Students who don’t conform to narrow gender norms and LGBTQ students deserve to have their identities affirmed by educators across grades, subject areas, and schools. Yet, headline after headline reveals new attacks that specifically target LGBTQ youth across the country. These attacks represent real threats to the democratic potential of schools and to the ideas of pluralistic democracy. People who work within and outside of public schools must be vigilant in challenging these harmful trends. This talk will address some steps that can be taken to create welcoming, affirming schools for LGBTQ youth.

Students who don’t conform to narrow gender norms and LGBTQ students deserve to have their identities affirmed by educators across grades, subject areas, and schools. This workshop will engage participants in thinking about how we can improve curriculum, pedagogy, and policies to better support the experience of LGBTQ students in our schools. By naming and challenging systems of harm, they will explore how educators can work together to create teaching and learning spaces where LGBTQ students have their identities affirmed.

Ungrading is a growing movement to shift the focus from grades to feedback in the classroom. We know from decades of research and hundreds of studies that grades demotivate, stress, and harm students. Instead, we can create spaces that promote human flourishing and purpose-finding by breaking barriers to learning.

What role should tests play in progressive pedagogy? It depends on what one means by “test.” In this public talk Dr. Andrew Ho of the Harvard Graduate School of Education explores the relationship between quantitative assessment and progressive education, highlighting the fragile place of quantitative assessments in progressive classrooms to measure and inspire learning. When should a “three-way conference,” or any other classroom assessment, result in quantitative scores? How do children, teachers, and parents interpret such scores? Can scores be useful for progressive aims? Or are scores too powerful, leading to triage, discouragement, and competition?

Together with progressive educators at Hanahau`oli School, you are invited to engage in a workshop to better understand how young children learn language, build/strengthen your child-centered mindset, and discover strategies for engaging with your child at their current stage of language-learning. Examine some of the worries or frustrations that may come with supporting young language-learners and gain insights on how children’s passions, interests, and curiosities can become a vehicle for learning.

In this workshop learn how to apply Gorski’s equity literacy framework to increase academic excellence through the use of authentic literature. The workshop focuses on the application of equity literacy to selecting PK-12 literature, and provides sample trade books, organized into seven strands and areas for supporting curriculum development: race, social class, culture, global perspectives, power and privilege, gender/sexuality, and intersectionality.

Captains & Poets programming offers the opportunity to illuminate for students that they are whole, resourceful beings who have what they need within them to navigate their personal journeys and the world around them in a way that enables them to thrive. The program also highlights how being their best self not only serves them, but also serves others. Explore the surrounding context for this timely curriculum, learn to connect with our own Captain and Poet, and walk away with practical ideas for creating greater connection and belonging in your classroom.

How might school leaders and educators create space in the school day that “honors and nurtures students’ natural curiosity and innate desire to learn, fostering internal motivation and the discovery of passion and purpose?” In this workshop, Melissa Speetjens, Principal of Waimea Canyon Middle School and Serena Cox, former Deeper Learning Instructional Coach at Waimea Canyon Middle School, will share about their work with a 20% Time framework.

Research shows that integrating music into a child’s life facilitates learning in other subjects at school and enhances skills that children inevitably use in diverse areas of their lives. At this two hour on-line experience, learn from Hanahau‘oli School music teacher, Leah Abbe Bloem, about why music education is important and how families can integrate music education and play into their lives at home. Then hear from ʻukulele virtuoso, Jake Shimabukuro, about strategies to get started with making music at home with your kids.

De-escalating classroom conflict starts by connecting with students, choosing a process, and then channeling their energies into more productive spaces. This session will break down those three steps--Connect, Choose, Channel--into specific strategies. Since every student, parent, and situation are unique, Dr. Fowler will give you a variety of options to choose from. The goal is to empower you to be in control of academic conflict and guide it toward a productive resolution.

Math picture books can be fun and effective tools to introduce and explore mathematics concepts without being overly technical. Journey with us through the characters' eyes to investigate and solve measurement questions. We will extend our exploration through related activities and share how this use of math picture books can be transferred to your classroom.

Creating a liberatory, human-centered classroom goes beyond a simple lesson plan or one-and-done workshop session. Instead we must radically reimagine what a classroom is, questioning our assumptions about schooling, students, and educators. In this workshop, participants will learn about progressive systems in education, including research, inquiry questions, and interactive activities to push for educative systemic change.

The Hanahau'oli Professional Development Center teamed up with the Pacific Alliance against COVID-19 (PAAC), under an award from the National Institutes of Health, Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics Underserved Populations (RADxUP) to offer this free, two-day Panel-Town Hall event, focused on providing strategies for safer school reopening and addressing your questions.

Remote island communities need agricultural science education to address important regional issues of food security and sustainability. View this workshop to learn how to utilize a collection of teaching resources produced by the Food Experiences for Agricultural Science Teaching (FEAST) Project.

Hear from a panel of diverse thought leaders who will explore the relevance of progressive philosophy in present times. As we collectively make our way through the COVID-19 pandemic recovery period, we want to wonder together, how might a progressive philosophy support individuals, schools, and society at-large in creating lasting positive change.

This Hands-on workshop is ideal for children grades K to 8 and educators who work with elementary and middle school age children. The workshop focuses on connecting keiki, families, and educators to place-based resources that bridge the process of building, creating, and imagining Hawaiʻi through their own experiences. Participants will learn about some of Hawaiʻi’s most amazing and endemic forest species by imagining and creating their very own rainforest diorama, then explore a free digital application, Piskel to bring their rainforest to life.

Learn how to incorporate play and storytelling methods in your teaching and life by engaging with master storyteller, Dr. Kevin Cordi. This series of five two-hour workshops explores ways to live inside the books you read, how to share your story through play, finding the story within you, rethinking narrative’s place in your work, school, or community, and finding YOUR story.

In this public talk, Dr. Carl Ackerman shares his plan to provide students in the public sector with an “equal playing field,” so that they can succeed in their public school educational pursuits and go on to college, as document in his book, A Success Story in Public Education: The Clarence T. C. Ching PUEO Program at Punahou and Its Partnership-Marriage Methodology.

This workshop engages participants in thinking about how we can improve curriculum, pedagogy, and policies to better support the experience of LGBTQ students in our schools. They will be introduced to readings, participate in discussions, and review a number of powerful resources designed to support educators and school leaders on their journey to create just schools for LGBTQ youth.

This workshop provides an introduction to the Social Justice Framework as well as a deeper dive into each of the four interlocking domains—identity, diversity, justice and action. With textual and curricular examples of each standard, participants will gain an understanding of how to integrate elements of both prejudice reduction and collective action into their work as social justice educators.

Schools become sources of resilience when informed educators prepare students and provide outreach to families and the community by teaching, modeling and promoting mask wearing, cleaning, social distancing, and studying causes of clusters and spikes in cases. School-community health partnerships can further empower schools with targeted education, research, data, and transparent communication. Schools that partner with parents, community health centers, and researchers support the collection of localized, community level data needed to inform actions and policies to reduce COVID-19 transmission. Learn about the potential of school-community health partnerships, what we need to do, why we need to work together, and how you can participate with this free public talk.

In this 4-part, interactive series, explore interdisciplinary lessons that examine Hawaiian historical timelines and science phenomena associated with COVID-19. These lessons will include hands-on activities, simulations, models, metrics, interactive discussions, historical resources, Hawaiian language newspaper articles, and up-to-date information on COVID-19 that you can use in schools and communities.

Workshop 1: The Hawaiian Kingdom, Newspapers, and Public Health Past, Present, and Future

Workshop 2: We Are All In This Together -- He Wa`a He Moku, He Moku He Wa`a (The Canoe Is An Island And The Island Is A Canoe)

Workshop 3: The Future Is Found In The Past -- I Ka Wā Ma Mua, Ka Wā Ma Hope (In Looking To The Past, We Can Inform The Present And Future)

Workshop 4: From Knowledge to Practice: Teaching for Resilience in the Face of Change

As we plan for the possibility of distance, online, and hybrid approaches to teaching when schools reopen, we can prepare to support all learners, including students with disabilities and ELLs in these novel and varied formats. This series of three online workshops addresses various ways to support students with disabilities and ELLs in alignment with The Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework.

Workshop I: Digital Tools to Support Students with Disabilities and English Language Learners

Workshop II: Strategies for Multi-lingual learners: Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT) Online

Workshop III: Home-School Connections: Empowering Parents to Support Students with Disabilities in Distance/Online Learning

With rising rates of stress, anxiety, depression, and suicide, how might parents support their children to become self-reliant, responsible, and empowered? Learn about the guiding principals of Awakening Wisdom, a Hawaii-birthed program which aims to develop school cultures that cultivate social-emotional wellbeing in students. The program has influenced thousands of students to become responsible, compassionate, and empowered human beings who contribute to their communities. At this talk, parents will learn how to apply concepts from Awakening Wisdom in their own homes.

When the great 1918-1920 flu pandemic (sometimes known as the Spanish Flu) hit Hawai‘i, then a U.S. territory, there was significant loss of life and disruption to our economy, educational system, and medical institutions. It was also a time when our community developed new tools of resilience and adaptation. This program discusses the impact of the 1918 pandemic on Hawai‘i and how we might approach the current challenges of Covid-19 with lessons learned from a century ago.

The current pandemic has placed enormous stress on families as parents try to support their children’s academic learning and their social-emotional needs. The loss of regular contact with peers, an essential need for children, weighs heavily on them. Parents, not trained to be teachers, struggle with how to facilitate their child’s distance learning. Linda Inlay will share principles of Awakening Wisdom, a school culture approach for student social-emotional wellbeing that has influenced thousands of students to become responsible, compassionate, and empowered human beings who contribute to their communities.

Learn about p4c Hawai‘i, an innovative approach to education that transforms the schooling experience by engaging people in the activity of philosophy. Practiced in a variety of public settings beyond the classroom, p4c Hawai‘i engages participants in the activity of philosophy by creating intellectually safe communities of inquiry. Through the exploration of “big questions,” the cultivation of wonder and wisdom become pathways to new self-understandings and a better future society. Draw inspiration from speakerswho have used p4c Hawai‘i in a number of unique settings to accomplish these goals, and engage in dialogue to explore how philosophy can become a viable tool for citizens, both young and old, to make meaning of our rapidly changing world.

Join us for a series of 3 workshops offered by the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa College of Education’s learning design and technology expert, Dr. Michael Menchaca. Workshops focus on maximizing your inherent strengths as a passionate educator, best practices for online instruction, an introduction to an array of valuable tools and strategies, and a deep dive into maximizing Google tools for distance learning.

Workshop I: Best Practices for Crisis Online Instruction

Workshop II: Resources and Tools for Online Instruction

Workshop III: Working with Google Apps and Google Classroom

Learn how educators are working to promote peace in Israel with Lee Gordon, co-founder of Hand in Hand: Center for Jewish-Arab Education in Israel. This groundbreaking non-profit has grown from serving 50 students at its inception in 1998, into a network of integrated public schools across the country, serving over 1900 Arab and Jewish children in environments that celebrate partnership and coexistence. Learn more about the ethnic, religious, and national conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, Jews, and Arabs; examine Hand in Hand's model for integrated, multicultural peace education; and be inspired by the work of a social justice educator and change maker.