The Klarich Center for Academic Excellence is charged with assisting the academic program in delivering a rigorous academic education to all students.  To accomplish this, the Center offers different programs to improve student engagement and commitment. The Center provides enrichment and instructional support for students across all subjects and competencies to ensure that all students succeed in an academically rigorous high school setting program. 
 

Reading Enrichment:

Students will initiate a writer’s workshop model based on the Common Core State Standards for Grades 9-11. Students will be grouped based on their common needs/assignments, and the Director will develop writing workshop activities to help the students complete their assignments and achieve mastery of standards in writing. In collaboration with teachers in the Humanities Department, the Director of the Klarich Center may prioritize effective writing skills in Argumentative, Persuasive, and Descriptive. In addition, if the Director of the Klarich Center sees low to average and basic skills in annotating the text, upper levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy for analysis in fiction and nonfiction, the employee will develop a reader’s strategy workshop twice a week. The following schedule is flexible due to the needs of the student.
 

Marie Gallagher Citizen Scholars Program

Named for much beloved Little Flower Principal, Marie Gallagher, who is credited with charting a course for Little Flower in the 1990s that set a standard for excellence and sustainability. The students in this program are mentors to a select number of freshmen. These students are mentors and help their mentees with organizational skills, time management, navigating course loads, and healthy social and emotional problem solving. The students selected as mentors share with their mentees the ideals and values of Marie Gallagher: everyone deserves help and a second chance.