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2022 HAIS Education Fair: Sept. 10
The annual HAIS Education Fair returns in-person this year at the Hawai'i Convention Center! Free and open to the public, visitors will have the opportunity to meet with participating schools, as well as attend informational sessions to help families as they prepare to apply to private schools. Topics for the Informational sessions will include: admissions tips for kindergarten and elementary school-age children, financing an independent school education and more!
Date/Time: Sept. 10, 10:00am - 2:00pm HST
Location: Hawai'i Convention Center, Room 316ABC
Cost: Free
Information
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ATLIS Cybersecurity 101 Workshop, in Partnership with HAIS
Making our schools safe from cyber attacks and identity theft can seem like a never-ending concern, especially as cybersecurity concerns for schools have only increased in recent years.
To help provide you with resources to keep your school safer against these threats, HAIS is pleased to once again partner with the Association of Technology Leaders in Independent Schools (ATLIS) for the Fall 2022 Cybersecurity 101 Workshop. This 5-hour workshop over 2 consecutive Fridays (Oct. 7 and 14) provides a framework for building a cyber safety team, and practical steps to build a culture of cyber awareness and safe practices for independent schools.
Dates/Times of Event:
Oct. 7, 9:00am - 11:30am HST
Oct.14, 9:00am - 11:30am HST
Cost: Reduced cost for HAIS Member schools - $199 (be sure to use discount code "HAIScyberpartner" to receive the reduced registration rate)
Questions: ATLIS membership (Registration is completed on the ATLIS website and all communication regarding the workshop will be forthcoming from ATLIS)
Registration
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HAIS 2022-23 Tuition Report and 2021-22 Enrollment Report Available
The 2022-23 HAIS Tuition Report has been completed, and is now available. It contains both the actual data for each member school as well as a comparative analysis.
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HAIS Admissions Directors Meeting
The first HAIS Admissions Directors Meeting of the year will take place on Thursday, September 1 from 11:00 am – 12:30 pm, on Zoom. Please email Deanna D’Olier for the meeting information or to be added to the HAIS Admissions Directors Listserv group.
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All HAIS meetings, events and programs can be found on the HAIS Calendar.
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Schools of the Future Conference
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BACK-TO-SCHOOL DISCOUNT AVAILABLE:
Register using the discount code "BACKTOSCHOOL" by August 31 to receive 12% off either a 1 or 2-day ticket!
SOTF is Returning to the Hawaii Convention Center on October 20 & 21
Registration Fees will Remain at 2019 Prices!
Standard Registration: July 1 - September 30
1-Day Ticket $225
2-Day Ticket $450
Late Registration: October 1 - the Conference
1-Day Ticket $275
2-Day Ticket $550
Leading Schools of the Future Summit on October 19 (more information below)
$85 Early Bird Rate: April - June 15
$100 Regular Registration Rate: June 16 - the conference.
Space is limited to 125 participants.
Ala Moana Hotel Group Rate
A special rate has been arranged at the Ala Moana Hotel for Schools of the Future Participants. The rate is available for rooms reserved between October 18 - 23. Use this link to make, modify or cancel reservations. Reservations can also be made by calling:
Reservations Toll Free: (800) 367-6025
Reservations Local Phone: (808) 955-4811
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Student Participation in the SOTF Conference
Call for Student Proposals
The SOTF Conference will once again include student presentations as part of the Conference offerings. Proposals will be accepted for both in-person and pre-recorded presentations, which will be made available as part of a digital program accessible only to registered SOTF attendees.
The purpose of student presentations is to give students the opportunity to "teach the teachers." Student proposals should address best teaching practices and should inspire thinking about learning from the student's perspective. All proposals can include up to 4 students and must include 1 teacher who will serve as an advisor and point person.
Presentation Formats:
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In-Person Presentations (45 Minutes). These can be a more traditional presentation, or an interactive lecture involving participant-engaged learning experiences.
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In-Person Workshops (1 Hour and 50 Minutes). Workshop sessions provide for a deeper dive exploration of a particular topic, resource, or tool. They should be dynamic and engaging, where attendees are actively participating in activities and/or discussion.
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Pre-Recorded Presentations (up to 1-hour long). These will be recorded and submitted ahead of the Conference; a TedTalk format is ideal.
All accepted student presentation groups will receive complimentary registration for the day on which their presentation will occur.
The teacher that is the primary contact for the student group is responsible for securing all necessary permissions, and adhering to their school or organization's policies and procedures for student participation in this event.
The deadline to submit proposals is September 14, and notifications of acceptance will be sent the week of September 19.
We have prepared a Proposal Planning Template to help with the submission process. Please make a copy or download this document before making any changes to it.
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Seeking Student Entertainment
We are seeking student entertainment for the SOTF Conference. Preference will be given to schools that have not offered entertainment at past SOTF Conferences, and selections will be determined on a first-come basis. If interested, please submit the student entertainment form by September 9. Please note that schools will be responsible for transportation to and from the event.
Questions? Please contact Myrna Medeiros.
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Kauai Educators who are interested in learning how to best transform our existing schools and create new learning environments for the 21st Century are encouraged to apply for the Kauai HSTE Schools of the Future (SOTF) Scholarship! Open to public, private, and charter school educators on Kauai.
Details:
10 lucky Kauai educators will win
• 2-day SOTF Conference registration
• Roundtrip airfare to Oahu
• Ground transportation to and from HNL airport
• Lodging
Requirements:
• Admin approval
• Fill out application by Sept. 4th
• Secure a sub by Sept. 23rd
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The Learner Variabilities Scholarship is still available to attend the SOTF Conference. For full details on eligibility and applications, please see the Scholarships page on the SOTF website. | |
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Keynote Speaker StoryCorps: Thursday, Oct. 20 @ 9:00
StoryCorps offers the chance to people across the U.S. to record interviews about their lives, sharing select stories through its weekly podcast, NPR broadcasts, animated shorts, and best-selling books. These stories reflect the vast range of American experiences, wisdom and values; engender empathy and connection; and remind us how much more we have in common than divides us. For more information, visit storycorps.org or follow them on social media at @storycorps.
Keynote Bio
Emily Janssen has facilitated, recorded, and archived over 500 conversations with StoryCorps, and spent 18 months traveling with the Mobile Tour to record stories. As the Director of Learning & Engagement, she develops programs and trains schools, libraries, hospitals, palliative care centers and other organizations to incorporate storytelling into their programs and honor their communities.
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Keynote Speaker Shelley Moore: Thursday, Oct. 20 @ 1:00
We are pleased to announce the return of Shelley Moore after her immensely successful keynote at the 2021 virtual Conference!
Shelley is a teacher, researcher, consultant and storyteller, and has worked with school districts and community organizations throughout Canada and the U.S. Her work is constructed based on theory and effective practices of inclusion, special education, curriculum, and teacher professional development. Her first book, “One Without the Other,” was released in July 2016 to follow up her TEDx talk. Shelley completed an undergraduate degree in Special Education at the University of Alberta, her masters at Simon Fraser University, and is currently a SSHRC funded PhD candidate at the University of British Columbia. To learn more about Shelley’s research, take a look at her graduate profile.
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Keynote Speaker Jal Mehta: Friday, Oct. 21 @ 9:00
Jal Mehta is Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. A sociologist, his work focuses on how to remake the industrial-era school system into a modern learning organization that creates passion and purpose for both students and adults. He is the author, with Sarah Fine, of "In Search of Deeper Learning: Inside the Effort to Remake the American High School." Jal is the co-director of the Deeper Learning Dozen, a community of 12 districts in the U.S. and Canada that are seeking to remake themselves for the future. Jal works with teachers, schools, and districts in the U.S. and around the world, seeking to cull wisdom from leading practitioners and share it with the field.
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Keynote Speaker Denise Pope: Friday, Oct. 21 @ 1:00
Denise Pope is a Senior Lecturer at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education, where she specializes in student engagement, curriculum studies, qualitative research methods, and service learning. She is also co-founder of Challenge Success, which partners with schools and families to implement research-based strategies that promote student well-being and engagement with learning. Denise authored "Doing School: How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Students" (Yale University Press, 2001), and is lead author of "Overloaded and Underprepared: Strategies for Stronger Schools and Healthy, Successful Kids" (Jossey-Bass, 2015). She also co-hosts the Stanford University SiriusXM radio show called “School’s In.”
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Puanani Burgess
Poet/Priest
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Frank Leto
Music Educator/Teacher Trainer
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Nadine Marchessault
Health Education Specialist, HIDOE
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Danielle Mizuta
Learning Support Specialist, Punahou School
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Jamie Nunez
Music Educator/Teacher Trainer,
Common Sense Media
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Carey Tambino
SEL Facilitator, HIDOE
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Nicole A. Tetreault
Neuroscientist, Author, Meditation Teacher
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Fern Yoshida
Educational Specialist, HIDOE
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SOTF Discounts
To request a discount code, please email Myrna Medeiros and provide her with the following:
- Name of the primary school/office contact.
- Approximate number of people who will be registering using the code.
- Anticipated registration date.
- The name of the discount code you are requesting.
Back to School Discount - 12% off either a 1 or 2-day ticket when registering with the discount code "BACKTOSCHOOL" by August 31.
Group Discount - 10% off current ticket price. Valid for any group of 10+ people from the same school.
Complex Area Discount Code - 15% off current ticket price. Valid for any DOE Complex Area that sends a group of 25 people (must be paid for by complex area).
All School PD Registration Rate - 15% off current ticket price. Valid for schools that send their entire faculty to the conference on either 1 or both days.
Presenter Discount - 100% of the current ticket price for any SOTF ticket. For the primary presenter, 1 per session. Information will be shared in the proposal notification email.
Co-Presenter Discount - 50% off the current ticket price. 1 Co-presenter(s) per session will receive a 50% discount off of either a 1-day or 2-day ticket to attend the conference. Information will be shared in the proposal notification email.
Student Presenters - K-12th graders will not be charged a registration fee (maximum of 4 students per session). The Student Call for Proposals will open later this fall.
Need help with registration or having trouble using a discount code?
Contact [email protected]
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Leading Schools of the Future Summit: Oct. 19
The Ultimate School Talk Story: Making Our Stories Matter
The Leading Schools of the Future Summit will take place at the Hawaii Convention Center on October 19, convening leadership teams from Hawaii’s Public, Private and Charter Schools. This year's Summit will focus on how the stories we tell help us understand the past and set aspirations for our future. The LSOTF Summit will explore how we, as school leaders, listen for and lift up the stories that matter to move schools forward. Schools are encouraged to bring a leadership team of 3-5 to best help connect, challenge and develop a common story.
During the event, school teams will:
• Strengthen their sense of how individual and school stories can be catalysts for future school transformation.
• Learn how to lead storytelling strategies/protocols at their schools to foster connection in service of their school goals.
• Articulate 1 or 2 steps they will take to amplify their school’s stories within the wider community.
• Be ready to maximize the full SOTF Conference experience in service of their individual and collective aspirations for their schools.
Schedule:
11:00 - 11:30: Arrival
11:30 - 12:30: Lunch and Networking
12:30 - 4:30: Leading Schools of the Future (LSOTF) Summit
4:45 - 6:30: SOTF Speaker Reception
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HTY 2022-2023 Season
The Hawai’i Theater for Youth's (HTY) 68th Season returns with live gatherings, and opens with a performance celebrating the Hawaiian experience and concludes with a brand new pop musical featuring the entire ensemble. There is something for every age and interest, and with complete flexibility to cancel or reschedule, attendees can rest easy that the HYT will put the safety of its visiting students first.
Please reach out to them directly with any questions about the shows and booking process.
Questions: HYT
Website & Upcoming Productions, 22-23 Season Brochure, Online School Reservation Request Form
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Localicious Recipe and Video Contest: Aug. 15 - Sept. 15
The Hawai’i Food & Wine Festival (HFWF) will be taking submissions for its annual Hawai’i Gas Presents Localicious® Recipe and Video Contest between Aug. 15 - Sept. 15. The Contest is a cooking competition for kids to show off their talents in the kitchen and create a unique recipe featuring a locally grown, raised or caught product. All participants will be asked to submit an original recipe with a completed dish photo and a 2-4 minute video demonstrating the recipe highlighting a local ingredient. A panel of judges will review the recipes and videos to select the top 3 recipes from 2 grade categories: Grades 4-8 and 9-12. The top 3 finalists in each grade category will be invited to prepare their dish live in front of an audience, and present their dish for tasting and scoring by 3 chef judges at the HFWF’s Localicious® Recipe & Video Contest Cookoff event in Honolulu. Cash scholarships will be awarded for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners in grades 9-12 and Apple gift cards will be awarded to 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners in grades 4-8. Winners will be announced at the live Cookoff event on October 15.
Date/Time of Contest: Aug. 15 - Sept. 15
Date of Live, Finalist Competition: Oct. 15
Submit Recipe: Online
Cost: Free
Questions: HFWF Contest
Website, Flyer
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NOAA Grant Workshop: Aug. 27
NOAA will be holding a free, one-day Grant Workshop; preparing a federal grant application can be intimidating, so NOAA has developed a workshop to address fundamental elements that need to be present in any basic proposal. This course includes information on how to review a federal funding opportunity, where to find critical information, how to represent your organization on paper, and basic fiscal details needed to assess the project. Participants will learn to find grant opportunities, create their package, and be prepared to submit through the online system.
Date/Time: Aug. 27, 9:00am - 4:00pm HST
Location: Mokupapapa Discovery Center, Hilo
Cost: Free
Questions: Stephanie Bennett
Information & Registration
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HPU Partnership Information Sessions: Sept. 15
These free 30-minute Zoom sessions will provide attendees with the information needed to utilize HPU's partnership discount - available to HAIS member school employees. There will be a short presentation followed by Q&A.
Date/Time: Sept. 15, 12:00pm and 5:00pm HST
Location: Online via Zoom
Cost: Free
Information & Registration, Flyer
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Hawaiʻi Youth Sustainability Challenge: Sept. 30
Applications are open for Kupu & Kōkua Hawaiʻi Foundation's 2022-2023 Hawaiʻi Youth Sustainability Challenge (HYSC). HYSC is a program that empowers Hawaiʻi youth to create solutions to sustainability and conservation challenges facing their schools and communities. Students in grades 9-12 across Hawai’i can apply, and will receive funding for supplies, materials, and more (up to $1,000), plus coaching and training.
There will also be 3 virtual HYSC Readiness Workshops happening in September, to better prepare potential applicants by providing support.
Workshop #1: All About HYSC - Sept. 7, 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Workshop #2: Community Partner Challenges Roundtable - Sept. 14, 5:00p - 6:30pm
Workshop #3: Defining Your Visio and Sharpening Your Ideas - Sept. 21, 5:00pm - 6:30pm
Application Deadline: Sept. 30 (Project Implementation is between November 2022 - April 2023).
Application, Readiness Workshops Registration, HYSC Flyer, HYSC Readiness Workshops Flyer, Website
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The Healer Stones of Kapaemahu Bishop Museum Exhibition: thru Oct. 16
The Bishop Museum has a new immersive exhibition, The Healer Stones of Kapaemahu, that explores the history and contemporary meaning of 4 monumental boulders on Waikiki Beach that honor the legendary mahu - people of dual male and female spirit - who brought the healing arts from Tahiti to Hawai’i long ago. Although the stones have survived for centuries, their story has been suppressed and the respected role of mahu erased from the public record.
The exhibition is part of a multifaceted educational project that also includes an historical documentary, animated short film, and children's picture book with educational guide, that aim to help restore the stones, now a City and County of Honolulu public monument, as a reminder of Hawai’i’s long history of gender diversity and inclusion.
Museum Website, Kapaemahu Website
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HPU Economics for Hawai’i Teachers Course: Apply by Oct. 23
The HPU ‘Economics for Hawaiʻi Teachers’ course will strengthen participants’ economic understanding and impart effective pedagogy to integrate economic principles into class lessons. The course provides teaching materials including videos, lessons plans, podcasts, and on-going teacher support, and is aligned with the Hawaiʻi Core Standards in Social Studies (HCSSS). Completion of the course provides three graduate level university credits. This economics course is available for professional development (PD) credit for teachers of all subjects grades K-12. No previous knowledge of economics is required.
To apply, please see the flyer for full instructions.
Date/Time of Course: Tuesdays from Oct. 15 - Dec. 12, 5:15pm - 8:10pm
Location: Aloha Market Towerplace
Cost: Free for all Hawai’i public and private school teachers, with a $200 application fee (to be refunded upon satisfactory participation).
Questions: Dr. Gerard Dericks
Application, Flyer
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Request for STEM Projects
The AFCEA HI chapter will be having its annual AFCEA Conference at the Hilton Hawaiian Village from Nov. 1 – 3, 2022. One of the goals AFCEA promotes is STEM and Cyber education; thus, during the conference, there will be a STEM room featuring projects Hawai’i students are or have been working on. AFCEA Hawai’i is currently looking for potential projects. (for example, in the past, they have invited robotics and cyber teams). STEM projects can be any grade level. If invited to feature a project, the students will not be obligated to spend all 3 days at the conference (1 day would be fine).
If interested in finding out more information about the event or submitting a STEM project, please contact Sanford Ching.
Questions: Sanford Ching
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13th Annual Inspired in Hawai’i Contest: Submit by Nov. 4
The Clarence T. C. Ching Foundation has announced its 13th Annual Inspired in Hawai’i “Acts of Kindness” 2022 Essay, Poster, Digital Media Poster and Video Contest, open to students K-12 who are residents of Hawai'i. The Foundation is awarding over $20,000 in cash prizes to winning students and their teachers. Please visit their website to view and download this year’s contest rules, contest entry and release forms, to see last year’s winners, and to learn more about the Foundation and their benefactor, Clarence T. C. Ching.
Submission Deadline: Nov. 4
Website, Flyer
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HAIS Website: Members Only Section
The HAIS website now has a Members Only section, which is available as an additional benefit to member schools. This section includes information pertaining to Accreditation, Licensing, Trainings, Reports, COVID-19, as well as General Resources. To access this part of the website, please see the Step-by-Step instructions.
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