The Hawai‘i Elementary and Middle School Administrators Association (HEMSAA) named Jennifer Pimentel, vice principal at Lāna‘i High & Elementary, as Hawai‘iʻs 2024 National Outstanding Assistant Principal. In the Distinguished Principali category, Molokaʻi’s Daniel Espaniola, principal of Kaunakakai Elementary was a finalist as the Maui District honoree.
The organization that oversees the Good News Clubs in public elementary schools has sued Hawaiian education officials, accusing them of unlawfully blocking their student clubs from operating in four local school districts.
The organization that oversees the Good News Clubs in public elementary schools has sued Hawaiian education officials, accusing them of unlawfully blocking their student clubs from operating in four local school districts.
June 29, 2021
On a recent Tuesday, 14 students sat on pieces of cardboard spaced several feet apart in a shaded patch of lawn at Honolulu s Washington Middle School. In front of each student was a frond from a coconut tree.
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The middle schoolers watched as Jendrick Paul, founder and executive director of the Marshallese Community Organization of Hawaii, demonstrated how to create a basket out of the thick leaves.
The basket, known as enra, is a traditional vessel used to carry and transport food in the Marshall Islands. It s formed by fusing together two similarly woven plates, which these students had learned how to make in a previous class.
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