CRDG, in a partnership with the Hawai‘i Department of Education (HDOE), began reexamining the Hawai‘i State Content and Performance Standards III (HCPS III) in the core areas of English/language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies. The primary goal of the…
ULS Alumni Return to Give Back
Darron Cambra, a 1998 graduate of the University Laboratory School, became the latest graduate to return to the Laboratory School when he joined the English section in January as a ninth grade English teacher. Matt Miller, a 1979 graduate, was…
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…
Evaluators Expanding Our Reach into Early Childhood Education
As part of a growing focus on early childhood education, a team of CRDG evaluators collaborated with the University of Hawai‘i’s Center on the Family to help evaluate the quality of early language and literacy instruction in preschool classrooms. They…
Innovation in Education
In their presentation at the 2010 Hawai‘i Charter School Administrators’ Conference in Kona, ULS teachers Marybeth Baldwin and Brendan Brennan offered this compelling thought on technology in education: “Up to this point we have been very successful at inadequately preparing…