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The @MLTSinHawaii Newsletter
Most Likely to Succeed / What School Could Be
Christmas 2021 🎄
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The What School Could Be in Hawaiʻi Podcast
Season Three Continues Towards 1000 Points of Light
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Episode #9, Julie Mower, UH Hilo: In her dissertation Dr. Mower wrote, “As a young adult, I traveled to Ecuador on a study abroad program while finishing my Bachelors degree in English. Like reading in action form, traveling enabled me to see these different ways of living and seeing the world that previously I had only read about. I fell in love with learning about different cultures and returned to the United States wanting to somehow combine my passions for language and culture.” Julie is the Acting Director of the Center for Community Engagement and Director of the English Language Institute at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo. | |  |
Coming Soon: Episode #10, KS Hawaiʻi Campus: Darciann Baker, known as Kumu Leinani, has stepped out of the classroom to become the campus K-12 Hawaiian language coach at KS Hawaiʻi Island. Her two main responsibilities in this current position are to help transform the Hawaiian language program to best prepare students to be successful with their Hawaiian language proficiency graduation requirement. This includes rewriting the Kamehameha Schools, Hawaii Island campus K-12 curriculum, coaching teachers through new research-based strategies, and modeling innovative teaching and co-teaching with proficiency as the focus. Ma Ka Hana Ka ‘Ike - "in doing is learning." | | |
MLTS Featured Writers, Erin and Jonathon Medeiros | |
Rewriting What is Possible - @MLTSinHawaii | Rewriting What is Possible, by Erin Medeiros: "The classroom remains the most radical space of possibility." - bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress. After a semester on leave, I returned last week to my classroom to meet with my team. The 3 of us teach out of a 2-room structure whose east end looks directly out on ... | | | |
An essay I read recently talked about the importance of drama in learning, and its usefulness to us as teachers. The author made sure to delineate between "drama" and "theater," explaining that drama is participant centered and theater is audience centered. The former is for the people acting, working through the material. | | | |
MLTS Featured Writer, Aaron Schorn | |
Creating A Collective In Your Classroom: Soulquarians as a Case Study | "In late 90s, as the world transitioned into a new millennium, a collective of musicians known as the Soulquarians was formed. [...] What made the Soulquarians so special was their ability to synthesize different sounds, genres, and themes together in a way that no one had before. | | | |
A 2022 Virtual Conference: iTeach808 | |
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The 7th Anniversary of Most Likely To Succeed
A Global Virtual Screening
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Most Likely To Succeed is a thought-provoking documentary feature film that reveals the growing shortcomings of conventional education methods in today’s innovative world. The film explores compelling new approaches that aim to revolutionize education as we know it, inspiring school communities to reimagine what students and teachers are capable of doing. Over SEVEN years MLTS has screened for thousands of audiences around the world, igniting conversations and empowering change along the way. | |
Film Summary: The ability to think creatively, bring expressive ideas to life, and communicate imaginatively are skills that help students succeed far beyond art class. For the past 22 years, art and media teacher Perry Buchalter has been empowering students at Molokaʻi High School to discover and express their voices by establishing foundational techniques, and then giving students freedom to explore. | | |
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A new podcast has joined my What School Could Be in Hawaiʻi and the very cool, Maestros Vibe series. It’s called Educator’s Edge and itʻs awesome. It was designed and built by and for Hawaiʻi public school educators who interview each other about interesting and relevant topics. Check it out on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, or click on the link below!
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The What School Could Be in Hawai'i Global Online Community:
Join The Many Wa'a, One Voyage Group
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Our Many Waʻa, One Voyage group is focused on twice-monthly podcast discussion sessions. Low stress, super fun - a way to connect with friends around the nation and the world - and hopefully inspiring in its focus on small steps leading to big change. All you need to do is listen to the assigned episode, RSVP at Events in the group, and show up! Mica Clarkson in Montana and Josh Reppun in Honolulu will facilitate discussions. Our January 5th discussion will focus on a Guy Kawasaki, Remarkable People episode with the Stanford School of Design (d.school) director, Sarah Greenberg. Join us! | |
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Our 2022 Hawaiʻi State Teacher Of The Year
Whitney Aragaki
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On December 3rd the Hawaiʻi State Department of Education (HIDOE) named Waiākea High School teacher, Whitney Aragaki the 2022 Hawaiʻi State Teacher of the Year. Aragaki received the state's top teaching award from Gov. David Ige and Interim Superintendent, Keith Hayashi during a virtual awards ceremony. Aragaki will represent Hawaiʻi in the National Teacher of the Year program. The honor is presented annually to a classroom teacher selected from more than 13,000 HIDOE educators. Aragaki was among 15 Complex Area Teachers of the Year and the Charter School Teacher of the Year recognized on December 3rd. “Whitney’s innovative approach to teaching offers students meaningful cultural and place-based learning opportunities that are both rigorous and relevant to our young learners,” Interim Superintendent Hayashi said. Aragaki has been teaching at Waiākea High for 10 years and currently serves as a 10th-grade biology and Advanced Placement (AP) Environmental Science teacher. Her classroom activities are known to put students in touch with their local communities and are designed around learning through problem solving. CONGRATULATIONS, Whitney! To hear my 2019 podcast interview with Whitney, check out the What School Could Be in Hawaiʻi series on Spotify, Apple, Google, Amazon and Stitcher podcasts. | |
This photo shows all our district state Teacher of the Year candidates. I am so grateful to all of them for being the rock upon which our public school system is built. It's hard to imagine what it takes to excel as a teacher during a global pandemic. Congratulations, epic educators! You inspire all of us! | |
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