The @MLTSinHawaii Newsletter
Special Edition
You Are Invited!
9.23.21 3PM HT: Educators from across the state will talk about the issues and opportunities Hawai‘i’s students are facing. From understanding our increasingly polarized society to finding ways to make a positive impact in their communities, attendees will hear how schools are empowering the next generation of CHANGE-makers. Panelists include, Keith T. Hayashi, Interim Superintendent, Hawaii State Department of Education, Dr. Julie Mower, Acting Director, Center for Community Engagement at University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo, Dr. Katina Soares, Principal, Molokaʻi High School, Dr. Alex Teece, Chief Education Officer & School Leader, DreamHouse 'Ewa Beach, Ululani Shiraishi, Kumu ‘Ōlelo Pelekania, Kamehameha Schools Maui. The moderator will be Steve Petranik, Editor, Hawaii Business Magazine.
Ted Dintersmith is thrilled to announce that Kapono Ciotti has joined What School Could Be as its new and very dynamic Executive Director. In this conversation, which is Wednesday, September 8, 2021, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM HST, we'll learn about this remarkable educator, the experiences that shaped his world view, and his plans for taking the What School Could Be initiative forward in ways that support innovative educators all around the globe. Kapono Ciotti is passionate about the science of teaching and learning and has put this practice to work as Director/Head of School at The American International School in Egypt. Kapono is an international trainer and professional development coach, teacher, and a culture and place-based curriculum writer, focusing on culturally appropriate pedagogy. He is also the former CEO at Waialae PCS.
Yesterday, Ann Mahi (retired HIDOE CAS), Robert Landau (Two Roads Education LLC) and @MLTSinHawaii launched a 2021/2022 school leadership course for public, private and charter school VPs. Here is our course description:

Being bold, being brave, being brilliant is the formula for being innovative. This course will be a dynamic blend of group activities and individualized learning, growth and development. You, the course participants will be unified in a Community of Practice (sometimes referred to as a Professional Learning Community), and will establish community norms and be mentored, guided and supported as you engage with course content and process. The ultimate goal for you is to be empowered as you “dare to lead.” This is not a course of workshops nor is it a course focused on compliance or management issues in schools. (Course themes will respect current DOE priorities, which include learning loss, school attendance and social and emotional development.) It is a course grounded in the conviction that wise and empowered school leaders fundamentally support all members of a school community being known, supported and successful. 

Course participants, using the What School Community app, will be forming a professional learning community and executing a transformative campus project supported by a cohort of executive coaches and their school principals/heads. Course participants will be reading Stephanie Malia Krauss's new book, Making It: What Today's Kids Need for Tomorrow's World, as their course text. Please join me in wishing our 1st cohort the best of luck as they leave basecamp and head up the mountain!