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Aloha HE'E Members and Participants,
I apologize for the confusion but the HE'E Planning Meeting will be on Tuesday, December 11, 2012 (not on December 13 as previously stated) at The Learning Coalition from 9-11am. Please see the corrected information below.
HE'E News
HE'E, as a member of the SCR79 Workgroup, continued its work presenting to the DOE and BOE recommendations for indicators relating to family-school partnerships in the DOE's Strategic Plan. At the November 20th BOE Finance and Infrastructure Committee (FIC) meeting, the workgroup presented committee members with its recommendations for Goal 3, Objective 3c. Please see this link for the recommendations. The DOE will need to vet the recommendations before the BOE can take action, so we are continuing to advocate and encourage the DOE to consider our recommendations.
HE'E's Social Justice Workgroup has also made great progress in November. The workgroup met with members of the HIDOE leadership and also had a conference call with the the USDOE Office of Civil Rights to see how the Coalition might assist with safe school initiatives. The workgroup will review possible safe school legislation and will work to finalize policy recommendations to the full Coalition in time for the upcoming legislative session.
DoSomething.org is a national organization that harnesses that energy from teens and unleashes it on causes they care about. It is one of the largest organizations in the US for teens and social change. In April 2012, DoSomething.org launched an interactive Facebook application, DoSomething.org's The Bully Project (Bully App), in partnership with the movie Bully, which allowed students to report on their experience with bullying in their schools by responding to eight close-ended questions and one open-ended prompt. The response was so successful that a comparative analysis was done on the results. A report was created, analyzing over 50,000 unique responses of secondary school students across the nation, including Hawaii. Please see the complete Bully Report at this link here. HE'E isolated the Hawaii data and compiled the results for Hawaii at this link here. HE'E will use the data to help inform its advocacy work in the safe schools arena.
Recently, the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) contacted HE'E to ask for our support on a project that they are working on. Next spring, with U.S. News & World Report as their publisher, NCTQ will be releasing our Teacher Prep Review - a first-ever, in-depth look at over 1,100 college-based teacher preparation programs. See the content of the e-mail at this link here. If you have views on this project, please send them to me at cheri@heecoalition.org. If there is interest, we can discuss further at the upcoming Planning Meeting on December 11, 2012.
Upcoming HE'E Meetings
There will be two exciting HE'E meetings in December, which are highlighted below. We encourage everyone to participate even though you may may be new to a committee or workgroup. We look forward to seeing you at one of these meetings!
*December 11, 2012, Tuesday, 9:00-11:00am, HE'E Planning Meeting at The Learning Coalition: The Planning Team will decide on policy advocacy recommendations for the full Coalition. HE'E Workgroups who would like to submit recommendations to the Planning Team have may send recommendations for review to cheri@heecoalition.org. The Learning Coalition Office is at 841 Bishop Street Suite 301. Validated parking available at Ali'i Place at 1099 Alakea Street.
December 18, 2012, Tuesday, 9:00-11:00am, HE'E Special Meeting on 21st Century Schools and Middle School Attendance at The Learning Coalition: Please join us for two presentations by distinguished guest speakers.
From 9:00-10:00am, we will hear from the team at Hawaii Institute of Public Affairs (HIPA) on their 21st Century Schools Initiative. Last month, HE'E wrote a letter of support for HIPA, for their application for a Ford Foundation Grant for this initiative. (See letter of support at this link here) Members had questions about some of the detail of project so it is a great opportunity to ask questions and engage in conversation.
From 10:00-11:00am, we will have a presentation from guest speakers Deborah Spencer Chun, President and CEO of Adult Friends for Youth, and David Hipp, Executive Director of Office of Youth Services, Department of Human Services, on their middle school absenteeism project. The two schools being targeted are Dole Middle and Waianae Intermediate Schools, which have absenteeism rates that are 2-3 times higher than the Oahu average. The project aims to determine the contributing factors to the absenteeism of middle school youths and then to evaluate strategies to alleviate those stressors.
Please send RSVP's to all meetings to cheri@heecoalition.org as soon as possible. Conference call capability is also available for all meetings; if you would like to participate remotely please let us know.
Upcoming Community Meetings
December 4, 2012, Time TBA, BOE's Student Achievement Committee (SAC) Meeting at The Queen Liliuokalani Building, Room 404: The SAC will meet for the last time this year to finalize recommendations for targets and metrics for Goal 1 of the Strategic Plan. HE'E, as a member of the SCR79 Workgroup, will continue to advocate for the Workgroup's recommendations.
December 18, 2012, Time TBA, BOE's General Business Meeting at the Queen Liliuokalani Building, Room 404: The full Board will meet and finalize metrics and indicators for the Strategic Plan. HE'E, as a member of the SCR79 Workgroup, will attend in support of the Workgroup's recommendations.
HE'E Member News
The Clarence T. C. Ching PUEO Program at Punahou School continues to grow with 280 students in the PUEO Program, 40 current high school seniors, and 40 students admitted to college last Spring (with a few
more additions---more than 360 students). We now have a program that begins at the end of the 5th grade year and continues into college. One of our scholar-graduates is on a full ride at Princeton and has
another scholarship to take her through graduate school. We continue to advocate for our public school students and our goal for these students remains the same--- A College Degree. For more information,
contact Carl Ackerman at cackerman@punahou.edu.
Hawaii Partnership for Educational Research Consortium's (HPERC's) 2012 Educational Research Symposium, Tuesday, December 18, 2012, 9:00am to 3:30pm at The Japanese Cultural Center, 2454 South Beretania Street. This year's topic: We Can Do It: Research by, for, and about Hawaii.
The goal of this event is to bring together individuals involved in educational research in Hawaii -- educators, graduate students, and educational researchers, evaluators, analysts, administrators, and program staff -- to explore ways to facilitate the conduct of educational research by locally based researchers, for local use, and about the local context.
Attendees will investigate the parameters of the Priority Research Topics (list of topics at this link here), develop viable research questions in these topic areas, and assist in identifying the knowledge, skills, and data necessary to answer these research questions. The Symposium will also feature a poster session. All attendees affiliated with an HPERC member organization (member list at this link here) are welcome to submit proposals. For more information, visit this link here. Register here. Registration deadline: Friday, November 30, 2012. Travel funding is available for those attending from the neighbor islands. Please contact hperc.info@gmail.com for more information.
Upcoming Events
We would like to continue to share upcoming events, great news, accomplishments or acknowledgements of the Coalition so please feel free to update me with the great work that is going on in the community!
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