Each year the University Laboratory School is the focus for some of the work of the CRDG Program Research and Evaluation (PRE) Section. PRE conducts annual evaluations of the school and, using existing data, conducts small ad hoc research projects.…
National Science Foundation Project Studies FAST
2006 marked the final year of a National Science Foundation-funded project to develop an alternative to the traditional two-week professional development institute that is required of teachers who teach CRDG’s Foundational Approaches in Science Teaching (FAST) program. Laboratory School teachers…
Connections to Kaua‘i in Mathematics
The CRDG Mathematics Section worked on two professional development projects with the Kaui‘i District of the Hawai‘i DOE this year. The first, Mālama ‘ia ka Makemakika (Caring for Math), is a three-year mathematics partnership project involving the Kaua‘i District of…
Professional Development Work in Our Extended Community
Requests for professional development often come from school principals whose teachers identify a need. These requests frequently call for help with problem solving and tasks that promote higher-level thinking for students. CRDG staff traveled around the state and around the…
Mathematics Professional Development for the Leeward Complex
The CRDG Mathematics Section has partnered with the Hawai‘i DOE Leeward Complex on Bridging the Mathematical Continuum, an NCLB consolidated grant in the Nānākuli/Pearl City/Waipahu (NPW) Complex, for two of its components involving the use of technology. Participating mathematics teachers…