MISO
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October 6, 2017 - Seabury Hall
Updates
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Most Likely to Succeed in Hawai`i
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Please read this update to learn more about the MISO Conference including information about some of our wonderful speakers. There is also a draft of the conference schedule.
The MISO Conference 2017 will be hosted by Seabury Hall. We are honored to welcome, as our keynote speaker, the Executive Producer of the film and co-author of the book - "Most Likely to Succeed" -
Mr. Ted Dintersmith
. Ted will provoke our thinking and inspire our practice. Also on the program will be a showing of the film, "Ka Helena A`o: The Learning Walk" which documents Ted's visit to Hawaii in 2016. The film features some of Hawaii's most progressive schools. Speakers from these schools will conduct stimulating and practical breakout sessions. All this and an opportunity to network with colleagues and meet new friends.
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Featuring:
Ted Dintersmith
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When: October 6, 2017
7:30AM - 2:00PM
Where: Seabury Hall,
480 Olinda Rd, Makawao, HI 96768
Info:
Continental breakfast, Coffee break, and lunch included
Cost:
$25.00
Extra: Ted Dintersmith will host a special showing of "Most Likely to Succeed" on October 5th at Seabury Hall (more details to come)
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07:00 a.m. Registration Begins (payment and breakout session signup)
07:15 a.m. Continental breakfast at CAC
08:00 a.m. Conference Opening
- Oli
- Welcoming remarks
- Student entertainment
- Film: Ka Helena A`o: The Learning Walk - introduced by Josh Reppun
- Keynote address - Mr. Ted Dintersmith
09:45 a.m. Coffee break
10:10 a.m. Panel introductions
10:30 a.m. Breakout session #1
11:15 a.m. Transition to next session
11:30 a.m. Breakout session #2
12:30 p.m. Lunch (optional job-a-like tables)
2:00 p.m. Conference concludes
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Ted Dintersmith
Ted Dintersmith is one of America’s leaders in innovation, entrepreneurship, and education.
Ted’s professional experience includes two decades in venture capital, including being ranked by Business 2.0 as the top-performing U.S. venture capitalist for 1995-1999. He served on the Board of the National Venture Capital Association, chairing its Public Policy Committee. From 1981 to 1987, he ran a business at Analog Devices that helped enable the digital revolution. In the public sector, he was a staff analyst in 1976-78 for the U.S. House of Representatives, and was appointed in 2012 by President Obama to represent the U.S. at the United Nations General Assembly. Ted earned a Ph.D. in Engineering from Stanford University and a B.A. from the College of William and Mary, with High Honors in Physics and English.
Ted has become one of America’s leading advocates for education policies that foster creativity, innovation, motivation, and purpose. He knows what skills are valuable in a world of innovation, and how we can transform our schools to prepare kids for their futures. His contributions span film, books, philanthropy, and the hard work of going all across America. He’s funded and executive produced acclaimed education documentaries, including Most Likely To Succeed, (Sundance, AFI, and Tribeca). With co-author Tony Wagner, he wrote Most Likely To Succeed: Preparing Our Kids for the Innovation Era. During the 2015/16 school year, he went to all fifty U.S. states, meeting with governors, legislators, educators, parents, and students, and encouraging communities to work collectively to re-imagine school and its purpose.
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Bill Wicking
Bill is the Director of the Energy Lab at HPA in Kamuela on the big island, where he teaches Physics, AP Environmental Science and the course of interest this week: Independent Science Research, where students propose, develop and document a project of their own, covering brain waves, radio waves, drones, artificial intelligence, machine learning and much more. Bill has been at HPA since 2001, from his work at the Maui High Performance Computing Center in Kihei. Bill has been teaching in Hawai’i since 1980, in both public and private schools. Bill has a degree in physics from UC Berkeley, Educational Philosophy from UH Manoa, and a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the John Burns School of Medicine on Oahu. Bill lives in Kamuela with his wife Sydney and son Matthew, a very curious 8th grader at HPA.
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Brian Dote
Brian is a software engineer credited with five patents for his mobile development work on the iPhone. He was recognized as a Webby Honoree in 2009 for his web development work. Brian was employed at Apple, Inc. where he managed the MobileMe (iCloud) User Interface Engineering team and also worked on various Apple products including the iPhone, iTunes Music Store, iPhoto, iMovie, iWeb, Motion, and OS X. He spent 8 years as a software engineer, user interface designer, and manager at tech companies in and around Silicon Valley. Brian joined Mid-Pacific in 2014 as their first Chief Innovation Officer. As CIO, he is responsible for articulating a vision for technology building upon Mid-Pacific’s strength as a leader in implementing innovative and emerging technologies in the classroom.
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Kapono Ciotti
Kapono Ciotti
is the Head of School at Waialae School in Honolulu, Hawaii. As a school leader and educational consultant, Kapono’s work centers on the belief that learning is a construction of knowledge and complex understandings, and that teaching is an act of social justice. Kapono is a trained Design Thinking coach and a leader in culturally responsive strategies in Design Thinking. He has worked with public and private organizations across a variety of professional sectors to leverage Design Thinking tools to improve practice.
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Ian Kitajima
Mr. Ian Kitajima is the Director of Corporate Development and is the "Technology Sherpa" for Oceanit – a "Mind to Market" lab of 160 scientists, engineers, technologists, designers, and dreamers conducting advance research for government and private clients. If you watch James Bond movies, Oceanit is like Q's lab of scientists and engineers inventing next generation technologies. As Oceanit's Technology Sherpa, his role is to move science and technology breakthroughs from the lab to the marketplace, which has included 3 venture backed Oceanit startups - Hoana Medical, Nanopoint, and Ibis Networks. He also brings an innovation mindset to several boards including PBS Hawaii, the Public Schools of Hawaii Foundation, and Design Thinking Hawaii. He is a proud public school graduate of Castle High School, Windward Community College, and the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
www.oceanit.com
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Josh Reppun
Born and raised in Kahaluʻu, Josh Reppun is a former chef, hotel manager, teacher (17 years at Punahou, La Pietra and ‘Iolani) and tech integration specialist. He currently works as a Specialist at the Apple Store, Ala Moana. In his civic time, Josh serves as Ted Dintersmith’s MLTS Ambassador in Hawaii. Ted is the Executive Producer of the acclaimed film,
Most Likely to Succeed
. In this capacity, Josh is organizing Hawaii’s first School Retool cohort, and is co-founder of Get Stuff Done Today For Our Keiki, a “drop-in” education professional development program, among other MLTS programs. Josh is the Co-producer of
Ka Helena Aʻo: The Learning Walk
, a film about Ted Dintersmith’s first visit to Hawaii in May of 2016.
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Patricia Espíritu
Dr. Patricia Espiritu Halagao is Professor and Chair of the Department of Curriculum Studies at the
University of Hawaiʻi
at Mānoa. Her scholarship focuses on social studies and multicultural education. She received the UH Board of Regents Medal for Excellence in Teaching in 2012. She served on the Hawaiʻi State Board of Education (2013-2016), championing equity and cultural diversity and spearheaded the development of Board policies on multilingualism and the Seal of Biliteracy in schools. She received a Ph.D. in education from the University of Washington and was an elementary teacher.
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Mahealani Treaster
Papahana Ho'olauna Project Coordinator
Kanehunamoku Voyaging Academy
Kānehūnāmoku Voyaging Academy (KVA) is a nonprofit, Hawaiʻi based, 501(c)3 organization. KVA’s mission and purpose is to perpetuate the knowledge of traditional Hawaiian navigation and to provide opportunities to Native Hawaiian students to advance in contemporary ocean based careers through academic, college, and career support. The 29-foot double hull sailing canoe, is a hands-on, dynamic, and living classroom for students of all ages where students become crew and learn all aspects of sailing the canoe, including maritime skills, non-instrumental navigation, elemental observations, teamwork and communication.
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Nate Malinoski
Nate Malinoski is the Assistant School Leader at SEEQS: the School for Examining Essential Questions of Sustainability. He is a passionate educator who is excited to push the boundaries of what's possible for Hawai'i's students. He strongly believes that schools need to be places where all students feel a sense of belonging and empowerment. Nate received his MEd in School Leadership from the High Tech High Graduate School of Education, a leading project-based charter school organization, where he focused on immersive learning structures at the secondary level. As a lifelong resident of Hawai'i, Nate has a passion for systemic sustainability education. Nate also holds a BA in Interdisciplinary Studies: Environmental Design from the University of Hawai'i and brings experience in sustainable architecture, visual design, and permaculture.
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Heather Nakakura
- Education - BA in Zoology; MAT in Science Ed.
- Started teaching in 1990 as a high school science teacher.
- Joined the WHEA development team in 1993 and help start WHEA in 1994 as a "school within a school" at Konawaena High School.
- Taught at WHEA from 1994 to present as a marine biology teacher.
- Started as a co-director in 2003 and became director in 2016.
- As a founding teacher she has helped to develop WHEA's PBL curriculum which continues to focus on real world science related projects.
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Please make checks payable to: Seabury Hall and send to Cheryl Kaupalolo at:
Montessori School of Maui,
2933 Baldwin Avenue
Makawao, Maui, Hawai'i 96768
This email has been sent to MISO and Charter
School Heads - Please distribute as you wish.
A full program and additional information will be sent to all participants prior to the conference.
Please email conference facilitator, Robert Landau, at [email protected] with any questions.
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See the Trailer
KA HELENA A‘O:
THE LEARNING WALK
In May 2016, Ted Dintersmith, Producer of the documentary, Most Likely To Succeed, completed his tour of schools across all 50 states with a visit to Hawai‘i. After speaking with the Governor, the Superintendent, and other community leaders, and after visiting with numerous students, teachers, and administrators, Ted concluded that Hawai‘i could lead the way in moving education forward in ways that will engage, inspire, and celebrate student ingenuity, passion, and excellence.
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See the Trailer
"Most Likely to Succeed."
As we follow students, parents and teachers through a truly unorthodox school experience, the audience is forced to consider what sort of educational environment is most likely to succeed in the 21st century?
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A devoted group of volunteers are busily preparing for the upcoming MISO Conference. Former HAIS Executive Director, Robert Landau, has volunteered to serve as Steering Committee Coordinator. Thanks to Casey Asato from Seabury Hall who is taking the lead from our generous host school. Cheryl Kaupalolo from MOMI is coordinating registration and payments. Our Steering Committee is comprised of: Jonathan Silver (Maui Preparatory Academy); Nina Sato (Carden Academy); Judy Beneventi (Montessori Hale `O Keiki School); Tim Cullen (Saint Anthony's School); Eric Dustman (Montessori School of Maui); and Jocelyn Romero Demirbag (Waldorf Schools).
Please register at your earliest convenience by using the "Register Now" Link.
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