Weekly teacher team meetings to review each student's strengths, progress, and obstacles¶

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Evidence · no claims cited

Description¶

A core BARR strategy is regular teacher team meetings: "teacher teams meeting regularly to discuss each student's strengths and progress and identify obstacles to learning." Teams of teachers "need to meet weekly using the BARR process," making student-level review of both strengths and barriers a routine, scheduled part of school practice.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• A designated BARR coordinator to manage, coordinate, and integrate the model.
• Teams of teachers meeting weekly using the BARR process.

Constraints¶

Target Learners¶

• K–12 students

Target Learning Goals¶

• identifying and addressing obstacles to learning
• monitoring student progress

Related Strategies¶

• Community Connect meetings to coordinate out-of-school resources for students
• Reflecting on Student Strengths and Challenges
• Data-Based Decision-Making for Core Instruction
• Formative Assessment to Gauge Student Progress and Guide Instruction
• Run regular teacher-team data meetings around student-level indicator reports to identify struggling students, assign interventions, and coordinate support
• Schedule regular meetings and keep learning spaces openly available to enable dialogic leadership

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Building Assets Reducing Risks (BARR) program evidence summary. (2020). https://evidenceforessa.org/program/building-assets-reducing-risks-barr-attendance/