As of April, 2019, there are now over 70 public, private and charter School Retool Fellows. The first cohort worked from January to March, 2018. This was an all-island cohort that did its hacking training at Hālau ‘Īnana, an innovation space build by Kamehameha Schools. The second and third cohorts did their work from January - April, 2019. One cohort consisted of school leaders from Lanai, Molokai and Maui. The other cohort was made up of school leaders from West Oahu. School Retool is a professional development fellowship that helps school leaders redesign school culture using small, scrappy experiments called “hacks.” Hacks may start small, but they're built on research-based practices that lead to Deeper Learning, and can create the kind of big change we aspire to—namely, preparing our students for life in the real world. School Retool Hawaiʻi is a partnership between Leigh Fitzgerald and @MLTSinHawaii. 

From our ʻAha Kūkā: A Gathering Around Building Our Capacity, April 2nd and 3rd, 2019, came many, many questions. Here are just a few:

~ How do we continue to build our capacity in the weeks, months and years ahead? 
~ How do we prevent the duplication of PD efforts?
~ Given so many PD providers, how do school leaders and educators make PD choices that align with their school's mission and vision?
~ How do we vet PD so that we know which is deeply student-centered, and which is being delivered for other motives? 
~ How might PD organizations and facilitators provide courses, for credit, to teacher candidates and new teachers? 
~ What do our students feel about our teachers in terms of their need for professional development? What does student voice tell us about where we go with PD in Hawaiʻi? 
~ How do PD providers keep 'aina and culture front and center while preparing our students for a 21st century world increasingly defined by the pace of technology?
~ How do we defined what is professional development? Might the two best PD experiences be: 1. joining a cohort and 2. finding a mentor? 
~ How does any PD provider or facilitator gain exposure and credibility with private funders and schools? 
~ How do we keep most or all of our PD funds here in Hawaiʻi? 
~ What is professional development's "value add" to the transformation that is required in our education? 
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