GK–12 Program Lauded as Exemplary The Graduate Teaching Fellowships in K–12 Education (GK–12) program is a partnership between CRDG and the Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology (EECB) program at the University of Hawai‘i. The National Science Foundation funded GK–12 program…
CRDG Summer Programs: Exploring Our Island Home
Summer Programs expanded again in 2006 to reach a broader range of students. Fueling the almost 50 percent growth in enrollment was the addition of a pair of classes for students entering the third grade and the program’s first foray…
Awards & Recognitions
Suzanne Acord received a “Pearl Harbor: History, Memory and Memorial” scholarship from the National Endowment for the Humanities of Honolulu, Hawai‘i in August of 2006. Val Krohn-Ching was awarded the Outstanding Educator Award by the Alliance for Young Writers &…
Learning Technology Moves Students into New Curriculum
The Learning Technology Section is working with eighth and ninth grade students in the University Laboratory School to develop a new curriculum in computer literacy. The course goal is to question, embrace, and challenge what students already know about computers…
Technology in the Classroom
Work began in 2005 on a research project that examines the effect of the Texas Instruments TI Navigator system on the teaching and learning of mathematics in an integrated high school curriculum. The TI-Navigator System provides wireless communication between students’…