Superintendent’s EDUCATION UPDATE mAY 2014

TECHNOLOGY , students explore volcano in virtual field trip Keaau Elementary students stand at the DOE is using technology to innovate and Opportunities edge of Kilauea Volcano and lead a chant in expand learning opportunities at home and TEaCHERS honor of the goddess Pele as they prepare to abroad. Children from Nanakuli El, Hale Kula hike down the Big Island crater. Across the El and University Lab School also experienced The Hawaii Emerging Leaders Pacific Ocean, students from Peterson the sights and sounds of Kilauea, thanks to Program increases teacher Schools in Mexico City rise in their Keaau students and staff who wore impact by leading a team of classroom, reciting the same Hawaiian words Glass to broadcast their excursion online. fellow teachers to increase as they watch steam billow from the crater’s The DOE’s digital curriculum program, student achievement via data- vents through a live video feed. Access Learning , has allowed eight pilot driven instruction and adult Dozens of public school students took part schools to explore exciting lessons that go leadership actions. Apply by in a virtual field trip to Hawaii Volcanoes beyond textbooks and classroom walls via May 15. Details: https://intranet National Park, the latest example of how the devices and teacher training. .hawaiipublicschools.org/offices /leadership Six Strategies

ONLINE FOCuS: COMMON CORE bit.ly/DOEvolcano State Teacher Fellowships connect teacher and community voice to the implementation of NOTaBLE u.S. DEpaRTMENT OF EDuCaTiON the hawaii Common Core. Register by May 15. Details on TOP PRINCIPALS: the intranet: https://intranet. Duwayne Abe, Salt Lake Duncan praises Hawaii’s hawaiipublicschools.org El, was named 2014 /sixstrategies/commoncore National Distinguished leadership in visit to 50th state Principal by the Hawaii Hawaii’s public schools can High where he participated in a Elementary and Middle be a model for the nation, DOE and teachers’ union School Administrators according to U.S. Secretary of committee meeting followed by Assn. Also, Edward Education Arne Duncan, who a tour of the school. Oshiro, Ewa Makai visited Oahu on March 31. Waipahu High Principal Middle, won the Masayuki Duncan, Gov. Neil Abercrombie Keith Hayashi, since being Tokioka Excellence in and Supt. Kathryn Matayoshi appointed in 2009, has led an School Leadership Award spoke with media in reflecting academic turnaround there. and $25,000. on the progress made via the Reading proficiency among SENIOR SCHOLARS: Race to the Top federal 10th graders rose to 69 percent Semifinalists for the U.S. education reform grant. (See in 2013 from 58 percent in On our Presidential Scholars bit.ly/RTTTY3HI.) 2011, while math proficiency Award: Nicole Fernandez, Duncan began the day at Ka jumped to 47 percent from 26 MāLaMa HONua Radford High; Trent Hori, Waihona o ka Naauao, a public percent. College-going rate Maui High; and Viola charter school in Nanakuli, increased to 58 percent from 49 information about educational Mocz, Mililani High. where he learned how to pound percent during the same period. opportunities with the Mocz also placed 1st, taro (paiai) and participated in a “We are proud to share the worldwide voyage of the physical sciences, in the discussion about culture-based passion of what we do here at hōkulē‘a. Visit National Junior Science & education with stakeholders. Waipahu with Secretary hawaiiPublicSchools.org. Humanities Symposium. Duncan then visited Waipahu Duncan,” Hayashi said. Photo: ʻoiwi tV HAwAII STATE DEPARTmENT Of EDuCATION hawaiiPublicSchools.org /hiDepartmentofEducation @hiDoE808 EDuCATION uPDATE › mAY 2014 › BACK PAGE

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Culture. Leadership. literacy. This worldwide voyage Learning > Student advantage of Navigation. Ocean. establishes a global classroom Learning) and the DOE Google+ to share Sustainability. Voyaging. for these lessons. Intranet (under Office of the stories, multimedia and These are the themes of While the Polynesian Superintendent). The Intranet more. There will be at least Mālama Honua , the three-year Voyaging Society’s master will include workspaces, as one Google Hangout a month worldwide voyage of Hōkulē‘a navigators will guide Mālama needed, for teachers to with the crews. Go to and Hikianalia, which will sail Honua, education is the core of collaborate securely on projects. plus.google.com, and search for 49,000 nautical miles, and visit its mission. The Department of Additionally, the newly Mālama Honua: Worldwide 28 countries and 85 ports of call. Education and other education launched Mālama Honua Voyage. The vessels begin this audacious partners have a significant role in Learning Center offers resources If you have questions about journey on May 17 (weather ensuring that students are including curricula to kick off how to get your classroom or permitting), leaving Honolulu for engaged in this journey. the educational effort — visit school involved in Mālama Hilo, then for Tahiti. The DOE has created hokulea.com. The Learning Honua, please contact project Voyaging has for millennia resources for educators to learn Center website also offers a leaders Manuwai Peters and embodied what we now call 21st more about and connect to simple registration area to share Marlene Zeug via Lotus Notes. century skills: Innovation, Mālama Honua. They can be your own related lessons and collaboration, problem solving, accessed on the DOE’s public projects. and global and environmental website (under Teaching & Mālama Honua is also taking

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