CRDG Organization

COLLEGE OF EDUCATION

Donald B. Young, Dean

CURRICULUM RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT GROUP

Kathleen F. Berg, Director
Helen O. Au, Assistant Director

UNIVERSITY LABORATORY SCHOOL

Keoni Jeremiah, Principal
Tracy Teixeira, Dean of Students
Miki Tomita, Dean of Curriculum and Instruction


 

Congratulations Dean Young

don youngIt was with bittersweet congratulations that CRDG bid Director Don Young farewell as he left to take on the position of dean of the College of Education. While we will miss his leadership in CRDG, we are happy for him and wish him well in his new role.

Young first came to CRDG in 1971 and became an integral part of the CRDG science section where he co-authored ground-breaking and award-winning inquiry-based science programs. e middle-school program Foundational Approaches in Science Teaching (FAST) and the elementary program Developmental Approaches in Science, Health & Technology together span a nine-year science sequence that teaches basic science concepts through inquiry methods. Both programs included a twoweek teacher professional development institute to teach the inquiry methods that few teachers had learned or experienced at that time. Young’s expertise, in particular, involved the dissemination and implementation, and later the scaling-up, of the professional development program.

In 1998 Young moved to the position of CRDG associate director, then became director of CRDG in 2003. In this role, he guided CRDG through a time of tremendous change in the education community with great insight, energy, and compassion. His door was always open and his support unwavering as we all worked to navigate the changes in our field. He leaves us now a stronger organization for his leadership, and we count ourselves fortunate to have him in the role of dean of our college.


 

Three CRDG faculty members were honored at the May 2012 meeting of the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa College of Education’s Congress.

 

frankDr. Francis Pottenger III received the 2012 COE Lifetime Achievement Award. Pottenger joined CRDG in 1966, where he led the science faculty in the creation of award winning inquiry- based curricula for elementary and secondary school science. His groundbreaking Developmental Approaches in Science, Health and Technology (DASH), a six-year sequence for elementary school; Foundational Approaches in Science Teaching (FAST), a three-year middle school program; and e Fluid Earth/e Living Ocean, a high school marine science course, have been used in Hawai‘i, throughout the mainland United States, and internationally. Over the course of his career Pottenger has engaged in science curriculum collaboration and experimentation with colleagues in Japan, Korea, Russia, Australia, and New Zealand. CRDG His nomination for the award read, in part, “For the last 45 plus years, Dr. Pottenger’s work in science education as part of CRDG can only be described as extraordinary, innovative, seminal, diverse, impactful, cross-national, collaborative, award-winning.”

paulDr. Paul Brandon was the recipient of the 2012 COE Exceptional Contributions to Scholarship Award. Brandon has been with CRDG since 1989 as a professor of education with a focus on research and evaluation. He has published several evaluation instruments that have been developed and validated in projects and regularly serves as a consultant on developing research and evaluation designs. He has won two best evaluation awards from the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and was selected by the AERA Research on Evaluation Special Interest Group as their first annual Distinguished Scholar in April 2011. Beginning January 2013, he will serve a three-year term as Editor-in-Chief of the American Evaluation Association’s topical journal, New Directions for Evaluation. CRDG Director Kathleen Berg wrote that “I nominated Paul for this award based on recent awards and recognitions that come on the heels of an already outstanding, long, and productive scholastic career. He is most deserving of an award for his scholarship, which is well-respected both locally and nationally.”

trucDr. Truc Nguyen was awarded the 2012 COE Leadership Award. Nguyen’s role within CRDG as a faculty member in Learning Technologies includes authoring and teaching science and computer literacy courses; developing instructional strategies for existing science curricula; overseeing the development of science, economics, and computer distance-learning courses; developing evaluation and assessment modules; and coordinating professional development workshops and conferences. is year, she also chaired the College of Education Faculty Senate, represented the college on the Manoa Faculty Senate, led the Faculty Distributed Learning Advisory Committee on the All Campus Council of Faculty Senate Chairs, and served as president of the Hawai‘i Educational Research Association (HERA). Her nomination for this award read, in part, “She exemplifies exceptional leadership that demonstrates commitment in ways that move programs, departments, units, and the entire college in positive directions.”

In Memorium

ednaSister Edna Louise DeManche, a Sacred Heart’s sister and giant in Hawai‘i’s science education community, died this year at the age of 96. Her love of both religion and science, and her ability to bridge the two, would be one of the defining themes of her life. Sister Edna entered the Maryknoll convent in New York in 1934, and she took her final vows and completed her bachelor’s of science degree in zoology in 1940. She came to Hawai‘i that same year to teach at Maryknoll School. Over the next six decades she contributed to science education in Hawai‘i as a teacher, a curriculum developer, a leader in the Hawaiian Academy of Science where she served as executive secretary and director of the annual Marine Symposium, and associate superintendent of the Catholic School Department. Sister Edna worked as a curriculum developer at CRDG from 1967 until 1980 and is most well known as the author of the Hawai‘i Nature Study program and for her contributions to CRDG’s signature middle school science program Foundational Approaches in Science Teaching (FAST).


 

willLongtime science educator Will University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa College of Education (COE) Professor Will Kyselka passed away on July 1, 2012. With the COE for more than 30 years, Kyselka devoted his career to teaching, mentoring, and developing curriculum. A revered geology and astronomy expert, he co-authored the Foundational Approaches in Science Teaching program that is internationally recognized as an exemplary middle school science program. Kyselka, who came to Hawai‘i a few years after graduating from the University of Michigan with BS and MS degrees in geology and an MA in education, was on the science education faculty in the COE and joined the Curriculum Research & Development Group (CRDG) when it was formed in the late 1960s. In 1966, he was appointed an associate in astronomy at the Bishop Museum where he conducted lectures at the planetarium. His life-long friendship with Nainoa Thompson would begin there. In An Ocean Mind, Kyselka recorded the problem-solving and learning process that Thompson went through in learning to non-instrument navigation. Kyselka and his wife, Lee, were on the escort vessel Ishka that accompanied Hōkūle‘a on its 1980 maiden voyage, and Will was on board the Hōkūle‘a during part of its 1986 Voyage of Discovery. In a Polynesian Voyage Society (PVS) announcement about Kyselka’s passing, Thompson said, “He has been one of the most important and crucial teachers that we have had in the whole 37-year journey of rediscovering our voyaging knowledge.”

Leila (Lee) Kyselka died this year at the age of 95 following a lifetime spent in social service and education. She moved to Hawai‘i from Oregon in the mid-1960s where she worked on teen programs at the Windward and Nu‘uanu YMCAs. She came to CRDG later in her career as director of the Summer Science program. She also lectured in the Women in Transition program at Leeward and Windward Community Colleges. She became involved in the Polynesian Voyaging Society along with her husband Will, and sailed on the escort vessel for the Hokule‘a’s 1980 voyage to Tahiti.

Staff

Abhari, Maryam
Mathematics (Graduate Assistant)
BS 2006, BS 2010, Hawai‘i
Afaga, Lorna
Program Research and Evaluation
BA 1977, MPH 1981, Hawai‘i
Asato, Darrell
Marketing and Publication Services
BFA 1979, Hawai‘i
Au, Helen
Marketing and Publication Services
BBA 1993, MEd 2006, PhD 2012
Hawai‘i
Berg, Kathleen F.
Administration
BEd 1973, PD 1973, MEd 1980, PhD
1992, Hawai‘i
Bossler, Amy
Administration (Graduate Assistant)
BA Anth 2006, Bucknell; MEd 2008,
Hawai’i
Brandon, Paul
Program Research and Evaluation
BS 1970, Portland State; MEd 1978,
PhD 1983, Hawai‘i
Brennan, Carol Ann
Science, Early Childhood Education
BA 1965, Catholic University of
America; MS 1984, Nebraska; EdD
1996, Hawai‘i
Cagaoan, Emma
Administration
AS 1980, Kapi‘olani Community
College
Capen, Stephanie
Mathematics (Graduate Assistant)
BS 2010, Eastern Nazarene College
DaSilva, Maria
Science
BA 1990 Antioch; BA 2006 Hawai’i
Devore, Susanne
Administration (Graduate Assistant)
BA 2003, Pittsburgh
Dunn, Hugh
Literacy and Hawaiian Education
BEd 1990, MEd 1999, Hawai‘i
Erwin, Katherine
Editorial
BA 2009, Hawai’i
Faure, Laurie
Science
BA 1994, San Jose State; MEd 2005,
Hawai’i
Fujii, Alycia
Marketing and Publication Services
BA 1996, Hawai‘i
Fukata, Laverne
Administration
BA 1976, Hawai‘i
Fulton, Lori
Science
BEd 1992, Western Michigan; MEd
1993, New Mexico; MA 2004, UNLV;
PhD 2012, UNLV
Gill, Kevin
Learning Technologies
Hamasaki, Brian
Administration
BBA 1997, Washington State; MBA
2004, Hawai‘i
Harrison, George
Program Research and Evaluation
BA 1994, UC Santa Cruz; MA 2002,
Hawai‘i
Hashimoto, Valerie
Science
BS 1993, Hawai‘i Pacific; MAEd 2003,
Phoenix
Hayden, Marcus
Administration
BAS 2001, MBA 2007, Hawai‘i
Higa, Terry Ann
Program Research and Evaluation
BEd 1977, MEd 1978, PD 1984, MEd
1994, PhD 2005, Hawai‘i
Inouye, Byron
Learning Technologies
BFA 1993, Hawai‘i
Jumawan, Francisco
Learning Technologies (Graduate Assistant)
AS 1991, Electronics Institute; BS
2006, MEd 2011, Hawai‘i
Kaupp, Lauren
Science
BS 2003, Maryland-Baltimore County;
MS 2005, Hawai‘i
Kido, Lillian
Literacy and Hawaiian Education
BA 1971, Hawai‘i
Klemm, E. Barbara
Science
BA 1964, Ohio Wesleyan; MEd 1972,
EdD 1982, Hawai‘i
Klenske, Terry
Science
BA 1972, Pacific; SpEd 1974, Alberta
Lai, Morris
Literacy and Hawaiian Education
BS 1965, Stanford; MA 1967, Hawai‘i;
PhD 1972, UC Berkeley
Lawton, Brian
Program Research and Evaluation
BA 2001, Nevada; MEd 2005, Hawai‘i
Lee, Aaron
Marketing and Publication Services
BFA 1999, Hawai‘i
Leong, Jaret
Marketing and Publication Services
Lewis, Jeanine
Administration
BS 1993, CSU-Chico; MA 2003
San Francisco State
Liebengood, Fawn
Learning Technologies
BA 2010, Hawai‘i
Lurie, Matthew
Science (Graduate Assistant)
BS 2005, UCLA; MS 2010, Hawai‘i
Lush, Noren
Social Studies
BA 1974, Franklin; MA 1988, Hawai’i
Mark, Lauren
Learning Technologies (Graduate
Assistant)
BS 2001, Washington; MA 2009,
Hawai‘i
Nakama, Robert
Information Technology
BBA 2006, Hawai‘i
Nakamura, Aric
Program Research and Evaluation
BA 2004, Hawai‘i
Narimasu, Bert
Marketing and Publication Services
BA 1976, MFA 1993, Hawai‘i
Nguyen, anh Truc
Learning Technologies
BA 1996, MEd 2000, Hawai‘i; EdD
2007, Southern California
Olson, Judith
Mathematics
BS 1968, Valley City State; MST 1981,
Wyoming; EdD 1985, Oklahoma State
Olson, Melfried
Mathematics
BS 1968, Valley City State; MS 1972,
Arkansas; EdD 1975, Oklahoma State
Oshiro, Elliot
Program Research and Evaluation
BA 1981, PD 1987, Hawai‘i
Paek, Seungoh
Learning Technologies
BA 2000, Med 2002 Sungshin Women’s
University; Med 2010, MS 2012, EdD
2012 Columbia
Philippoff, Joanna
Science
BA 2002, Delaware; MS 2011, Hawai‘i
Pottenger, Francis
Science
BS 1951, Otterbein; MEd 1957, Xavier;
MS 1964, New Mexico Highlands; PhD
1969, Claremont Graduate School
Pottenger, Larma
Editorial
BA 1950, Otterbein
Ramos, Rosemarie
Clerical
AS 1976, St. Ferdinand
Romero, Gary
Information Technology
BS 1986, DeVry
Sagaysay, Lolito
Program Research and Evaluation
BBA 1982, Hawai‘i
Saka, Susan
Program Research and Evaluation
BS 1980, BBA 1980, MEd 1994, Hawai‘i
Scarlett, Thomas
Science
BEd 1973, MEd 1980, MEd 1997, PhD
2008, Hawai‘i
Scott, Neil
Learning Technologies
BE 1970, DSc 2006, Canterbury
University
Seraphin, Kanesa
Science
BS 1999, Cal Poly; MS 2004, PhD 2005,
PBSCE 2008, Hawai‘i
Shimabukuro, Erin
Administration
BEd 2001, Hawai‘i
Shiraishi, Jana
Marketing and Publication Services
BA 2011, Hawai‘i
Shishido, Wayne
Marketing and Publication Services
BFA 1972, Hawai‘i
Shon, James
Standards Streamlining Project
BA 1969, Syracuse; PhD 2001, Hawai‘i
Slovin, Hannah
Mathematics
BA 1966, Pennsylvania; MEd 1970,
Temple; EdD 1996, Hawai‘i
Subedi, Lilette
Literacy and Hawaiian Education
BFA 1977, BA 1977, MA 1989, Hawai‘i
Tassill, Leah
Social Studies
BA 2011, Hawai‘i
Tokuhama, Raemi
Learning Technologies
BS 2006, Portland State
Towata, Carolyn
English
BEd 1967, 5-yr Diploma 1968, MEd
1968, Hawai‘i
Vallin, Lisa Michaela
Program Research and Evaluation
(Graduate Assistant)
BA 2006, MA 2008, San Francisco
State
Venenciano, Linda
Mathematics
BA 1993, MAT 1994, Pacific; PhD
2011, Hawai‘i
Ward, Lori
Editorial
BA 1983, MA 2012, Hawai‘i; MNM
2002, Regis
Watts, Margit
Manoa Partnerships
BA 1970, Michigan; MSW 1974, PhD
1989, Hawai‘i
Yang, Fan
Science (Graduate Assistant)
BS 2003, Beijing; MEd 2010, Peking;
MS 2011, Wilkes
Yap, Mark
Information Technology
BA 2001, Hawai‘i
Yonemoto, Kory
Administration
BA 2005, Hawai’i
York, Susan E.
Program Research and Evaluation
BA 1992, MA 1994, MEd 2001, PBCSE
2007, Hawai‘i
Young, Donald B., Jr.
Administration
BS 1968, MS 1969, SUNY; EdD 1986,
Hawai‘i
Zenigami, Fay
Mathematics
BEd 1974, PD 1975, MEd 1975, Hawai‘i
BA 2006, MA 2008, San Francisco
State