Mission
We are an organization of world language teachers in Hawai‘i whose goal is to regularly meet to share and discuss advances in our teaching with connections to language acquisition research. See what we are up to next on our Events page.
The Team
TULIP started as an informal professional development group in the fall of 2017 with a handful of world language teachers interested in language acquisition research and its applications in the classroom. We started discussions on how to bring teacher training in comprehension-based language instruction to Hawaiʻi. Our founding members include Jeenna Canche (DOE, Maui HS, Spanish), Reed Riggs (UH Manoa, ʻIolani School, Mandarin Chinese and other languages), Ngan-Ha Ta (ʻIolani School, Mandarin Chinese), Mayra Hickling (DOE, Waipahu HS, Spanish) and Jingwoan Chang (Hanahauʻoli School, Mandarin Chinese). Since then, Lisa Larriva (DOE, Campbell HS, French) and Diana Cristina Williams (DOE, Waipahu HS, Spanish) have joined us.
In the summer of 2018, our small group partnered with the Hawaiian Association of Language Teachers to present Comprehensible Hawaiʻi, a CCLT-focused Summer Summit at UH Manoa. We are working with teacher trainers on the mainland to bring future workshops here, including one with Tina Hargaden and Justin Slocum Bailey in December 2018.
Our current team welcomes any new members interested in helping us organize gatherings and workshops related to comprehension-based language instruction.