Interview: Paul Turnbull, President, Mid-Pacific Institute How will the coming school year be different from previous years? The coming school year will be unique due to necessary social distancing and safety guidelines to protect the Mid-Pacific school community throughout the…
Hawaiʻi’s largest coworking space, the Hub Coworking Hawai’i, and Super Power Academy have created a Superpower Camp at the Hub to provide working parents a flexible work space and a new educational childcare solution for the summer.
Virtual Interview: Chad Keone Farias, Ka‘ū-Kea‘au-Pāhoa Complex Area Superintendent, Hawai‘i Department of Education How did you lead through the transition and create a system that allowed students to continue learning? It’s an honor to represent the Ka‘ū-Kea‘au-Pāhoa (KKP) complex schools…
Virtual Interview: Esther Kanehailua, Hilo-Waiākea Complex Area Superintendent, Hawai‘i Department of Education How did you lead through the transition and create a system that allowed students to continue learning? At the start of the pandemic, it was about the timely…
Virtual Interview: Lindsay Ball, Hāna-Lahainaluna-Lāna‘i-Moloka‘i Complex Area Superintendent, Hawai‘i Department of Education How did you lead through the transition and create a system that allowed students to continue learning? The Hāna-Lahainaluna-Lanai-Molokai Complex Area or “Canoe Complex” schools embarked into this…
Virtual Interview: Janette Snelling, Honoka‘a-Kealakehe-Kohala-Konawaena Complex Area Superintendent, Hawai‘i Department of Education How did you lead through the transition and create a system that allowed students to continue learning? I have chosen to lead through the lens of hope and…
Virtual Interview: Christina Kishimoto, Superintendent, Hawai‘i State Department of Education What changes did you and the DOE make to finish this school year? I am proud of the way our students, teachers and staff were able to quickly and effectively…
Virtual Interview: Kathleen Dimino, Baldwin-Kekaulike-Maui Complex Area Superintendent, Hawai‘i Department of Education How did you lead through the transition and create a system that allowed students to continue learning? Listening carefully and understanding how health guidelines impact our school communities…
Virtual Interview: Sean Tajima, Campbell-Kapolei Complex Area Superintendent, Hawai‘i Department of Education How did you lead through the transition and create a system that allowed students to continue learning? Our schools have had to look for ways to be innovative…
Virtual Interview: Suzanne Rowland, Managing Director, Queen Emma Ballet What has been your company’s latest pivot or innovation? Queen Emma Ballet’s big pivot was going from classes at our studio locations to totally online live stream instruction. Our latest pivot…
The closing of schools across the Hawaiian Islands affected all students, parents and teachers, but seniors felt it the most. Everything they had built toward during their school years had been ruined by a virus: prom, spring sports seasons, senior…
Virtual Interview: Ruth Fletcher, Head of School, St. Andrew’s Schools What changes did you make to finish this school year, and have you made plans for summer school? Like many schools in Hawaiʻi we quickly transitioned our K-12 face-to-face class…
The spring of 2020 was supposed to be a time of celebration for high school seniors but has become a season of disappointment. To learn more, we interviewed five of my Maui classmates at Hawaii Technology Academy, a public charter…
Virtual interview with: Marjie Carroll, Head of School, Montessori Community School What changes did you make to finish this school year, and have you made plans for summer school? Since March 30, teachers at Montessori Community School (MCS) have been…
Virtual Interview: Dr. Lynn Babington, President, Chaminade University What changes did you make to finish this school year, and have you made plans for summer school? Chaminade University made a number of significant adjustments to the final five weeks of…
Virtual Interview: Maenette K.P. Ah Nee-Benham, Chancellor, University of Hawaiʻi–West Oʻahu What changes did you make to finish this school year, and have you made plans for summer school? All 10 campuses in the University of Hawaiʻi System went fully…
The final months of college are supposed to be an emotional high and an optimistic door to the future. Instead, UH Mānoa seniors are experiencing lost jobs, no commencement ceremony, canceled internships and athletic competitions, premature goodbyes to close friends…
Kaleiu‘i Hosaka is only a few days away from graduating from Chaminade University with a bachelor’s degree in nursing. She was supposed to do her clinical immersion in person at Saint Francis Hospice this semester, which is valuable hands-on experience…
Virtual Interview: Heather Nakakura, Director, West Hawaii Explorations Academy What changes did you make to finish this school year, and have you made plans for summer school? I’m very proud of the way our staff pulled together as a team…
Virtual Interview: Dr. Kyle Atabay, Principal, and Brother Brian M. Walsh, President, Damien Memorial School What changes did you make to finish this school year, and have you made plans for summer school? Atabay: Our third quarter ended on March…
It is a bittersweet May for UH-Hilo seniors. They will graduate this month with a hard-earned bachelor’s degree, but without the emotional triumph of a commencement ceremony and with their post-graduation plans on hold. Bethany Anderson, a psychology major from…
Virtual Interview: Celeste Akiu, Principal, Holy Family Catholic Academy & Early Learning Center What changes did you make to finish this school year, and have you made plans for summer school? Holy Family Catholic Academy & Early Learning Center (HFCA)…
We stood in the door of our hotel room in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, mouths agape, legs numb. Our coach had just told us that our swim meet had been canceled because of the coronavirus. We were in Wisconsin in March…
We are continuing to publish stories researched and written before the COVID-19 crisis, such as this one. Schools and businesses are partnering in unprecedented ways to develop the state’s future workforce. This is Part I of a two part…