Terry Grobe

Program Director

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Terry Grobe is a program director on JFF's Back on Track team. She works with city and state initiatives directed at improving outcomes for struggling students and out-of-school youth.

Ms. Grobe leads the Postsecondary Success Initiative, a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-supported initiative through which JFF has provided support to national youth-serving networks—YouthBuild USA and The National Youth Employment Coalition—to build Back on Track models within their membership and through this work improve postsecondary completion rates for older youth. She also leads a U.S. Department of Education contract to provide dropout prevention and recovery technical assistance to districts and states that received High School Graduation Initiative grants.

Before Back on Track, Ms. Grobe led JFF’s work with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Multiple Education Pathways Blueprint Initiative, a seven-city venture to grow new education options and raise high school graduation rates in these communities. She was a member of the JFF team that participated in the national College and Career Readiness Policy Institute, a multi-state initiative managed by a range of national partners including Achieve, Inc. The National Governor's Association, The EducationCounsel and JFF.

Before coming to JFF, Terry was staff to the Massachusetts-based Commonwealth Corporation, where she directed Diploma Plus, a national alternative school model and co-convened the multi-sector Youth Transition’s partnership with the Boston Private Industry Council during its first year of operation.

Ms. Grobe has served as senior staff for the Center for Youth and Communities at Brandeis University. She has also been a teacher at and director of alternative high schools, on staff at the internationally recognized Boston Compact, and project manager in the Governor’s Education Office in Massachusetts.

Ms. Grobe holds a B.S. in education from the University of Nebraska and an M.Ed. in secondary school administration from Northeastern University.