Professional
Development
Professional Development look more like presentations may have a discussion component. We consider this to be a synchronous presentation and discussion. PD will focus on curriculum organization, consumption, personalization, adaptation, and presentation when incorporating Hawaiian values, language, culture, and history.
Sponsored Events SY 2020 - 2021
Aupuni Palapala Book Club
Featuring Authors and Guest Speakers
Aupuni Palapala Book Club is a meeting space to engage in kānaka scholarship that uplifts our community through critical ways of looking at our history, our present, and our futures. We interact with authors and facilitators that provide opportunity to have difficult conversations and to help develop our perspectives of Hawaiʻi.
Resilience, Health, and Wellness
Featuring: Dr Aukahi Austin Seabury
This 8-part series is one component of the Aupuni Palapala series for teachers. The series focuses on supporting the resilience, health, and wellness of teachers by providing content and strategies that teachers can apply to themselves as well as use with their students. Topics were chosen for their relevance to teaching within a COVID-19 climate along with their generalizability beyond this time.
Māla ʻAi A I Mea ʻAi - Plant to Plate
In collaboration with Windward Community College
Aupuni Palapala is co-hosting an engaging series about plant-based wellness strategies. We discuss topics like food production, preservation, and preparation while working with physical materials like ʻŌlena, Nīoi, ‘Uala, Kukui, soil, tools, etc.
Art Journaling
Aupuni Palapala Staff
These sessions were designed to engage educators in creative and healthy habits of artistic reflection and art strategies as well as rethinking and recreating educational curriculum. Stacy Prellberg will be hosting this session and will be engaging participants in developing their own art journaling practice. These sessions will also be supported by providing art kits for interested teachers who need a bit of art in their classrooms and their lives
E Moʻolelo Kākou
Aupuni Palapala Staff
E Moʻolelo Kākou is a weekly event that gives an opportunity for kumu to gather to learn and share about implementing Hawaiian curriculum in the classroom. These sessions are semi-structured and intentionally designed to give kumu both support and reflection time for curricular support and implementation.
Hui Kamaʻilio
Aupuni Palapala Staff | Weds 3:45 - 4:45pm
Need more opportunities to practice ʻōlelo? Aupuni Palapala is proud to present a meeting place for kumu who are interested in learning more about ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian Language) and itʻs growing presence in our everyday lives. In these sessions, our staff will offer opportunities to hear, see, and speak ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi that is related to education and the classroom. This session is fully tailored to support the beginning speaker as well as the advanced speakers.
Ka Wai o Kahuailana
He kumu kou hoʻomalumalu ʻo Ka Wai o Kahuailana e laʻi ai nā manu kani leʻa o ka ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi. E laʻi ai nō i nā haʻiʻōlelo a me nā hana kuʻuna o ka ʻāina nei i mea hoʻi a ulakolako ai ke ao a puni.
Ka wai o Kahuailana is in reference to Kahuailanawai, a place in the uplands of Nuʻuanu famed for being the place at which Keaomelemele first learned Hula.
E Hoʻoikaika i Nā Pilina
Learn to use the mural process to create collaborative, creative, and community-based projects that are relevant to you and your school community. Deepen community connection to place through moʻolelo, kupuna, cultural practices and values. Deepen community relationships with place in order to become caretakers.
Deepen community connection to place through moʻolelo, kupuna, cultural practices and values
Deepen community relationships with place in order to become caretakers
Learn art techniques through visual arts media
With guidance from Mele Muralʻs Estria Foundation
The first cohort of our Hoʻoikaika i nā Pilina sessions is a diverse group of 35 school professionals, with participants coming from Hawaiʻi, Maui, Molokaʻi, Oʻahu, and Kauaʻi schools. With the help of your application, we were able to create a group that is well mixed geographically, interest-wise, and with ʻike Hawaiʻi awareness levels.
2/13/21 - Part I
Huakaʻi: Begin lesson on slideshow, meditation, and mural concept (synchronous online).
2/20/21 - Part II
Meditation, drawing lessons, HĀ overview (synchronous online) and MM documentary (asynchronous)
3/6/21 - Part III
Meditation, mural painting (Synchronous hybrid - some in person, some not)
3/13/21 - Part IV
Meditation, painting lessons (Synchronous online)
Culture, Community, Curriculum.
In collaboration with Kūpaʻa Collective
This 2 day limited series event will feature the collective power of their holistic approach to addressing Covid-19. This event is specifically for teachers in the classroom that want access to information that makes it easier and more effective to introduce, discuss, and learn about Covid-19. Through historical, scientific, economical, and curricular evidence, these experts have created a resource they want to share with you. Please consider attending this 2 day event.
Quotes from Participants
“I believe all the lessons are extremely relevant to the experiences of our haumana. All lessons could be presented perhaps in a conference format. In regards to the mo'okuauhau ha'awina, I have always struggled with creating a lesson that would show how similar my life is to the children I teach. This lesson helps me to discuss trauma in a safe space.” - James Bright
“Everyone should be doing some kind of self-care daily, several times a day if possible. I would love to take this curriculum to my students and teach as a COVID educator.” - Kalani Pagan
“It's all great. I am so GRATEFUL to see this kind of work going on. Keep the aloha and the spirit going. I've been teaching in our public schools for 33 years and all the cultural and educational best practices I've advocated and believed in all those years are finally coming full circle with initiatives like this. MAHALO” - Wendy Nickl
“I loved that values, language, culture and history are all wrapped into this program. Considering all these aspects are allowing us to see many perspectives and not be tunnel visioned! Our haumana need to learn from all directives in order to become well rounded 21st century learners with the ike of our kupuna embedded into the events we are experiencing.” - Jenny De Silva Stevens
Historiography and Access to Primary Resource
Featuring Ronald Clayton Williams Jr Ph.D
In this mini-series, Dr Williams, will introduce the topic of Kānaka ʻŌiwi Identity development through a historical lens. Then he will offer 2 sessions on skills, tools, and strategies to empower educators in providing students with primary resources that are powerful and engaging. For anyone interested in how we empower students with examples of excellence in Hawaiʻi, these sessions are for you.
Session 1: A History of Instituational Education in Hawaiʻi and the Shaping of Kanaka ʻŌiwi Identity, 1900 - Present - In this impactful session Dr. Williams will offer a framework for understanding the history of Institutional Education in Hawaiʻi, 1900-Present, and then offer accounts of little-known events and primary-source resources to give shape to the depth and breadth of how it shaped Kanaka ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiian) identity. Recorded Session
Session 2: Hōʻike Noiʻi I - Archivist and researcher Ron Williams Jr. PhD offers insight on the power of primary-source research and strategies on doing research in the archives of Hawaiʻi. Recorded Session
Session 3: Hōʻike Noiʻi II - Dr. Ron Williams Jr. offers both methods and finding aids to accessing on-line content with which you can build engaging, relevant, and affecting lesson plans. Recorded Session
Quotes from Participants
“Being able to show students primary source documents can be very powerful in engaging students and inspiring inquiry. Seeing Queen Lilioukalani's music in her own handwriitng brings life to the documents themselves. Having access to these resources affords teachers much richer curricular options and content.” - Lori Chun
“All of it was impactful. I attended all 3 session and was blown away by his moʻolelo of the history of education system in Hawaiʻi. I am also grateful for the processes and tools shared when researching. The use of primary resources add a valuable dimension and depth to research, lessons, and resources. The content and delivery definitely exhibited a strengthened sense of Hawaiʻi. Kauka Williams and his worked exemplified Excellence. The knowledge shared with learners increased our sense of responsibility to better serve our keiki and kumu.” - Anela Iwane
