybody. - These kids have a superpower. If these kids get othered and they don't have opportunities to access the education that they deserve, they're not gonna make the difference in the world that we believe that they can.