Nobel BSAP 2024-2025
Nobel Charter Middle School Black Student Achievement Plan
BSAP MISSION To create an environment that holds and maintain a safe space to empower Black students to attain high achievement, high academic performance, achieve social-emotional awareness, and positive cultural identity through mentorship, exposure to authentic and diverse representation of blackness, and stressing the importance of community investment.
Meet the BSAP Team
Kaylyn Redmond
Assistant Principal
Venus Lindo
BSAP School Counselor
Caitllin Trepp
BSAP Teacher Designee
Sayuri Olivera
BSAP School Climate Advocate
Darnique Fluker
BSAP Community Representative
BSAP Mantra "Successful Black student achievement is defined by high academic performance, strong social - emotional awareness and management, and positive cultural identity. Furthermore, strategies and methods utilized to cultivate these things shall due in large to the historic and ongoing social and economic conditions experienced by Black people."
Our Vision To support and elevate Black students to reach their highest potential
Black Student Achievement Program (BSAP)
The Black Student Achievement Program (BSAP) is an LAUSD program to support Black students' road to high academic performance, strong social-emotional awareness and management, and a positive cultural identity.
The BSAP addresses the need for culturally responsive curriculum and instruction as the classroom norm, fosters partnerships with community based organizations with proven track records of success within the Black community, and provides increased staffing support to address the academic and social-emotional needs of Black students.
Success Indicators
Academic Achievement
-Graduation rate increase
-Attendance and chronic absenteeism rate decrease
-Increase enrollment in Advanced Placement and honors courses
-Increase proficiency in Math and ELA/English
-Increase number of students on track in the A-G Requirements
-Increase number of students at or above benchmark in the literacy skills
-Decrease 1st time referrals for special education services
School Experience and Support
-Every student has an advocate
- Increase access to mental and social – emotional healthy resources
- Increase favorable school experience survey responses
-Access to culturally responsive curriculum and pedagogy
-Decreases discipline rates (arrests, suspensions, referrals)
-Elimination of policies and practices that contributes to school to prison pipeline
Engagement
-Increase levels of parent and family engagement
-Increase participation in extracurricular activities at school
-Increase presence of community organizations on campus
NOBEL BSAP TEAM PROVIDES:
Emphasis on the Whole Child
BSU Black Student Union
School Counselor
Incentive Reward Program
Conflict Management Restorative Practices
Student Meeting and Engagement
Community Partnerships with CSUN
Field Trips
Guest Speakers
Heart Mentor Peer Program
Family Nights
Lunch Time Game Activities
BSAP Wellness Center
Homework Support
Birthday Schoology Announcements
Black Excellence Academic Highlight
Students are encouraged to participate in all school activities. Our students placed third for representing Howard University (HBCU) during College Awareness Month.
8th Grade Field trip to Loyola Marymount University
Parent Meeting Information
BSAP Rewards are for students that improve, excel, are caught helping others, and participate in school events.
Mobile Science Museum
Students experience the diversity of life in our local coast and conduct research in a Museum Lab.
Community Partnerships
CSUN W.E.B. DuBois Fannie Lou Hamer Institute Academic Achievement
InspireFlow Arts Young Gifted and Excellent-Mind Ya Business
The Village Nation
How has BSAP impacted Nobel Students?
Student Workshops Fall Semster
BLACK STUDENT UNION
Teacher Advisor: Mr. Al-Kareem Talley Room 14
Nobel Students meet with Loyola's Marymount University's African American Students. Students learn about the (OBSS) and how they strive to a family-oriented community for students to succeed.
BSU Students Cadence Grooms, Benni Knight, and Lauren Cash help promote our union! Great job girls! We handed out more than 100 interest forms!!!
Nobel CMS Black Student Union 2023 –2024 SPONSOR/Teacher Advisor: Mr. Al-Kareem Talley Room 14 OFFICERS: President: Bjorn Mekaria Vice President: Damir Hunter Secretary: Jazz Fluker Treasurer: Andrea Jones Co-Treasurer: Lawrence Singleton
Our BSU Students are mentored and inspired to achieve high expectations and are guided towards becoming a better version of themselves.
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CSUN and LAUSD are partnering to build a community of educators and college students, called the Black Student Achievement Alliance, that will lend support and encourage Black middle school students to believe they can go to college and succeed.
All Nobel Families/Guardians and Community Members are Encouraged to Participate