Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 3, Number 11, 1 November 1986 — DOE Hawaiian Studies Personnel Evaluate Program for New Year [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DOE Hawaiian Studies Personnel Evaluate Program for New Year

The first meeting of the new school year for Hawaiian Studies district personnel with the Department of Education's Office of Instructional Services staff and the curriculum and research development group from the University of Hawaii's Hawaiian Studies Program was an all day affair Sept. 16 at the Bishop Museum's Atherton Halau. DOE district educational specialists and their respective district resource teachers from throughout the v, school system as well as other resource people were on

hand for the conference headed by Robert Lokomaika'iokalani Snakenberg, Hawaiian Studies educational specialist with OIS. Objectives of this first meeting were to provide: • District and state personnel an opportunity to meet new staff members who joined the Hawaiian Studies ^ohana this year. • An update to the district coordinators and resource teachers on: — Hawaii State Board of Education's objective

relating to Hawaiian Studies. — Hawaiian Studies program evaluation. — Hawaiian Studies routine evaluation, 1986-87. — Statewide program monitoring system and scheduling. — Expansion budget request for the biennium 1987-89. Other matters of eoneem taken up at the meeting vere: • Discussion of annual inservice training schedule

and program implementation data needs. • Sharing of district plans and concerns. • Presentation of materials to district personnel. Input from the various DES and DRT personneI flowed freely and a liberal exchange of ideas and suggestions made for a very lively session to offset the very hot and humid condition in the halau. A visit to the newly redesigned and renovated Hall of Discovery followed the formal session. Pua Mills, the Museum's new curator for the hall, guided the group.

Dr. Morris Lai, standing at head table in background, of the University of Hawaii resetu-ch and development group fields questions from district resource teachers and specialists at Atherton Halau.