High School Supports
Onward 4 Excellence provides targeted support in curriculum and instruction, instructional leadership, and data assessment.
Content & Specialty Collaborations
These hour-long virtual meetings are optional opportunities for educators, academic leaders, and counselors from different schools to get together, check in, and discuss teaching, learning, and community. Collaborations are also hosted based on needs of community, such as HyFlex instruction, AP testing updates, and supporting small groups of students with high needs.
What People Are Saying
“It means a lot to have this space to connect with fellow educators.”
“Thank you for facilitating these meetings. I learn so much!”
“Extremely helpful hearing the input from the presenters! Really got a lot of helpful information for today's collaboration.”
Webinars and Workshops
Content and Specialty Webinars / Workshops in Partnership with Vendors. These webinars and workshops offer professional development for content specific instructional practice, as well as train-the-trainer opportunities on relevant topics like social-emotional learning and distance learning for counselors, academic leaders, and administrators in schools.
What People Are Saying
“Thank you for the workshop, it helped me reflect on the whole student vs. just academic student.”
Thank you for giving us an opportunity to explore and acquire new techniques for these unprecedented times.”
“Thank you and really appreciate all the learning opportunities.”
New(er) Teacher and New(er) Counselor Workshop Series
These are interactive workshops for teachers and counselors new to teaching, new to the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, or experienced teachers of all levels who want to collaborate and engage with new ideas, further develop their instructional or counseling practices, and connect with other educators from different schools in their field.
New(er) Counselor Workshop Series launches in Fall 2021!
What People Are Saying
“I enjoyed the breakouts with my fellow educators. There is a level of automatic kinship with others in similar roles as myself!”
“Thank you! I appreciate all your work and amazing resources. I am grateful for your flexibility and understanding too. It's hard to participate after a day of teaching, but y'all make it fun and worthwhile.”
Growth Assessment Tool Leader Workshops and Collaborations
These workshops and collaborations offer opportunities for leaders to look at academic data in a meaningful way and share their approaches to data analysis and actioning planning at their school site. In addition to sharing resources and current best practices, these sessions offer spaces for leaders and teachers to connect with others to share best practices and ideas for supporting student learning.
What People Are Saying
“Great session! Thanks for being organized and for bringing in presenters to show examples of data utilization. Very helpful.”
“Thank you so much for having us share with the school leaders at your workshop! We were really glad to hear that our presentation was beneficial for the schools who joined!”
“I am really happy that my principal recommended me for this.”
Site Support Visits
The Onward 4 Excellence team offers to meet with school academic leadership teams (virtually or in-person) to engage as thought partners on the needs, questions, and development of the culture of learning unique to each school site. Some discussion topics include: supporting student learning in distance and in-person modes, ideas for authentic assessments, increasing capacity of department and academic leaders, social-emotional learning (SEL) supports for faculty, staff, and students, approaches to differentiation, and focus skills for intervention by utilizing academic data.
What People Are Saying
“Thank you so much for meeting with us last week and for taking the time to reach out today. Right now, we are working on a plan to offer all teachers one on one meetings as we had all talked about last week. We are really excited about this and think it'll go a long way with everyone.”
“Thank you for the great support you have provided!”
“Thanks for meeting with us and for the written summary. We were energized after meeting with you.”