Teacher Training Initiative Takes Shape Under COVID-19 Federal Grant - Honolulu Civil Beat
The initiative to develop digital lesson plans is being funded with $5 million in federal relief funds. Reading time: 5 minutes.
Hawaii community groups plan to convene dozens of local educators this summer to help build an open-source digital collection of lesson plans and teaching materials that will be free and accessible to students, teachers and parents by 2022.
Funded with half of the $10 million of a federal grant the state received last April to address pandemic-related learning loss, the effort addresses the need to develop more place-based, culturally relevant content for use in the classroom and home.
The Hawaiʻi State Department of Health (
DOH) in partnership with aio Digital and the Hawaiʻi Executive Collaborative has launched AlohaSafe Alert, the free State of Hawaiʻi-approved exposure notification app to help mitigate the spread of COVID-19. The University of Hawaiʻi encourages students and employees to utilize the AlohaSafe Alert.
Once added to a smartphone, AlohaSafe Alert will send a notification within 48 hours when an app user comes into close contact within six feet for at least 15 minutes with an individual, who is also using the app and has tested positive for the virus in the past 14 days.