1. Building Assets Reducing Risks BARR Hamilton High School- Hemet High School- Tahquitz High School- West Valley High School

2. BARR History 1999: BARR is created at St.Louis Park High School in Minnesota by 9 th grade counselor, Angela Jerabek. 2010: The U.S. Department of Education awards BARR an Investing in Innovation (i3) Developmental grant to conduct further study and expand to high schools in California, Maine, and Minnesota. 2013: The U.S. Department of Education awards BARR an i3 Validation grant to continue studies and expand to 60 new schools over the next five years. 2015–16: BARR will be used in more than 20 schools across seven states, reaching more than 13,000 students.

3. What is BARR? The BUILDING ASSETS REDUCING RISKS (BARR) model increases student achievement by improving a school’s effectiveness at building relationships, leveraging real-time student data, and capitalizing on the strengths of each student

4. BARR achieves these goals through eight research- based strategies:

5. School– Level Strategies 1. Providing training to help administrators integrate the model into their school structure; 2. Providing professional development for teachers, counselors, and administrators on the importance of student-teacher relationships and using relationships to enhance achievement; 3. Restructuring course and school schedules so that teachers work in teams and with a shared group of students to increase opportunities for building relationships; 4. Engaging families in student learning,

6. Student– Level Strategies 5. Focusing on the whole student, so teachers can better understand students’ strengths and proactively address the nonacademic reasons why they may be failing classes; 6. Using BARR’s I-Time Curriculum, which supplements a school’s existing curriculum, to help students and staff build personal strengths and relationships that will help students become successful in life, such as communicating effectively and setting personal goals; 7. Holding regular meetings of teachers who work in teams to problem solve collaboratively; and 8. Conducting risk review meetings for persistently low performing students.

7. BARR’s I-Time Curriculum Classroom Curriculum This Developmental Assets Curriculum stimulates social- emotional learning. It consists of 37 weekly, 30- minute sessions delivered by the block/team teachers. The focus is on building relationships among students and with the teacher.

8. How do we know it’s working? Let’s look at the data….

9. HAMILTON HIGH SCHOOL Academic Year 9 th Grade Failure Rate (students with one or more F’s) 2010-201131% 2011-201228% 2012-201339% 2013-201431% 2014-2015 1 st Year in BARR 16% 2015-2016 (TRIAD 1) 27%

10. HEMET HIGH SCHOOL Academic Year 9 th Grade Failure Rate (students with one or more F’s) 2010-2011 9 th grade RAGE 22% 2011-2012 BARR RCT Year 21% BARR 32% Non BARR 2012-2013 BARR Year 18% 2013-2014 BARR Year 18% 2014-2015 BARR Year 21% 2015-2016 (TRIAD 1) 21%

11. Academic Year 9 th Grade Failure Rate (students with one or more F’s) 2010-201143% 2011-201241% 2012-201339% 2013-201435% 2014-2015 1 st Year in BARR 26% 2015-2016 (TRIAD 1) 28% TAHQUITZ HIGH SCHOOL

12. West Valley High School Academic Year 9 th Grade Failure Rate (students with one or more F’s) 2010-201143% 2011-201242% 2012-201345% 2013-201434% 2014-2015 BARR RCT Year 31% BARR 43% Non BARR 2015-2016 (TRIAD 1) 31%

13. Year Number of students Average number of core credits earned* Number of failed core courses Percent of students with at least one failure in a core course Average GPA in core courses Year 1 2011-2012 Control2765.26 (87.7%)18131.9%2.67 Year 1 2011-2012 BARR2725.65 (94.2%)9021.0%2.91 Year 2 2012-20135175.63 (94.5%)19217.2%2.70 Year 3 2013-20145305.56 (92.7%)23118.5%2.76 Anu Sharma, Ph.D, L.P. and Maryann Corsello, Ph.D. BARR Evaluation Team Building Assets Reducing Risks Model Performance Evaluation Report: Hemet High School

14. Hemet Unified Fiscal Overview Hemet High School – 4 year i3 Development Grant $800,000 total – (2010-2014) West Valley High School 4 year i3 Validation Grant $810,000 total (2014-2018) LCAP Contribution Goal 3 - All schools will have a positive, safe, and engaging climate. All schools will have an inclusive culture featuring parent involvement. Barr will continue being implemented for all 9 th graders at “ALL” comprehensive high schools (Hemet, Tahquitz, West Valley, and Hamilton). As a result of BARR suspension rates for 9 th graders will decrease by 1% as compared to baseline data of 5.5% suspension rate at Fall 2014-15 semester, and the percentage of students with one or more F’s in 9 th grade will decrease by 2% as compared to baseline data of 23.8% at the end of Fall 2014-15 semester for 9 th grade.

15. BARR was implemented in 9 th grade at all comprehensive high schools to target incoming 9 th graders and create a safety net of supports as they transition to high school. The number of students failing their classes in 9 th grade will decrease. Budget Expenditures from LCAP - $2,192,217 BARR Budget BARR budget $2.2 million supports $210K from WVHS federal grant $2.0 million LCFF – supplemental/concentration grants At each valley high school 1 Counselor 1 Coordinator with 6 th period 1 Marriage & Family Therapist Stipends for each 9 th grade Teacher and Counselor

16. Return on Investment Proactive vs Reactive Pay for it Now or Pay for it Later

17. Affect of BARR on Our Campus’ Coordinator Perspective – Amber Bohac Counselor Perspective – Jason Sonnier Teacher Perspective – Brent Mikolaycik Risk Review Perspective – Francie Pratte LMFT Principal Perspective - Derek Jindra

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