Terri Inefuku2024-05-02T16:44:57-10:00May 2, 2024|Categories: News|Tags: Career and Technical Education, CTE, differential, hard-to-staff, kaiapuni, shortage differential, special education|
The Hawaiʻi State Department of Education Friday announced it will implement one-time shortage differentials for career technical education (CTE) teachers working in HIDOE schools during the 2023–2024 school year.
Terri Inefuku2022-03-02T17:31:56-10:00March 2, 2022|Categories: News|Tags: Aha Kauleo, bill, Board of Education, BOE, Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, constitution, Hawaiian language immersion, House of Representatives, kaiapuni, Laverne Moore, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Osa Tui Jr|
The state House Committee on Judicial and Hawaiian Affairs advanced a bill last week that would require one of the at-large members of the Board of Education be an expert on Hawaiian language immersion.
Terri Inefuku2022-02-18T09:49:43-10:00February 18, 2022|Categories: News|Tags: coronavirus, COVID-19, distance learning, Hawaiian language immersion, kaiapuni, virtual school|
BOE Chair Catherine Payne raised several concerns “that we’re trying to rush to get this going but we are not really fully prepared with the curriculum in place and the teachers trained and the real understanding of how we’ll have some hybrid opportunities in addition to the full-on digital learning for some students.”
kkerr@hsta.org2021-09-10T17:14:58-10:00September 10, 2021|Categories: COVID-19, News|Tags: buses, Cedric Gates, distance learning, Hawaiian language immersion, Jeanne Kapela, Justin Woodson, kaiapuni, Keith Hayashi, Osa Tui, school buses, sites, testing|
The Hawaii State Department of Education’s plans for free COVID-19 testing at public schools statewide are eagerly awaited by students, staff, and parents, but at a legislative hearing this week, school officials did not answer key questions about when the program will be available at all schools.
Evan Kumasaki2022-06-02T01:33:57-10:00November 1, 2019|Categories: News|Tags: Corey Rosenlee, Gail Leilani Kamalani, Hawaiian immersion, Hawaiian language, Hawaiian language immersion, Hope McKeen, immersion, Iolani Kuoha, kaiapuni, Kaui Spitalsky, Leimomi Kaaihili Leong|
Being a Hawaiian immersion teacher is "more than just a job, it is a mission," say those devoted to the field, which requires huge amounts of extra work creating and implementing curricula in the Hawaiian language that's not readily available.
