Erika Noone had served as an assistant principal at Casa Grande High School for three and a half years and is now leading our school as the principal. Noone has many years of experience working with many different schools as an educator. Casa is only one of the many schools she has worked with. Noone worked at Rincon Valley Village Elementary, Binkley Elementary, and Austin Creek, originally as a teacher then as a Student Support Coordinator, and was the principal of Summer School at Whited Elementary and Madrone Elementary.

In college at Sonoma State University, Noone was a Hutchins major, which is a Liberal Arts program, before getting her K-6 credential, admin credential, and then her Master’s degree in administration at Sonoma State.

Noone would like to make Casa a place that students want to go to and help teachers help students. Noone would like to initiate use of multi-tiered systems of support to help students who may do well in one subject but struggle with another, as Casa does not currently have tutors to help students. 

One of Noone’s inspirations is her mom, who was an educator for 30 years. At first, Noone did not want to be a teacher, but her

high school teachers, Ms. Amercon and Ms.Tribino, inspired her and helped her throughout high school, leading her to choose education as her career path.

Noone describes herself as hard working, committed, and able to multi-task well, and her co-workers agree. For Noone, the most challenging thing about being a principal is understanding that she can’t control or fix everything no matter how much she wants to make Casa a better place for staff and students. In her words, “there are undeniably things I can’t control, and it is frustrating when I want to help.”

Before working at Casa, she was a little reluctant to work with high school students because in her previous 15 years of work experience, she had worked with elementary school students. After becoming a principal, she was concerned about being held accountable for most things that will happen at Casa, whether it was her fault or not. 

Rising above these challenges, Noone plans to help the staff members to be happy to come to work and to enjoy working at Casa. She wants Casa to be a place that “help[s] students feel safe and comfortable where they learn and grow to whoever they want to be.”