Streamlining School Workflows at Archbishop Ryan High School with Fillable Document
From Pandemic Response to Everyday Efficiency
From Pandemic Response to Everyday Efficiency
Find out what smart users are doing differently.
During COVID-19 school closures, Archbishop Ryan School faced critical documentation needs in a remote environment:
Teacher-end-of-year and contract renewal documents required precise formatting per pre-approved templates.
Back-to-school parent forms, including health declarations and Chromebook device agreements, needed to be collected securely.
Teacher evaluation rubrics and feedback forms had to be digitized with consistent layout and style.
With manual tools and email attachments, the school faced delays, version inconsistencies, and formatting errors that complicated compliance and record management.
The school’s needs included:
✔ 100% template compliance with existing contractual documents
Forms that are simple enough for teachers, parents, and staff—regardless of tech skill
Seamless integration with their Google Workspace environment
Flexibility to scale and adapt beyond the pandemic
“What stood out immediately was the ability to control the output and formatting to align precisely with our contractually approved templates.”
— Archbishop Ryan Administrator
Zero Emission Faith Groups adopted Fillable Document to solve their data collection and coordination challenges. The results were immediate and impactful.
Adopted in 2020, Fillable Document quickly became a mainstay across campus operations:
🎯 Accurate Contract Templates:
Fillable Document ensured that 100% of teacher end-of-year and contract documents were generated using the school’s approved templates—eliminating the 20% of submissions that previously required manual corrections.
🧾 Improved Parent Form Completion:
Back-to-school forms such as health declarations and Chromebook agreements saw a 98% completion rate after switching to Fillable Document, compared to ~70% with manual forms and email-based submissions.
🧑🏫 Consistent Teacher Evaluations:
Using Fillable Document for evaluation rubrics resulted in standardized, cleanly formatted outputs. Administrative staff reported a 90% reduction in follow-up needed to correct misaligned or incomplete data.
⏱ Faster Document Processing:
The time taken to review and store staff and parent documents dropped by 70%, with most forms now processed in under 48 hours, compared to 5–7 days previously.
Start (2020): Remote teacher contract renewals and end-of-year report forms
Expansion: Back-to-school forms (health, Chromebook policies) for parents
Further Growth: Teacher evaluation rubrics and performance feedback
Deployment was smooth—enabled by intuitive form building, secure sharing, and consistent output formats.
📄 100% Template Accuracy: Teacher contracts now match approved formats perfectly, with no manual corrections needed.
🧾 98% Form Completion Rate: Parent submissions for health and Chromebook forms became faster and more reliable.
✅ Standardized Evaluations: Teacher evaluations are now consistent and auto-formatted into clean Docs and PDFs.
🚀 Fast Adoption: Expanded from a pandemic solution to a core tool used across multiple school workflows.
👍 90%+ User Satisfaction: Staff and parents found the forms easy, accurate, and convenient to use.
"We began using Fillable Docs during the COVID-19 school closures, when teachers needed to complete end-of-year and contractual documents remotely. What stood out immediately was the ability to control the output and formatting to align precisely with our contractually approved templates. The forms were intuitive and easy to complete, making submission simple for everyone involved. Since then, we’ve expanded its use to include back-to-school forms for parents—ranging from health forms to Chromebook agreements. Most recently, we’ve implemented it as part of our teacher evaluation process, where it has streamlined data entry and produced clean, consistent Google Docs and PDFs for our records. Since 2020, Fillable Docs has become one of our most valuable and widely used Add-ons, with new applications continuing to emerge. "
~ Joseph McFadden, Archbishop Ryan School
Joseph McFadden is the Principal and Interim President of Archbishop Ryan High School in Philadelphia, where he has served for over 23 years. A proud alumnus of the school, he began as an English teacher in 2001, advanced to Assistant Principal in 2013, and became Principal in 2015. Since 2021, he has also served as Interim President.
Under his leadership, the school has achieved Middle States accreditation, improved SAT performance, and secured major grants to enhance facilities and STEM programs. Joe is also a Neubauer Fellow and actively serves in various leadership roles within the Philadelphia Catholic education community.
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