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May 30th, 2019

5/30/2019

Letʻs say you, the educator are predisposed to project-based, problem-based, challenge-based, essential question-based, product-based, place-based, culture-based, intentional design-based, personalized, individualized, multiple intelligences-based, inquiry-based teaching and learning. Or at least you are dipping your toes into these possibilities.

As you work through your challenge, use the website as a tool to address the following questions:

1. In what ways might this site and its functions help you as you move forward with your project?
2. Specifically, in what ways might the Network Map help you move forward with your project.

School Retool Hawaiʻi

5/27/2019

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.

ʻAha Kūkā april 2019: so many questions

5/27/2019

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?

our māla, our garden: MLTS at Ka’ōhao pcs

5/27/2019

On March 25th, 2019, @MLTSinHawaii facilitated a half-day professional development event at Ka'õhao Public Charter School (formerly known as Lanikai Elementary). Faculty were asked to watch "Most Likely to Succeed," then work in groups to develop a #manywaaonevoyage set of sail plans for taking micro innovative ideas to other parts of campus, or even other public and private schools. Participants explained their sail plans in a fishbowl format, then committed to action.

our māla, our garden: the 2017 waʻa talks

5/27/2019

On February 28th, 2017 @MLTSinHawaii teamed up with Waialae Public Charter School's Kapono Ciotti to carry out another edition of the Waʻa Talks, which is a fishbowl, roundtable series of discussions between educators, school leaders and community leaders about the purpose and meaning of "school."

our māla, our garden: wise school leadership?

5/26/2019

At HAIS's Leading Schools of the Future conference in April, 2018, teacher candidates in the UH Manoa, College of Education ITE Secondary Cohort facilitated table discussions based on the following question: What does wise school leadership look, sound and feel like? Engaged leaders from public, public charter and private schools in Hawaiʻi dove deeply into this question; the answers were incredibly varied.

our māla, our garden: school retool Hawaiʻi cohort #1

5/26/2019

Pictured here is workshop #2 of Hawai'i's first SchoolRetool.org, all-island cohort, which worked from January 19th to March 23rd. This first Retool cohort graduated 22 Fellows, school leaders from public, charter and private schools from Maui, Hawai'i Island, Kaua’i and O'ahu. Retool Fellows build on a micro-theory of school transformation (small steps lead to big change) and hack their way to greater student engagement.

our māla, our garden: MLTS at UH Manoa Coe

5/26/2019

In January of 2018 @MLTSinHawaii and Ted Dintersmith traveled to the University of Hawai'i at Manoa's College of Education to screen "Most Likely to Succeed" the ITE Secondary Cohort, the so-called "home grown" group of educators seeking certification to teach in our Department of Education. 40% of the students are on campus, 60% pipe in via Zoom from Lanai, Molokai, Maui and Hawai'i Island. This was a great night of professional development for future Hawai'i teachers.

our māla, our garden: @mltsinhawaii goes to molokai

5/26/2019

On January 8th, 2019 @MLTSinHawaii's Design Team went on the road to Molokai, where it delivered an 8-hour, full-day InnovationPlaylist.org training to five Canoe Complex schools. We played songs like Socratic seminar, shadow a student, essential skills and learner profiles, creativity time, project-based learning and much more. All the songs sounded...awesome.

our māla, our garden: the IP and the Canoe complex

5/26/2019

On July 16th and 17th, 2018 at the Maui Arts and Cultural Center, @MLTSinHawaii's Design Team delivered a two-day training to principals and campus allies from Maui, Lanai and Molokai schools, otherwise known as the Canoe Complex. This high energy moment focused on Ted Dintersmith's InnovationPlaylist.org, which positions a micro-theory of school change (small steps lead to big impacts). Participants read Ted's book, "What School Could Be," and watched Ted's film "Most Likely to Succeed."