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This blog is maintained by the Tech Support Staff at Hakipuu Learning Center to document the activities, events and operations of the school. Emails and comments are welcomed. Visit the HLC Tech Support website for more info.

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Learning is in the doing

Had a great day today learning more at the conference.  A lot of cultural information was shared today along with other topics.  I really enjoy working in a charter school system that allow staff and students to think outside the box and achieve standard credits by creating projects on topics they like.  At Hakipuu Learning Center students have the option to choose their topic of interest and staff helps to advise and guide them to learn how to find & use many different resources to research information on their topic.  The best part to me about our project base learning system is connecting every project to Hawaii's maoli culture.  It takes creative thinking to find a connection that suits every project but that's the skill that makes this type of learning very special.  Many times we are able to physically interact in our culture activities, values and experiences.  Today, we were able to participate in the unveiling of an underground oven that we Hawaiians call “Imu”.  Nice to be able to return to our roots and perpetuate our way of life and also share the experience with our guest.  Check out this short video of our Imu experience.

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

EdVisions Conference

Enjoying a week of a personalized conference By EdVisions hosted by Hakipu`u Learning Center and passionate educators sharing, learning, and experiencing new innovative ideas with practical approaches to add to our educational program.  It's really cool to be able to learn lessons through other people's experiences with students and different approaches to different curriculum & ideas.  Learning is fun for not only students but adults to and I for one are enjoying the opportunity of professional developing that this conference offers.  Mahalo EdVisions for offering this opportunity to us and especially for allowing Hakipu`u Learning Center to collaborate with you in hosting this conference.