Building Assets, Reducing Risks

Entrepreneur: Angie Jerabek, Christina Ritter

BARR Elementary is a strengths-based and whole-school system approach designed to improve the literacy, numeracy, and social-emotional skills and attendance rates of children in grades K-5. BARR’s comprehensive approach allows for collaboration and capacity-building based on two pillars: positive intentional relationships and real-time actionable data. BARR Elementary represents a new offering for an organization that has historically served secondary students through a successfully scaled middle and high school models. Their expansion to elementary school is a new initiative for the organization that builds on their secondary model, while expanding the holistic impact of their work.