In 1998, Angela Jerabek, a guidance counselor at a high school outside Minneapolis, grew frustrated watching too many ninth-graders fail courses year after year. Her principal encouraged her to come up with a new strategy to address the problem, knowing that failed classes too often lead students to drop out of high school.1 By the next school year, Jerabek had developed Building Assets, Reducing Risks (BARR)—a research-based program that “empowers educators to analyze real-time data and build upon individual strengths to support academic, social, and emotional success for every student.”
Read Full Article »
