Angela Jerabek is the founder and executive director of BARR Center. Jerabek developed the BARR model 20 years ago and has expanded it from one school in the Midwest to more than 200 schools. Jerabek has published five books, several op-eds and articles in various publications, including being featured in USA Today, National Public Radio, and CNBC. She has also presented at the White House at the “Evidence in Education Roundtable” in 2016. Her Education: M.S. Counseling Psychology, B.A. Music Outside of work: Enjoys time with family and friends, music, golfing, reading, and the outdoors.
Trenches story: She talks about her works in schools prior to the foundation of BARR. Angela started The BARR Model (1999), she was working with kids in Minneapolis. Wanted to resign. Principal encouraged her to come up w/ a bigger system. Her kids were small. Had handful of crayons. Called her grandma. Realized she was a better parent cause she had info about her kids when they weren’t there. Realized they needed to focus on relationships & data. Putting all the pieces together. Cut failure rate ½ the first year. Over 10 yrs failure rate stayed in half. Does research grants-78 schools randomized trials-does the system work?
(from website) The BARR model allows staff to better understand and build on students’ strengths, proactively address the non-academic reasons why a student may be falling behind in school and identify what resources they need and steps they can take to thrive. The BARR model uses eight interlocking strategies that build intentional relationships, utilize real-time data, and enable schools to achieve concrete academic, social and emotional outcomes for each and every student.
Talk about some of your books, wrote Building Assets, Reducing Risks, which was created in 1998 to combat the problems of failing grades, substance use, truancy, and discipline referrals taking place at a Minneapolis-area high school Look at ABCs, initial assessment looked at risk results- coach and train for 3 yrs. Robust training/coaching model. Coach works w/ them weekly or more. How is the school working w/ the community. Acknowledge the power of the classroom teacher. They need to work together to come up with solutions. Put the expectation on teachers to find community resources. Click To Tweet. Within one year of implementation, the course failure rate at that school decreased from 44 percent to 28 percent and has remained at 14 percent for the last fifteen years. She wants to talk about how to upload students strong talents.
Talk about the upcoming natl. conference, scheduled for Apr. 26-27 in Rancho Mirage, CA. You’re doing one of the keynotes. Talk a bit about what you plan on speaking to. Proposals & when they’ll be up? 600 attendees this yr, Admin, policy makers, thought leaders. Started as a research study. Bring schools together 1x/month. All these schools will come together- policy makers, geographically distributed. Shows the power of educators. Schools lead breakout sessions. Share successes. Animated/excited group who like to grow their network. Proposals will open up in the summer. Follow their website. Keynotes-focused on natl. issues.
Can mention proposed legislation… (has been working with MN legislation for $5 million for BARR) schools who have done BARR want to expand upon it. Tier 1 Evidence for reading, math, equity, prevention of drugs. Federal govt. doesn’t do systems-level work. Large barrier. Wants to bring larger issue to the conversation. Schools have to get funding from different buckets. Have bi-partisan authorship. Angie was blown away by strong metrics, rural, urban schools. Lived experience was powerful. She’s humbled t’s can share. Built edu system long time ago, BARR helps revised them.
Does some intl consulting- would love to have more intl. schools become BARR Schools.
Out of everything: fact that our staff is incredibly gifted, Schools they work with don’t have turnover. Students enjoy studying there.
Where can ppl find you online? www.barrcenter.org
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