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Aloha HE'E Members and Participants,
We would like to wish everyone Happy Holidays, Mele Kalikimaka and Hau'oli Makahiki Hou! Best wishes for 2014!
Upcoming HE'E Meetings
HE'E Planning/Policy Meeting: Wednesday, December 11, 2013, from 4:00-5:00pm at The Learning Coalition (841 Bishop Street #301, Validated Parking at Ali'i Place, 1099 Alakea St. See map here.) *For those needing special accommodations to The Learning Coalition, please contact cheri@heecoalition.org. Cheri will share about her experience at the CCSSO/PIE Network Conference on Common Core (see HE'E News) to give some perspective on where Hawaii stands on Common Core and Common Core outreach strategies. We will also continue our policy advocacy discussion at this meeting. At the last meeting, we were able to touch on a couple of topics including how to support a Hawaii Statewide Afterschool Network and also school air conditioning. At the next meeting, we will also re-visit the Family School Leave bill, link to last session's history is posted here. Please RSVP at cheri@heecoalition.org.
Pau Hana from 5:00-6:30pm at Gordon Biersch at Aloha Tower, 1 Aloha Tower Drive Suite 1123
Honolulu, HI 96813. We would like to celebrate the holidays with members. Please feel free to join us for some holiday cheer! We will walk from The Learning Coalition to Aloha Tower. If you should need directions, please contact cheri@heecoalition.org.
HE'E News
The Coalition vote to support a letter to the Governor supporting the DOE Supplemental Budget for the Fiscal Year 2014-2015 has passed. Mahalo to voting members for participating! Please see the final version of the letter here. The letter was sent to the Governor on November 27, 2013.
CCSSO/PIE Network "Make-or-Break Moments in the Transition of Common Core Assessments" Conference
HE'E Director Cheri Nakamura was recently invited by HIDOE to participate as part of the Hawaii team at the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and Policy Innovators in Education (PIE) Network's Conference "Make-or-Break Moments in the Transition to Common Core Assessments," which took place from October 28-30 in Chicago, IL. The purpose of the conference was to gather teams from states who have adopted Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and discuss effective outreach strategies for Common Core. There were thirty-three state teams that participated in the conference. It was a great opportunity to learn from other states. A copy of the conference agenda is listed here. A short presentation will be made at the next planning/policy meeting on December 11, 2013.
House Concurrent Resolution 57 (HCR57) on Family-School Partnerships
HE'E has participated in a series of Legislative Concurrent Resolutions on Family-School Partnerships for the past three years, with Senate Concurrent Resolution 145 (SCR145) in 2011, 79 (SCR79) in 2012 and currently House Concurrent Resolution (HCR57). The purpose of the resolutions has been for Hawaii BOE and DOE to work with parent groups and community organizations to establish, implement and monitor statewide policies for family-school partnerships in Hawaii public schools. A copy of HCR57 is listed here. Recently, the HCR57 workgroup, of which HE'E is a member, submitted comments to the Hawaii BOE, urging the BOE to adopt the revised BOE Policy No. 2403 on Parent/Family Involvement, which the workgroup submitted in 2102. A copy of the comment to the BOE is listed here. The work of HCR57 will end this calendar year. However, the members of the group will continue to work on the recommendations still outstanding. Therefore, if members would like to participate in this workgroup, please contact Cheri at cheri@heecoalition.org
Hawaii fourth-graders outperform nation in mathematics, 2013 'Nation's Report Card' shows
Hawaii's fourth- and eighth-graders continue to progress in mathematics and reading; and for the first time, the state's fourth graders have scored above the national average in math. This is according to the "The Nation's Report Card" released today by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) spring 2013 state-by-state results. See link to DOE website here.
Congratulations to HIDOE! Thank you Coalition members for your efforts to support students, teachers, and families in making positive change!
KINDERGARTEN AGE HAS CHANGED!
The Hawaii Executive Office of Early Learning (EOEL) has created materials to publicized to providers and the public about the upcoming Kindergarten age change for Hawaii Public Schools. Starting August 14, 2014, your child must be 5 on or before July 31 to enter kindergarten. Please see poster for general public here, flyer for families here and flyer for providers here. For more information please go to the Hawaii EOEL website at this link.
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
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