Programs
Learning Services
Archer's Learning Services offers a constellation of personalized programs and opportunities to strengthen students’ approach to learning. From structured support for students with diagnosed learning differences to peer tutoring and executive functioning training, Learning Services meets students where they are and empowers them with the skills, tools, and habits of mind to meet their goals.
PowerHour: Peer Tutoring
Archer’s PowerHour Peer Tutoring Program is open to all students for personalized coaching in organizational skills, study strategies, test prep, and homework completion. Trained Upper School peer tutors are partnered with students in grades 6-12, Monday-Thursday after school.
Masterminds: FLX Block Class
This FLX Block program is designed specifically for students in 6th-8th grade to help students gain executive functioning skills needed in Middle School and beyond. Held weekly, each session introduces and offers practice in a new skill or learning tool, including avoiding procrastination, note-taking, summarizing, annotating, and developing organizational systems.
Study With Me: Supervised School Day Study Time
This FLX Block offers Middle School students dedicated study time with a learning specialist in the Library. Learning specialists offer 1:1 or small group academic support and executive functioning coaching.
Write Fever: Archer’s Writing Lab
Write Fever is a fun and interactive space for students to build and practice their writing skills. Offered during FLX Block, interested Middle School students can work through the writing process with an Archer English teacher and review writing challenges across the curriculum. Students also have the opportunity to write creatively, start their own writing project, or review feedback on assignments to incorporate in their future drafts.
Math Café & Math Lab
Math Café is a working hub for Middle School students to receive additional math support while enjoying a mug of hot cocoa or tea. Math Lab is the equivalent for Upper School mathematicians. Offered during FLX Block, Archer Math teachers host sessions to strengthen foundational math skills, practice competencies, and work through current content from class. Students enjoy reveling in math while building confidence and proficiency.
Meet the Team
Danit Kaya
Ms. Kaya is an educational therapist and executive functioning coach who specializes in working with neurodiverse teens. A southern California native, Ms. Kaya has lived and worked around the world advancing health and education programs for over 10 years. She holds a B.A. from the University of Chicago, an M.P.H. from Boston University, a post-master’s credential in Educational Therapy from the University of California, Riverside, and a mindfulness teaching certificate from UCLA. She believes there's nothing more fulfilling than seeing young minds develop skills that will serve them in school and over the course of their lifetime.
Stephanie Wald
Ms. Wald is an educator, learning specialist, and Los Angeles native. She holds a B.S. in Human Development from the University of California, Davis, and a Master of Arts in Educational Therapy from California State University, Northridge. Ms. Wald has been working with teens as an Educational Therapist for over 15 years. She believes in fostering a supportive and nurturing environment where students feel empowered to overcome challenges and thrive academically, emotionally, and socially.
The Archer School for Girls admits students of any race, color, religion, national and ethnic origin, sexual orientation or other legally protected status to all the rights, privileges, programs and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national and ethnic origin, sexual orientation or other legally protected status in its hiring or in the administration of its educational policies and programs, admissions policies, financial aid programs or other school-administered programs.
The Archer School for Girls’ mission is to educate students in an environment specifically designed for girls. As such, the school will consider any candidate for admission who identifies as a girl. Once admitted to Archer, all students in good academic standing who abide by Archer’s code of conduct and who meet requirements for graduation will be eligible to receive an Archer diploma, regardless of any change in sexual identity or other legally protected status.
