A novel educational model is paying dividends in Newberg.
Termed Building Assets, Reducing Risks, or BARR, the program’s implementation more than five years ago is best explained by Holly Miele, the school district’s director of teaching and learning.
“It is basically a strengths-based approach to helping each student by teachers and counselors teaming up to remove as many barriers for individual students as possible in the classroom,” she said in an email…