Year In Review 2005 – Page 4 – Curriculum Research & Development Group

Invention Factory 2005

CRDG and the Archimedes project, under the guidance of Tom Speitel and Neil Scott, have begun work on the Invention Factory, a three-year, $900,000 project funded by the National Science Foundation. The program will teach information technology to teenagers by…

Arts Education in Windward Schools

Faculty from CRDG’s Program Research and Evaluation (PRE) and Art Sections have teamed with the Hawai‘i Alliance for Arts Education to conduct a U.S. Department of Education funded project that uses strategies from the visual and performing arts to teach…

Supporting Partnerships to Assure Ready Kids (SPARK)

As a partner in the SPARK (Supporting Partnerships to Assure Ready Kids) project, CRDG continued its work with early elementary children in the Wai‘anae and Keaukaha areas in 2005. In its second year, SPARK is an initiative of the W.…

21st Century Community Learning Centers

The 21st Century Community Learning Centers program, as mandated in the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, establishes community centers in Hawai‘i schools that provide academic enrichment and other services and activities designed to reinforce and complement the regular…

Transitions to Teaching

The College of Education and CRDG have teamed up with the College of Tropical Agriculture & Human Resources, and the Hawai‘i Department of Education to address the shortage of mathematics and science teachers in Hawai‘i’s secondary schools. The five-year, federallyfunded…

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…

Category: Year In Review 2005 (page 4)