The @MLTSinHawaii Newsletter
February 2020
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Four Years Working Together...
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Ted Dintersmith and I started working together in the Winter/Spring of 2016, as he completed a 50-state tour that ended on our shores. Since
Most Likely to Succeed
first screened in Hawaiʻi, and Ted wrote his book,
What School Could Be,
much has happened. You are getting this newsletter because at some point in the past four years, our paths crossed. If you don't want another newsletter in your inbox, please unsubscribe, but if you want to know more about our work, read on!
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Ryan @Hawaiʻi Ozawa and I designed and built
a podcast that gives voice to Hawaii's amazing, imaginative, innovative and collaborative educators and education leaders. It's called What School Could Be in Hawaiʻi. Find it at
MLTSinHawaii.com
, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify and Google Play Podcasts. If you enjoy the episodes, please give us a rating in your fav podcast store. We are currently at 8000 downloads in 24 countries!
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New Episodes Every Monday
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We all share ownership of this podcast, whose vision is centered on the idea that innovation comes from educators and education leaders. Episodes support the idea that small steps lead to big change, and things happen slowly until they happen fast. Here you see some of Hawaii's brightest education minds: Shawna Gunnarson, Zoe Ingerson, Lori Kwee and Chris Stapleton. (And MAHALO to Hālau ‘Īnana for providing recording space.) Find these episodes and others at MLTSinHawaii.com or your favorite podcast store.
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Coming soon from Searider Digital Productions, a new documentary film titled
The Innovation Playlist
. This short film tells the story of educators and education leaders at five of Hawaii's public schools on three islands implementing micro innovations that are having an outsize impact on student engagement. To learn more, go to
InnovationPlaylist.org
. Pictured here is the Searider Digital Productions team, with Ted Dintersmith, on Molokaʻi, where we filmed an Innovation Playlist professional development session.
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Tweet, and Retweet, Please
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Twitter is one of the best ways to follow what's happening in our Hawaiʻi public, private and charter schools. Follow us at @MLTSinHawaii and @JoshReppun. You may also enjoy tweets from @MSChung808 (our State Teacher of the Year, Cecilia Chung) and @HIDOE808_DrK (our Hawaiʻi public schools superintendent). For the full flavor, surf tweets at #808Educate, #WhatSchoolCouldBe and #SOTF2019. On Facebook, check out the Most Likely to Succeed in Hawaiʻi page.
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Leading Schools of the Future
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In 2017 @MLTSinHawaii partnered with Kupu Hou Academy, the Kauaʻi Education Leadership Association (KELA), the Hawaiʻi Society for Technology in Education (HSTE) and others for the Hawaiʻi Eduction Leadership Summit, held at PBS Hawaiʻi. It was an amazing day; we mapped education assets and built sail plans for the future. HELS has now become a companion gathering to HAIS's Schools of the Future conference, called Leading Schools of the Future (LSOTF). We look forward to building more partnerships.
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January 2019, we collaborated with Kupu Hou Academy, Two Roads Education LLC, Hawaiʻi Technology Academy (HTA), and principals at Molokaʻi HS, Molokaʻi MS, Kilohana EL, Maunaloa EL and Kaunakakai EL to bring InnovationPlaylist.org to the Canoe Complex (led by CAS Lindsay Ball). A year later, on January 7th, 2020 we returned to Molokai for the unveiling of "Profiles of a Molokai Graduate." It was a spectacular day of teacher and community collaboration.
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Designing 21st Century Assessments
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On January 27th, 2018 @MLTSinHawaii, Kupu Hou Academy, KSBE's Keala'ula Institute for Innovation, Hawaiʻi Technology Academy, Waiʻalae Charter School, Ted Dintersmith, Tony Wagner and Two Roads Education LLC came together to deep dive into "21st century assessments." We built sail plans for the future with 10 public, private and charter teams.
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On January 25th, 2018 the @MLTSinHawaii Team designed an event that brought together 100 public, private, charter school and community leaders to discuss setting a course towards a bright future. At the Bishop Museum, under several
waʻa
(canoe) suspended from the ceiling, we heard from Ted Dintersmith, Tony Wagner, Nainoa Thompson and Miki Tomita, Superintendent Kishimoto, Sione Thompson, Phil Bossert and Mike Rockers in a gathering called
ʻAha Kūkā: A Gathering Around Skills, Habits and Dispositions
. It was awesome! Superintendent Kishimoto told the assembled, "be bold, be brave," a mantra that is helping Hawaiʻi find its education North Star.
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In February, 2019 Ted visited one of our innovative public middle schools on the island of Kauaʻi. Waimea Canyon Middle School, under the leadership of Principal, Melissa Speetjens, is implementing "20% Time," a program that carves out 20% of every school day for students to explore the big, complex issues of our day. Kids self-select into areas of interest and partner with faculty trained in inquiry learning. @MLTSinHawaii and Searider Digital spent a day filming on this campus. Stay tuned for our film,
The Innovation Playlist
, coming soon.
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We Love BoxJelly Coworking!
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WAY, WAY back in 2016 and 2017 @MLTSInHawaii collaborated with Rechung Fujihira, the awesome founder of Oʻahu co-working space, BoxJelly, to do a series of
Most Likely to Succeed
screenings for business professionals. For an hour after each screening we led viewers through the creation of a "21st century transcript." At one screening design thinking teams from Damien Memorial High School and Waipahu High School led the post film journey though empathy, definition, ideation, prototyping and testing. Attending business professionals were blown away by the skills, habits and dispositions of these young learners.
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I am blessed to collaborate with so many amazing educators in Hawai'i. Mahalo friends, for all the conversations and events that have revealed so much about #whatschoolcouldbe. 2020 is just the beginning! ~ Josh
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