Elevating and Celebrating

Effective Teachers and Teaching

February 27-28th, 2016
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Program at a Glance
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 27 Iolani School
9:00 - 9:30

Registration/ Breakfast

Sullivan Center, 3rd Floor

9:30 - 9:45

Opening

Sullivan Center, 3rd Floor

9:45 - 10:00

Keynote
Jonathon Medeiros
Kauai High School

Sullivan Center, 3rd Floor

Colleague Circles

Sullivan Center, 3rd Floor

10:00 - 11:15
11:15 - 11:30

BREAK/ PASSING TIME

11:30 - 12:45

Breakout Sessions

Various Locations

12:45 - 1:45

Educational Partners Lunch

Sullivan Center, 4th Floor

1:45 - 2:00

Break/ Passing Time

2:00 - 2:15

Keynote
Dr. Chad Miller
2012 Hawaii State Teacher of the Year

Sullivan Center, 3rd Floor

2:15 - 3:30

Colleague Circle: Problem of Practice # 1

Sullivan Center, 3rd Floor

3:30 - 3:45

Keynote
Loretta Labrador
Kualapuu Public Charter School on Molokai

Sullivan Center, 3rd Floor

3:45 - 3:55

BREAK/ PASSING TIME

3:55 - 5:10

Breakout Session 2

5:10 - 5:15

Keynote
Dana Ishii
Sunset Beach Elementary School

5:30 -5:35

Conference Closing

5:45

Bus to Celebration

6:15 - 8:30

Special Celebratory Dinner

8:30

Bus to Hotel

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Sullivan Center, 3rd Floor

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 28 Pacific Beach Hotel

8:00 - 9:00

Feed Your Mind, Feed Your Body, Feed Your Soul

9:00 - 9:30

Locations TBA
Meet in Marlin Room

Check out/ Breakfast - Networking time

9:30 - 10:00

Welcome: Action Plan #bib

10:05 - 11:00

Colleague Circle -Problem of Practice #2

11:00 - 11:15

BREAK

11:15 - 12:05

Panel Discussions

12:05 - 12:20

Keynote
Sharon Look
Pia School

12:20 - 12:30

Closing

Mahalo
For Your Passion
and Affecting
Positive Change
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Breakout Sessions
SESSION 1
1A: INCORPORATING MINDFULNESS IN SPECIAL EDUCATION AND INCLUSION
CLASSROOMS
Teachers will participate in an interactive session designed to understand simple strategies to incorporate
mindfulness in Special Education and Inclusion classrooms. Teachers will also investigate the purpose,
theory, and practical uses of mindfulness in an education setting.
Presenters: Clint Labrador and Loretta Labrador

1B: HABITS OF THE MIND IN ACTION

Discover the foundations and purpose of using Habits of Mind (HoM), a framework of dispositions to
develop problem solvers and critical thinkers. Learn the process of concept attainment that will help you
and your students understand the meaning of each HoM and identify ways to incorporate HoMs into your
lessons and classroom practices.
Presenters: Catherine Caine and Stefanie Sweeney

1C: RAISE YOUR VOICE: USING DIGITAL STORYTELLING WITH STUDENTS

More and more, we live in a digital world. This access to digital storytelling gives people around the world
the ability to hear from the voices of those traditionally oppressed or overlooked. This session will cover two
main forms of digital sharing-- podcasts and blogging-- as lessons to work with students. Note: This session
relies heavily on Google Chrome, and is recommended for teachers with consistent computer lab access or
1-to-1 programs at their schools. Please bring laptops.
Presenters: Christina Torres

1D: BUILDING INNOVATIVE SCHOOL PARTNERSHIPS AROUND SUSTAINABILITY

Explore resources and partnerships to develop sustainability initiatives on your school campus. Dig into
Kkua Hawaii Foundation programs and resources to develop frameworks toward curriculum integration
with overall school sustainability goals, outcomes, and vision. Educators will receive Kkua Hawaii
Foundation grant materials and be provided application support and examples of successful projects.
Presenters: Natalie McKinney, Debbie Milikan, and Lisa Espiritu

1E: PROMOTING RESILIENCE THROUGH CHILDRENS LITERATURE

This session aims to raise awareness of data relating to adverse childhood experiences and how these
experiences affect learning. Participants will work in groups to examine childrens literature and consider
their impact as a tool in helping children develop resilience in various ways.
Presenters: Dr. Jonathan Gillentine

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SESSION 2
2A: P4C HAWAII AND THE PHILOSOPHERS PEDAGOGY
The focus on engaging students in classroom inquiry distinguishes p4c Hawaii from typical approaches to
teaching content in schools. This professional development session aims to provide participants with ideas
and examples of how to bring inquiry and philosophy into a variety of core classroom activities. Participants
will leave this session with: 1) knowledge of the 4 pillars of p4c Hawaii; 2) criteria and a toolkit to aid
students in developing philosophical questions for meaningful and rigorous inquiry; 3) examples of activities
that can be used to utilize students questions and wonderment in their content areas.
Presenters: Dr. Chad Miller and Kiki Bush

2B: NUMBER ROUTINES

Number routines foster a positive learning environment around mathematics for students in your classroom
and engage students in mathematical practices throughout the school year. Educators will participate in a
series of number routines and activities that will develop their understanding of how to build and support
numeracy for all students, increase classroom discourse, and address the mathematical shifts.
Presenters: Sadie Estrella and Mitzi Haesgawa

2C: STUDENT-DRIVEN PROJECT

BASED LEARNING
At SEEQS, our project-based "EQS" (Essential
Question of Sustainability) block focuses on
helping students follow their own interests
and design their own projects within a broad
topic or essential question. In this session, we
will explore the benefits and challenges of
leading student-driven projects, and we will
share the structures and systems we've put in
place thus far to support our students.
Participants will gain tools and ideas for
supporting student-driven projects in any
setting.
Presenters:Buffy Cushman-Patz, Dr. Tammy
Jones, and Andrea Charuk

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2D: PERSPECTIVES FOR A DIVERSE AMERICAS: CREATING A LITERACY BASED
INTEGRATED LEARNING PLAN THAT MARRIES ANTI-BIAS SOCIAL JUSTICE CONTENT
AND THE RIGOR OF COMMON CORE
Perspectives for a Diverse America (PDA) is a literacy-based anti-bias curriculum that is aligned to the
Common Core Standards for Language Arts and Literacy standards, the newly developed College, Career,
and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Standardsand to the Teaching Tolerance Anti-bias
Framework (ABF). Its Web-based modular design allows for maximum flexibility, customization and
differentiation. PDA is an excellent resource for schools that are looking for a comprehensive approach to
incorporating social and emotional learning into rigorous and relevant academic coursework. In this
breakout session educators will learn how to use the free Web-based curriculum by creating a PDA
Integrated Learning Plan of their very own.
Presenters: Dr. Amber Makaiu, Dr. Patricia Halagao, Alder Olive

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2E: DESIGNING EDUCATION
EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION THROUGH
COMMUNITY FRIEND-RAISING
Through dynamic, problem-based, and
interactive activities, educators will
experience the story and process of the
Kealakehe STEM programs and develop an
action plan on how to deploy industrydeveloped Design Thinking techniques into
their school community. To create more
college- sequenced, STEM, and 21st century
opportunities for students, teachers will learn
about friend-raising and the power of
community partnerships in reshaping a
schools funding and planning structures. This
session will serve best users that want to
remain critically and eagerly aware of creative,
game-changing, and positively disruptive
ideas and programs that can prepare students
for the acceleration in paradigm shifting
technologies and markets.
Presenters: Justin Brown

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Wellness Retreat Options

FEED YOUR MIND, FEED YOUR BODY, FEED YOUR SOUL
for all activities plan to meet in Marlin Room at 8:00 am.
Coffee and Crafting

Come join us for a quick craft project to get your creative energy flowing.

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Beach Workout

Start your day with an equipment free workout on the beach with the
beautiful Pacific Ocean as the backdrop.

Run

Take a scenic run through Waikiki and check out the early morning city
scene.

Swim

Enjoy some early morning saltwater therapy by taking a swim in the warm
waters of the Pacific Ocean.

Yoga

Set aside some time for a 30 minute vinyasa and meditative yoga practice.
This will focus mostly on restorative and mindful poses. Please bring mat
and/or towel.

Self-directed Activities

Do your own Waikiki walkabout or have coffee with your new ECET2 friends.
Use this time to network and build relationships with your fellow educators.

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Keynote Bios
JONATHON MEDEIROS
Jonathon Medeiros is a National Board Certified teacher at Kauai High School,
where he serves as an instructional coach, academic review team member, and the
Language Arts Department Chair. He helps the state train public school teachers in
the Expository Reading and Writing curriculum and worked with IIE and Fulbright
Japan on an educational exchange focused on incorporating sustainability into
education, one of his passions. Born and raised on Kauai, Jonathon enjoys surfing
and spending time at the beach with his wife and daughters. Jonathon earned a BA
in English from the University of Portland, an MA in English from Portland State
University, and an M.Ed. from the University of Oregon.

CHAD MILLER
Dr. Chad Miller is the 2012 Hawaii State Teacher of the Year, a National Board
Certified teacher, and current Director of Teacher Development at the University of
Hawaii at Mnoas Uehiro Academy for Philosophy and Ethics in Education. In this
hybrid role, Dr. Miller teaches Philosophy for Children and Secondary English
Language Arts Methods courses in the College of Education to pre-service teachers
and serves as the Kailua High School Complexs Philosopher in Residence, where he
collaborates with K-12 teachers and helps them incorporate the activity of
philosophy into their classroom practice through the use of the Philosophers
Pedagogy. Regardless if he is thinking about the environmental implications of
driving clouds with third graders, the cyclical nature of violence and drug abuse
with sophomores, or the value of living the examined life with undergraduates, Dr. Miller finds himself
participating in extremely meaningful and rigorous philosophical inquiries with students and teachers
each day.

LORETTA LABRADOR
Loretta Labrador serves as the Language Arts Curriculum Coordinator at Kualapuu
Public Charter School on Molokai. She is also a Hope Street Group Hawaii State
Fellow. Loretta began her career as a special education teacher and deems quality
instruction and differentiation to remediate as key priorities. She will serve as the
student services coordinator at her school this year, where she also leads a number
of leadership teams. Loretta and her husband, also an educator, spend their spare
time enriching their young childrens lives with water sports, gardening, and
traveling the world. Loretta attended Ohio State University for her undergraduate
degree and went on to earn her Master of Education from Chaminade University of
Honolulu.

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DANA ISHII
Dana Ishii is a 4th grade special education teacher at Sunset Beach Elementary
School. She grew up riding horses on the North Shore, and after high school Dana
spent a year living and working in France as an equestrian. She has also worked as
an English teacher in Japan. Dana is a proud Kahuku Red Raider as well as a UHMnoa alum- with her undergraduate in Elementary and Special Education and a
M.Ed in Educational Technology. Dana has been a Hope Street Group Fellow since
2014, is currently teaching a HSTA PD course and is excited to be a part of
Elevating and Celebrating Hawaiis teachers.

SHARON LOOK
Sharon Look is a curriculum coordinator and RTI teacher at Pia School on the island of
Maui. Her previous experience includes roles as a classroom teacher and English
Language Learners coordinator. Sharon also worked for Pacific Resources for Education
and Learning as a reading specialist and designed a curriculum unit comparing Mexico
and Hawaii as part of the Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad Program. She is a
professional member of the Hawaii State Teachers Association, a Hope Street Group
Hawaii State Fellow, and is a National Board certified teacher with an emphasis in Early
Childhood. Sharon received her BA from Colgate University and her Master of Arts in
Education from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

This is our family. We always told our

children and grandchildren that education
opened doors and made the greatest of
dreams possible. Each of them were
blessed with teachers who nurtured,
challenged, encouraged, and supported
them as they they became their best
selves and found their place in the world
to grow and give back to others.
You are the teachers who are gifting the next generation, our precious great-grandchildren, with
possibilities and hope. They become stronger, more knowledgeable, curious, and compassionate
people because of you and the work you do together every day.
We thank and honor you from the bottom of our hearts.
-Dr. Kwai Lum and Ruby Choy

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ECET .HI Colleague Circles
PROBLEM OF PRACTICE

Guidance for Participants

Session Overview:
This teacher-to-teacher problem of practice session will provide a forum for a colleague to share a
common challenge that he or she is struggling with and for the group to pose questions, react,
and brainstorm and explore the feasibility of solutions. The goal of the session is to provide a
forum for the group to work together on a challenge that is central to improving the teaching
environment or classroom practice.

Session Format:
Welcome and Group Introduction
Each participant shares name/school/role.
Problem of Practice Presentation
Presenter describes his/her problem of practice to the group, including all relevant details and context for
initial questions from the group.
Clarifying Questions
The group asks clarifying questions of the presenter. Clarifying questions are factual questions with brief
responses that help the group understand the problem of practice better. They often begin with "who,
what, where, when, or how.
Probing Questions
The group asks probing questions of the presenter. Probing questions are open-ended and worded so
that they help the presenter clarify and expand his/her thinking about the problem of practice. Answers to
these questions require deeper consideration and longer answers from the presenter.
Group Discussion
Presenter listens while group discusses the problem
of practice. This is an opportunity for participants to
raise similar situations, concerns, and solutions from
their schools and districts.
Reflection and Debrief
The presenter reflects on what he/she heard from
the group, what resonated, and current thinking on
the problem of practice. Group members contribute
additional takeaways for their own districts contexts.

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Mahalo
THANKS TO our sponsors
The Herbert T. Hayashi Foundation
Hawaiian Electric Company
Honolulu Property Management
Dr. Kwai Lum and Ruby Choy
Kobayashi, Sugita, & Goda
Hawaii USA Federal Credit Union
Bank of Hawaii
In Kind Donations
Paradise Beverage
Iolani School
Janet and John Dues
Greg Minerva, he can be followed on
Facebook at Minerva Isme
Kona Rising Coffee Company
Billabong Hawaii
World Wide Tour and Travel
Dr. Austin Choy

Special Mahalo to:

Hope Street Group
NNSTOY
Kelly Miyamura
Wendy Uptain
Katherine Bassett
Mathieu Williams
Christina Torres
Elizabeth Fitzpatrick
Cameron Heen, Washington Place

ECET2.HI Planning Committee

Sharon Look | Co-Chair, Colleague Circles, Keynote
Dana Ishii | Co-Chair, Celebrations, Logistics
Chad Miller | Breakout Session
Kristen Brummel | Funding/Invites
Jonathon Medeiros | Advisory
Catherine Caine | Advisory

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