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Welcome to our KK Complex Equity Committee. Feedback is welcome and appreciated! Contact: Kathleen.O'Dell@k12.hi.us or Cindy Razga at Cynthia.razga@k12.hi.us
Welcome back! So excited for school year 2019-2020! We've included lots of new ideas for your classrooms and your practice in this issue. Missed any issues? Just click on the links at the top of the page for even more resources!
Welcome back! So excited for school year 2019-2020! We've included lots of new ideas for your classrooms and your practice in this issue. Missed any issues? Just click on the links at the top of the page for even more resources!
Let's talk about Anti-Bias Education this year and be
Let's talk about Anti-Bias Education this year and be
AGENTS OF CHANGE!
AGENTS OF CHANGE!
Family Engagement
Family Engagement
We had a wonderful school year 18-19 meeting with ALL of our schools around family engagement. Interested in how you can help provide culturally relevant family engagement in your classrooms and schools? Check out the resources below:
“When schools, families, and community groups work together to support learning, children tend to do better in school, stay in school longer, and like school more.”
-Anne Henderson and Karen Mapp
What to help close the achievement gap? Consider how to make family engagement events, schools, AND classrooms welcoming and accessible to families of those students at the greatest risk...or rather, students of promise.
What to help close the achievement gap? Consider how to make family engagement events, schools, AND classrooms welcoming and accessible to families of those students at the greatest risk...or rather, students of promise.
Social Justice and Anti-Bias Education Resources:
Social Justice and Anti-Bias Education Resources:
-What Happens When Schools Cause Trauma?
-What Happens When Schools Cause Trauma?
"Treating individual traumas without naming systemic injustice, Gorski explains, means schools don’t just risk leaving some traumas unrecognized; it means they risk retraumatizing students. "
"Treating individual traumas without naming systemic injustice, Gorski explains, means schools don’t just risk leaving some traumas unrecognized; it means they risk retraumatizing students. "
Sound interesting...more here.
Sound interesting...more here.
-Strategies: Toolkit for Restorative Justice
-Strategies: Toolkit for Restorative Justice
EL Updates
EL Updates
Purpose: Participants will approach the idea of differentiation of language from an asset-based perspective, collaborate to customize instruction for ELLs utilizing the WIDA ELD framework.
Date: September 12 & 13, 2019
Audience: Teachers of ELs, EL Coordinators (*mandatory if new), administrators
Location: Keolu C202
This is for ALL teachers working with EL students.
This is for ALL teachers working with EL students.
Strategies for Teaching Dual Language Learners: Click Here
Strategies for Teaching Dual Language Learners: Click Here
UNSHELTERED LIVES
UNSHELTERED LIVES
Teaching about Homelessness in Grades K-12
Breaking the Cycle of Homelessness and Poverty through Education:
Breaking the Cycle of Homelessness and Poverty through Education:
Special Education
Special Education
Some of our schools will be working with Stetson and Associates this year. Want to know more about how Stetson can help with Inclusion through design and instruction?
Some of our schools will be working with Stetson and Associates this year. Want to know more about how Stetson can help with Inclusion through design and instruction?
Resources for:
Resources for:
Would you like help with using these resources in your school or classroom? Contact our KK Complex Inclusion RT, Cindy Razga at cynthia.razga@k12.hi.us
Would you like help with using these resources in your school or classroom? Contact our KK Complex Inclusion RT, Cindy Razga at cynthia.razga@k12.hi.us
Nā Hopena Aʻo
Nā Hopena Aʻo
What are you doing around HĀ in your schools and classrooms?
Click here for the DOE site for more information:
http://www.hawaiipublicschools.org/TeachingAndLearning/StudentLearning/HawaiianEducation/Pages/HA.aspxAnd here for our KK COMPLEX SITE:
https://kailuakalaheoha.weebly.com/
Need more support in your schools or at your family engagement events? The Office of Hawaiian Education can come to you! Contact: Kaui Sang
dawn_kaui_sang@hawaiidoe.orgCommunity Resources
Community Resources
What do you need? Reach out and ASK! Community Helping Hands is a local non-profit helping students, teachers and schools.
Founded in October 2000 by Kathie Wells, a local real estate agent. Made up of individuals, the local business community, churches, other nonprofit organizations, parents, students and teachers offered their support for this program.
CHS is run completely by volunteers and is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation. Donations go directly from the community donor to the teacher and students.
SEL Resources
SEL Resources
Have you heard of The Parent Project?
Have you heard of The Parent Project?
Our own SHELLY ANDREWS, counselor from Kailua HS, leads parenting groups for teens and can also come to your schools to host parent talks :
Loving Solutions: A Parent's Guide to Raising Tough Kids Ages 5-10yrs.
Contact Shelly at Shelly.Andrews@k12.hi.us
Classroom Corner
Classroom Corner
Starting the Year Right!
Starting the Year Right!
Have you seen all of the new materials available in our district CTE LENDING LIBRARY? It's amazing!!!
Have you seen all of the new materials available in our district CTE LENDING LIBRARY? It's amazing!!!
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