Terry Grobe

Terry Grobe

Terry Grobe is a Program Director in the Youth Transition Cluster at Jobs for the Future. She is currently involved in work on city and state initiatives directed at improving outcomes and options for low-income and out-of-school youth.  Currently she is JFF's project lead for work with the USDOL's Multiple Education Pathways Blueprint Initiative. 

Terry has a long history of professional experience in the areas of high school reform, alternative education, and youth systems development.  In the past, Terry worked for the Commonwealth Corporation where she served as Project Director for Diploma Plus, a national alternative school model; she also helped create and manage the Reaching All Youth (RAY) Coalition, a statewide network of alternative schools and youth programs. Terry co-convened the multi-sector Youth Transition's partnership (with the Boston Private Industry Council) during its first year of operation. Now four years out, YT is actively focused on improving high school completion outcomes for young people who are not on track for graduation.

In her earlier work history Terry served as senior staff for the Center for Youth and Communities at Brandeis University.  She has been a teacher and director of alternative high schools, staff to the internationally recognized Boston Compact, and project manager in the Governor's Education Office in Massachusetts.

Terry has authored papers for both the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Labor and worked on national evaluations of the Summer Youth Employment Program and Community Service (Corporation for National Service).  She served as principle investigator for the national evaluation of KAPOW (Kids and the Power of Work).

Ms. Grobe holds a B.S. in Education from the University of Nebraska and an M.Ed. in Secondary School Administration from Northeastern University.