Aloha HE'E Members and Participants,

HE'E and Community Meetings

HE'E Special Meeting on Family-School Partnership Actions

HE'E will hold a special meeting on Wednesday, June 19, 2013 from 9-11am at The Learning Coalition (841 Bishop Street #301) to review actions that schools and families can do to improve family-school partnerships. Using the work by Family Hui, HIDOE and the Executive Office on Early Learning on Family Partnership Guidelines, HE'E would like to create a simple list of actions for schools to use as a tool.  Please join us if you are available! If you are able to attend, please RSVP at cheri@heecoalition.org.  Validated parking is at Ali'i Place at 1099 Alakea Street. Please see map here. 

HE'E Quarterly Meeting

HE'E sends a big mahalo Dr. Kerrie Urosevich for her presentation at the last HE'E Quarterly Meeting. Materials for Family Hui, a peer-led collaborative program which helps build the capacity of families to support their children, are here.  Materials for Ceeds of Peace, professional development created by Dr. Urosevich and Dr. Maya Soetoro-Ng, which bring together teachers, families and community members to gain skills in supporting children and youth to be peacebuilding leaders in their communities, are here.  Mahalo also to Head Start State Collaboration Office's Chris Jackson and the Department of Education's Gordon Miyamoto for supporting Kerrie on her presentation of Executive Office on Early Learning's efforts in creating statewide Family Partnership Guidelines, trainings and toolkits.

HE'E also welcomed a new teacher advocacy group called Learning First and new participant Junior Achievement of Hawaii at the Quarterly Meeting. Learning First seeks to put teachers whose number one priority is educational excellence at the center of education policy making.Their wordpress and facebook links are here:

http://learningfirsthi.wordpress.com/ 

https://www.facebook.com/learningfirsthi 

Junior Achievement of Hawaii was founded in 1957 to educate and inspire young people to value free enterprise, business, and economics to improve the quality of their lives. They provide programs all over Hawaii and have operations in Oahu and the Big Island. Their website link is here:

http://www.jahawaii.org  

HE'E and Strive HI Performance System

Recently, HE'E organized a  meeting with Stephanie Shipton from HIDOE's Office of Strategic Reform to give an update on Strive HI Performance System (ESEA Flexibility). HE'E members have given great feedback on what families and community members want to know about the new Strive HI Performance System.  Mahalo to those who have provided input!  For more information about the reforms, please see DOE link here:   

http://doe.k12.hi.us/strivehisystem/ 

If you would like to be involved in the outreach or provide feedback, please contact Cheri on cheri@heecoalition.org.  

HE'E and Ho'opono Mamo, The Hawaii Youth Diversion System  

HE'E staff also met recently with Karen Umemoto and Tai-An Miao who are leading a project called Ho'opono Mamo, which is an effort to increase community capacity to intervene with our at-risk youth.

For more information on this project, please see their presentation here. We will be following up with HE'E 's Social Justice Workgroup to see how we may collaborate with this project.  

HE'E Member News

McREL's Pacific Center for Changing the Odds wants to inform you of a special one-day workshop on Classroom Instruction That Works. Please see more information here. 
Discover how to create an effective environment for learning that boosts student motivation, engagement, and focus using key insights from Classroom Instruction That Works.
Learn how, why, and when to use the strategies in your classrooms. Hear more about the new instructional planning framework that helps teachers apply the nine strategies intentionally and effectively. Learn how three of the strategies work together to specifically create a quality environment for learning, forming the backbone of every lesson plan and helping to engage, motivate, and focus student learning.  For questions, please contact Beth Siegfried at 808.664.8176 or bsiegfried@mcrel.org

21st Century School Facilities Supporters
Please join the Department of Education (DOE) and Hawaii Institute for Public Affairs (HIPA) as we share the exciting progress of the 21st Century Schools Initiative. The recent passage of SB237 will create the opportunity for the DOE to showcase three pilot 21st Century School projects over the next 5 years.  Concurrently, HIPA will be embarking on a systemic plan to assist in guiding the long-term pursuit of a sustainable statewide transformative approach to upgrade and modernize Hawaii's 254 school facilities and 49 public libraries.

Date: June 20, 2013
Time: 1:30-2:30 p.m.
Where: Ward Warehouse Building D, Kewalo Room, 2nd Floor
(above Nohea Gallery & C. June Shoes Mauka side on Auahi St.)
Stairs on either end of building or escalator at The Liquor Collection.
Parking: Free on the outer concourse, Auahi St. side or in the garage level 3 and up.
RSVP: RSVP@hipaonline.com by Monday, 6/17/13.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Jeannie Schulz-Afuvai on 

jschultz@hipaonline.com 

HE'E meeting notes posted on http://www.heecoalition.org/resources/hee-meeting-notes/  

HE'E email archives on http://www.heecoalition.org/resources/hee-email-newsletter-archive