Kamehameha Schools

Kamehameha Schools Kapālama Campus Honolulu, Hawai‘i Middle School Principal July 1, 2019 ksbe.edu Mission Kamehameha Schools’ mission follows Founder Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop’s desire to create educational opportunities in perpetuity to improve the capability and well-being of people of Hawaiian ancestry. Today, that legacy is being fulfilled by KS on three K-12 campuses and 29 preschools across the state, as well as through summer and community programs, partnerships, and K-12 and college scholarships ($30M) that touch a total of 47,000 students.

Middle School Principal

Kamehameha Schools (KS), Hawai‘i, the largest independent school in the U.S., is seeking a new Poʻo Kumu (Principal) to lead its Kula Waena (Middle School), on the Kapālama campus, located on a spectacular 600-acre hillside campus on the island of O‘ahu. The overarching goal is for Poʻo Kumu to lead students, families, alumni, and staff in achieving the compelling educational mission and vision of Kamehameha Schools: that all haumāna (learners) achieve postsecondary educational success enabling good life and career choices. Kamehameha also envisions that learners will have grounding in both Christian and Hawaiian values and become leaders who contribute to their communities, both locally and globally.

This new leader will foster an exceptional learning environment that promotes a purposeful, positive, and progressive school ethos in which students and staff feel inspired, engaged, safe, and valued. The Principal will also create conditions and build capacity for student-centered teaching and learning through powerful student, staff, and parent learning communities.

School History

As the last royal descendant of the Kamehameha line, Bernice Pauahi Bishop inherited thousands of acres totaling approximately 9% of the total lands in Hawai‘i, making her the largest landholder in the kingdom. After watching the diminishing population of native Hawaiians and the gradual loss of identity and marginalization of her people, in 1883, she bequeathed her entire estate to establish the Kamehameha Schools to educate Hawaiian children. By the terms of her will, the Kamehameha Schools were founded with the mission to create opportunities for people of Hawaiian ancestry

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across the state to acquire knowledge and skills, to restore them through education, and to see them thrive again. Even today, the KS community remains inspired by Pauahi’s example of character, service, faith, compassion, and vision, and she is referred to often.

The original school, the School for Boys, opened in 1887 with nine teachers and 37 students. In 1894, a girls’ school was established. The two schools grew and evolved over time. In 1965, the schools and joined together into a single coeducational entity on the 600-acre Kapālama campus on O‘ahu.

Today, the Kamehameha Schools’ $12 billion endowment funds education for the thousands of its learners and caregivers annually through an organization that functions statewide, utilizing a range of outreach programs, community collaborations, and financial aid opportunities in Hawai‘i and across the continental United States. This educational network includes K-12 campuses on O‘ahu, Hawai‘i, and Maui, and preschool sites throughout the islands. The combined preschool through grade 12 student enrollment is more than 6,900. Kamehameha Schools gives preference to children of Hawaiian ancestry to the extent permitted by law. The schools are accredited by the Hawai‘i Association of Independent Schools and the Western Association of Schools and Colleges and employ roughly 4,000 full and part-time faculty and staff.

Given its vast land holdings, Kamehameha Schools trustees also oversee an organization whose administrative offices manage thousands of acres of agricultural and conservation land, properties, and real estate development in Honolulu, interests in renewable energy, water resources, forest restoration, affordable housing, and other initiatives and partnerships, all in support of the schools’ educational goals and the vision of the Founders.

The Search Group | Carney, Sandoe & Associates 2 [email protected] | www.carneysandoe.com The current Board operates with a vision extending to 2040 comprised of the following goals:

• Deliver exceptional, culture-based education through a network of Native Hawaiian schools. • Contribute to the collective efforts of communities to improve education systems for Native Hawaiian learners, aimed at achieving key Educational Pathway Milestones. • Cultivate a strong Native Hawaiian identity to instill confidence and resiliency in learners and to inform decision making and actions within the KS organization, for the improvement of the well- being of the lāhui (Hawaiian people). • Execute as a high-performing, mission-driven, Native Hawaiian organization with strong leadership, efficient processes and systems, and successful strategic partnerships. • Prudently optimize the strength, breadth, and strategic alignment of KS resources with an organization-wide focus.

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The KS Kapālama campus, located on the island of O‘ahu, is the oldest and largest of the three Kamehameha Schools’ K-12 campuses, containing three divisions, each with its own Poʻo Kumu or Principal. The Kapālama campus currently enrolls 3,192 students, grades K-12, 500 of whom are boarders in grades 7-12. This year, Kamehameha Schools will hire three new Principals for the Kapālama campus – High School, Middle School, and Elementary School – all who have the opportunity to lead their divisions forward in important ways and to contribute to the continued fulfillment of the mission.

The Kapālama leadership team’s desired goal is to amplify promising educational practices and proven culture-based pedagogy in its pursuit of becoming a world-class, lāhui (Hawaiian culture- based learning community) that engages students in a dynamic, culturally rich, and personalized educational journey. To that end, four cornerstones serve as a unifying focus for the tri-campus system:

Student-Centered Learning Refocus learning through student-centered, culturally rich experiences and opportunities inspired by student interests and talents. Each student will be prepared to meet their highest potential through diverse academic, athletic, artistic, and co-curricular programs and by leveraging media, technology, community partners, and the network of native Hawaiian schools. Student-centered learning will include personalized learning, a career and college mindset, and student health, safety, and well- being.

The Search Group | Carney, Sandoe & Associates 4 [email protected] | www.carneysandoe.com Empowered Educators Empower educators to employ nurturing and dynamic teaching methods that motivate learners to attain world-class outcomes. Kamehameha Schools will recruit, develop, and retain outstanding educators and empower them to produce rigorous, relevant, and relationship-rich Hawaiian culture- based education learning environments. Faculty will be expected to distinguish themselves as teachers and to develop professionally with the aim of inspiring higher learning and performance in their students.

Elevated Standards Elevate standards by developing a world-class curriculum and by setting student achievement benchmarks and global standards. Use discipline-specific standards of excellence to provide the highest-quality educational programs designed to prepare every graduate to be ready for postsecondary success and career opportunities. Elevating standards includes a shared commitment to world-class, Hawaiian culture-based education, developing and applying student-growth outcomes, and advancing Christian values, as well as Hawaiian culture consistent with the wishes of the Founders.

Redefined Systems and Learning Environments Redefine systems and learning environments in a way that establishes leadership, faculty, and staff accountability for ambitious student outcomes. Education output and learning outcomes will be the primary focus of tri-campus education leaders and faculty. Accordingly, decision-making authority will be as close to the teacher and learner as possible. Redefining systems and learning environments include refining a governance model, improving student learning, and participating in the network of Native Hawaiian schools.

The Search Group | Carney, Sandoe & Associates 5 [email protected] | www.carneysandoe.com The ultimate goal is for all learners to develop the character, perspectives, and competencies necessary for a thriving life. They will have a strong understanding of their ancestral experiences and knowledge, a love for the land and its people, and a foundation of Hawaiian and Christian values. KS aspires to graduate collaborative, innovative, creative, and self-confident students who are goal oriented and resilient problem solvers and who can become lifelong learners and global citizens.

Ke Kula Waena (Middle School)

The overall mission of Kamehameha Schools is to improve the capability and well-being of Hawaiians through education. To this end, the KS Kapālama Middle School courses of study are designed to provide its 640 students a systematic and developmentally appropriate way to learn, as well as to continue to practice basic skills that will prepare them for the college preparatory curriculum of KS Kapālama’s High School.

The seventh and eighth grades of the Kamehameha Secondary School officially became the KS Kapālama Middle School in July of 2001. Since fall 2012, the Middle School provides instruction in a wall-less learning environment. This environment optimizes Hawaiian cultural knowing and understanding, 21st-century learning skills, and Middle School promising practices.

The Middle School model advocates collaborative group activities to promote cohesiveness and bonding. There is a strong emphasis on teaming of seventh- and eighth-grade students and teachers. The emphasis on an interdisciplinary curriculum and teaming also helps to create a “small school” feeling to assist students in transition from the Elementary to the Middle School.

The Search Group | Carney, Sandoe & Associates 6 [email protected] | www.carneysandoe.com The homeroom advisory program provides students with a “home base” where they meet with their advisors on school business and discuss topics of general student interest like student government and socials. Issues relating to adolescents are also addressed in an inclusive and nurturing environment. Homeroom advisors come to know their students and track their academic progress and adjustment to school and life.

The Middle School was recently renovated, and new buildings include two dormitory buildings, a large classroom building, administrative offices, and a dining room. The classrooms are not traditional classrooms, as the Middle School utilizes “classrooms without walls,” incorporating a new approach to having an open and collaborative learning environment.

Learner Outcomes

The KS Kapālama Middle School educational program uses the Tri-campus learner outcomes, E Ola!, as a foundation (see last page of this document). These outcomes include academic, cultural, and collaborative competencies and skills sets in preparing haumāna (learners) to become local and global servant leaders who are culturally engaged and play significant roles in creating strong ‘ohana (family) and communities throughout ka pae ‘āina o Hawai‘i (the Hawaiian Archipelago) and beyond. Critical and creative thinking, problem solving, and application of skills are valued.

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Involvement in co-curricular activities complements a student’s academic studies by offering experiences and opportunities that may not be available in the classroom. Middle School students are encouraged to participate in clubs including 3D Design, Anime, Hula, Environmental Steam Clean and Water Testing, Fishing, Swimming, Fantasy Sports, Golf, Jazz Band, Math, Movies, Student Leadership, Reading, a Travel Club, and more. In addition, school-wide activities such as Song Contest and Founder’s Day perpetuate unique traditions and encourage school spirit.

KS Kapālama High School offers one of the largest interscholastic athletic programs in the nation, based on the number of sports and teams and the number of student-athlete participants. Students can try out for more than 100 teams representing 35 competitive sports such as football, baseball, basketball, paddling, volleyball, track and field, and swimming. Approximately 1,380 student-athletes from grades 7-12 participate on school teams. Kamehameha is a member of the Interscholastic League of Honolulu (ILH), which is an education-based activities organization with a membership of 22 independent schools and 23 athletic programs.

Students come from around O’ahu and are extremely diverse representing a wide range of ethnicities and races, all connected by their Hawaiian ancestry. The Middle and High Schools also host a residential program for students from the neighbor islands.

Hawaiian language is often used during the day in various settings and students take part in activities that reinforce the Hawaiian Values of Aloha: humility, perseverance, responsibility, generosity, unity, and the seeking of knowledge.

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The campus has an active alumni association. Alumni feel KS is their home and are grateful to have benefited from Pauahiʻs gift to her people. KS is viewed as “an extremely special place that has seen the potential in each student.”

Faculty refer to the “talent and caliber” of their colleagues as one of the chief reasons they teach at KS. Professional development is encouraged and supported, and teachers have instructional latitude, as well as the opportunity to innovate and build curriculum that fulfills student needs. Still, there is a desire for the next Poʻo Kumu to raise expectations, reinforce the teaching of foundational skills, and guide faculty in improving curricular scope and sequence.

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The extraordinary Kapālama hillside campus overlooking Honolulu provides an environment conducive to learning. The spacious campus houses all three divisions — Elementary, Middle, and High School with more than 70 buildings, an Olympic-size swimming pool, tennis courts, and a new athletic complex with a football/soccer field, track, and seating for 3,000. The boarding program includes ten dormitories and related facilities. The main High School gymnasium offers students basketball, volleyball and racquetball courts, a dance studio, and weight training, wrestling, and gymnastics rooms. A fully equipped fitness center also offers students and staff regular aerobic classes.

The campus is also home to the Hawaiian Cultural Center, Heritage Center, and the exquisite Memorial Chapel. The Cultural Center — Ka‘iwakīloumoku — is dedicated to providing opportunities to learn Hawaiian knowledge and to live and practice Hawaiian culture as a vibrant way of life. The large chapel with its native hardwood furnishings and historic cultural reminders provides both reflection and celebration as well as connection to all main Hawaiian Islands.

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Honolulu, on the island of O‘ahu, is the capital of Hawai‘i and the state’s largest city. The city, while the most remote city of its size in the world, is a major hub for international business and one of the world’s top tourist spots, attracting more than seven million visitors a year. The population hovers around 400,000, more than half of whom are Asian-American. Native Hawaiian people comprise about 21% of the state and roughly 8% of Honolulu’s total population, of which about 18% are white and 1.5% are black.

With its major airport, Honolulu offers easy connection to the other Hawaiian Islands as well as the continental U.S. and Asia. As of 2015, Honolulu was ranked high on world livability index, and was also ranked as the second safest city in the U.S. With its tropical climate, beautiful beaches and mountains, cultural opportunities, and access to dining and outdoor recreation, Honolulu is hard to beat as a place to live and work. And the aloha spirit (love, compassion, kindness, and grace) is pervasive.

Tourism has become the city and island’s major industry, bringing in around $10 billion annually. The Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum is the largest of Honolulu’s museums, founded by Princess Pauahi’s husband, Charles Reed Bishop, and named in her honor. It is endowed with the state’s largest collection of natural history specimens and the world’s largest collection of Hawaiiana and Pacific culture artifacts. The city is also home to the Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu Academy of the Arts, and The Contemporary Museum.

Other attractions include the Ala Moana Center — the nation’s largest open-air shopping center — Waikiki Beach, Diamond Head, and the USS Arizona Memorial. The city is also home to a number of colleges and universities, including Chaminade, Hawai‘i Pacific University, and the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa.

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Ke Poʻo Kula (Head of School) for the Kapālama campus is seeking an outstanding Middle School Poʻo Kumu (Principal) with system-wide perspective to add value to the larger KS organization in leading the Middle School to achieve the mission and goals of the overall KS educational enterprise. The K-12 campus leadership team aspires to motivate student-centered, innovative teaching and learning where educators are encouraged and supported to do their best work, in turn inspiring their students’ gifts and aspirations. As a team, Principals and other administrators are expected to work collaboratively across divisions to help achieve the aim of creating a more tightly bound K-12 organization with strong, functional systems, teaching excellence, and shared, core educational principles. Each Poʻo Kumu is charged with encouraging and lifting the community — students, families, and faculty — through education, with the understanding that individual success is inextricably tied to community success. The strong sentiment shared by faculty and administrators that these roles carry the “potential to help a people” is both deeply felt and provident.

KS seeks servant-leaders who can initiate and manage transformational change around instructional paradigms, who are relational, collaborative leaders and listeners; who can embrace, live, and teach both Hawaiian and Christian values to the schools’ diverse population; and who can inspire their community towards a world class educational experience. Leaders at KS recognize that as one of the most visible and connected institutions in the state, they serve in positions that are both essential and highly public. Leading in this context requires experience, confidence, and the management and trust of tenacious stakeholders.

KS Kapālama seeks individuals who embrace this charge and kuleana (responsibility) to provide exceptional educational experiences for haumāna (learners). An ideal candidate is grounded in the values KS seeks to foster in its learners and understands that pilina (relationships) — both internal and external — are critical to the success of their school and the growth of their students and colleagues.

The Middle School Poʻo Kumu oversees a team of two Vice-Principals, a HCBE administrator, curricular/instructional staff, counselors, and other administrative/clerical staff. [email protected] | www.carneysandoe.com The Search Group | Carney, Sandoe & Associates 12 [email protected] | www.carneysandoe.com Essential Responsibilities

Leadership, Strategy, and Planning • Serves as an instructional leader to enhance effective instruction and high achievement. • Supports the implementation of research-based and culture-based instructional design and strategies. • Leads the development and promotion of an effective educational program that best meets the needs of students. • Creates a strong learning environment through effective use of relevant and appropriate instructional and operational strategies that establish a culture of growth and innovation, engages all students, and prioritizes student safety and well-being. • Clearly articulates and communicates the lines of authority and governance. • Constantly reviews the need for and management of change and improvement.

Curriculum, Assessment, and Instruction System • Provides feedback to and communicates with the schools’ professional staff. • Oversees the design and delivery of all pertinent curricula, assessments, programs, and related educational program functions for the campus system, including the piloting, implementation, alignment, and timing and sequence of program innovation and change. • Collaborates and communicates with K-12 campus leaders to ensure curricular alignment, progress, and renewal. • Follows a timetable of logical and timely development, sequenced so as not to overload teachers with implementation responsibilities. • Ensures the evaluation of assessment plans to include data analyses and use in decision-making at all levels.

Program Delivery and Operational Oversight • Directs and oversees the creation of campus budget proposal to include a review of current and past fiscal expenditures, projections for future expenses aligned with campus goals, educational strategies, and the overarching Kamehameha Schools strategic plan. • Ensures that curriculum documents are consistent in format to promote user-friendliness for classroom teachers. • Develops broad implementation and communication plans for all curricular efforts on the campus with all stakeholders.

Development and Capacity Building • Working with the Assistant Head of School, ensures coherent and focused professional development to improve teacher instructional skills and behaviors as measured by improvement in student learning. • Coordinates all school professional development, ensuring that it is congruent with campus goals and priorities and in alignment with K-12 goals. • Ensures complete and consistent onboarding and training of new faculty, including procedures to cultivate student safety and well-being as a key focus of the campus. • Conducts regular, frequent, and focused formal and informal observations to include but are not limited to classroom visits and walk-throughs. • Promotes the learning of the Hawaiian language, history, culture, and values as integral.

The Search Group | Carney, Sandoe & Associates 13 [email protected] | www.carneysandoe.com Specific to the Middle School Principal position, candidates should be aware of and invigorated by the priorities centered around the current campus plan, Kaleilamakū (see graphic on page 17):

1. Focused support for student safety and well-being. Work towards this priority has not yet been systematic, and the next Principal will partner closely with colleagues and with parents to ensure there are appropriate and multi-tiered systems of academic, emotional, and physical support for students. 2. Inspiring Kumu. Providing and encouraging professional development and support for a talented and experienced faculty as the curricular program evolves and strives to provide students with learning experiences that will support them beyond KS is also be a top priority. From ensuring that Hawaiian Culture Based Education (HCBE) permeates the curriculum to determining scope, sequence, and alignment within and between departments and grade levels, to supporting current initiatives (e.g., expanding Dual Enrollment classes, fostering partnership with higher education institutions, and building a capstone program), there is exciting work to be done. For these priorities and initiatives to move forward and succeed, faculty need to feel invested, supported, and inspired, and understand how the work connects to KS’s mission and vision. 3. Rigorous academic experience. To support student learning and success, the new Principal will carefully and thoughtfully lean in to the exploration of the right learning environment for Middle School students. The Middle School Principal will also partner with the other Principals and School leadership to align K-12 education in order to offer students a cohesive, thoughtful, and intentional educational experience.

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Minimum Qualifications (An equivalent combination of education and experience may substitute for the requirements listed):

• Advanced degree from an accredited college or university. • Minimum of 5 years of PK–12 teaching experience. • Minimum of 5 years of school administration, director, or manager experience. • Hawaiian cultural commitment: Willingness to learn and exhibit a commitment to an improved, high-quality education system for Native Hawaiian learners. Must be able to understand and support the importance of revitalizing and promoting Hawaiian cultural vibrancy in achieving KS’s mission and commitment to Hawaiian cultural vibrancy among its leadership, staff, and learners system-wide. • Appreciation for Native Hawaiian culture and language perpetuation. • Skilled in distributive leadership and creating conditions, competency, and capacity through which students achieve important education outcomes. • Ability to maintain composure, tact, sensitivity, and flexibility during peak periods and crisis intervention situations. High level of integrity to handle the highly confidential information regularly seen and discussed. • Understands the inextricable relationship between culture and education and how that manifests itself in a school setting. • Ability to manage multiple assignments with demanding and competing deadlines under conditions of urgency and pressure. • Highly developed interpersonal and conflict resolution skills. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills. • Data savvy; understands and applies data to inform school improvement and decision making. • Ability to set long and short-term goals. • Good working knowledge of school law, finance, budgeting, and analysis. • Willing and available to work varied hours, including evening events and travel on a regular basis state-wide and to the continental U.S. as required.

Preferred Qualifications

• School Administration Certification or License. • Previous work with diverse learners and communities. • Understanding and experience in age-appropriate school. • Student counseling experience. • Experience in curriculum development and instructional supervision, or equivalent. • Technical skill in basic software applications, including but not limtied to word processing and spreadsheet applications; familiarity and ease in handling student information management systems. • Embracing of the KS mission, strategic plan, and traditions. • Hawaiian language and cultural competence or the interest in them. • Knowledge of and sensitivity to Hawaiian culture and Christian values.

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Interested and qualified candidates should inquire with one of the consultants below and ultimately will need to submit the following documents (as separate PDFs) via email. All inquiries will be kept in strict confidence. Please email:

• A cover letter expressing your interest in and qualifications for this specific position; • A current résumé; • A one-page statement of educational philosophy and leadership practice; and • A list of five professional references with name, phone number, and email address of each (references will not be contacted without the candidate’s permission) to:

Karen Neitzel Search Consultant for Middle School Poʻo Kumu [email protected]

CS&A is also conducting searches for two other Poʻo Kumu positions at KS. The contacts for these opportunities are:

Ben Bolté (Elementary Poʻo Kumu) Senior Consultant [email protected]

Jennifer Wong Christensen (High School Poʻo Kumu) Search Consultant [email protected]