Year In Review – Page 37 – Curriculum Research & Development Group

Google Education Brings 21st Century Styles to ULS Classrooms

As the computing world moves from stand-alone programs to cloud computing, Google for Educators (informally known as Google education) is providing a platform for this shift to take place in classrooms. The ULS faculty, along with information technology (IT) and…

Project Pono, An Environmental Stewardship Program

A new initiative in the school this year, spearheaded by science teacher Miki Tomita, is Project Pono, an environmental stewardship and service-learning elective course that provides opportunities for students to learn about and engage in practices that promote environmental awareness…

CRDG Year In Review 2010

Mission The Curriculum Research & Development Group (CRDG), with its associated Laboratory School, is an organized research unit in the College of Education at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa that contributes to the body of professional knowledge and practice…

Director’s Message

The year 2010 was a year of great change in our state, in our country, and throughout the world. Along with so many others, we spent much of the year in a process of introspection and analysis, and eventually in…

Our Roots

1895 A teacher training department is formed at Honolulu High School, located in Princess Ruth’s former mansion (now Central Intermediate School). 1896 The teacher training department moves to Victoria and Young Streets and is renamed Honolulu Normal and Training School.…

CRDG Organization

COLLEGE OF EDUCATION Donald B. Young, Dean CURRICULUM RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT GROUP Kathleen F. Berg, DirectorHelen O. Au, Assistant Director UNIVERSITY LABORATORY SCHOOL Keoni Jeremiah, PrincipalTracy Teixeira, Dean of StudentsMiki Tomita, Dean of Curriculum and Instruction Three CRDG faculty members…

X to whY: Algebra for Understanding

01. Overview: Helping students shift from arithmetic to algebra Many students experience learning difficulties in mathematics with the shift from arithmetic skills to algebraic ideas in middle and high school. Algebraic concepts and skills are the focus of instruction in…

CRDG Organization

X to whY: Algebra for Understanding

UHM CRDG staff member published as second author in The MIT Press Journals

Congratulations to CRDG’s Dean Lodes as second author on a paper published with the VR team in Presence, The MIT Press Journals. This highlights the Hōkūle‘a as the focus of the VR work and links it to classroom usage. Read article: Kilo Hōkū—Experiencing…

COE CRDG Staff Member Receives $44K Research Award from UH Sea Grant College Program

UH Mānoa College of Education (COE) Assistant Specialist Joanna Philippoff was awarded $44K from the University of Hawai‛i Sea Grant College Program. As part of the two-year grant project, Philippoff and Co-Directors Heather Spalding of the Botany Department and Craig Nelson of…

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