Aloha HIDOE Team!
I hope that you had a restful long weekend. Over the weekend, I attended the 28th Annual After-School All-Stars Dinner and Program to benefit our 2,000 middle school youth who participate in an array of positive and supportive after-school activities. If you are not aware of the All-Stars Program that we run for middle school students or are interested in volunteering, reach out to Marlene Zeug or Camille Masutomi. Our students performed and assisted in hosting the event for an audience of business, industry and government leaders. What a great program! (For a little down time, I also enjoyed the Slack Key Festival on Sunday!)
Pukalani Elementary School
I am a little slow getting my brief to you because I spent Monday morning in Maui visiting Pukalani Elementary School led by Principal Dimino. Pukalani is a Leader in Me School, a school design model based on Stephen Covey's Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. The model is structured around the belief that all students can be leaders, and embeds leadership concepts, skills and applications within instructional models and classroom design. Beginning this school year, Pukalani's teachers will also begin the work of overlaying a project-based instructional approach, which aligns with their student empowerment model. Keep up the great work, Pukalani El!
Program Reviews
Beginning this week, the HIDOE state level staff will begin to organize a program review process for the areas of Special Education Services and English Language Learner Services. This deep-dive into our program design, data and practices will culminate in the spring of 2018 with a set of program improvement recommendations. We are just beginning the program review design process, and within a few weeks I will impanel two Steering Committees to oversee this work and form sub-committees to include site-based leaders and teachers. I look forward to conducting this important work together and learning from this process. Our goal is to ensure that we have a comprehensive program of supports for our Special Education and ELL learners.
Have a wonderful week!
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