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The UH Mānoa College of Education Alumni Association (COEAA) is excited to share that Kevin Agtarap, a Computer Science teacher at Kaʻimiloa Elementary School, has been selected to participate in the prestigious Fulbright Teachers for Global Classrooms program for the 2024–2025 cycle. This Fulbright award, granted by the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, recognizes outstanding educators who are dedicated to integrating global competencies into their classrooms.
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Big Mahalo to everyone who braved the rain to join us at Discover UH Mānoa! 🌧️ We loved connecting with so many of you, from future educators to those already shaping young minds. Grateful for the opportunity to share resources, inspire, and help our teachers continue growing. Here’s to a brighter future in education, rain or shine! 🌈📚 #DiscoverUHManoa #FutureEducators #ThankYou #UHManoa #CollegeOfEducation #COE #SMAP #LoveWhatYouTeachatUHM #UHM-azing
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Students in School of Teacher Education (STE) Cohort 407 participated in a huakaiʻi (excursion) at Dolphin Quest Oʻahu. The 14 teacher candidates prepped for the huakaiʻi in STE 317 (level 3 elementary field experience) and STE 323 (elementary science) by drafting a science lesson plan about marine life or sustainability, enacting it in the field, and then reflecting on how it went.
The lesson included group rotations in which candidates rotated through three centers: (1) comparing and contrasting dolphins and sharks, (2) training dolphins and understanding animal behavioral psychology, and (3) observing the length of different marine animals.
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Rochelle Piʻilani Hussey Kaʻaloa, a two-time College of Education (COE), has been selected as the Interim Associate Dean of Graduate Division at UH Mānoa. With the university since 2001, she worked as a COE Department of Curriculum Studies grant coordinator before serving as an associate specialist at the Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies for the last 21 years.
“This new appointment is exciting for me as I was the Graduate Chair in Hawaiian Studies for over 13 years,” Kaʻaloa said. “This experience allowed me a front seat view to the empowerment of graduate level scholarship for my students’ careers, families, and communities. I am honored to be in a position now to contribute to campus-wide graduate level program support, opportunities, and initiatives while adding my unique lens as a native Hawaiian educator and a learning, design, and technology practitioner.”
Read more about Ka‘aloa's journey! bit.ly/3YBIHtK
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Bryan Silver, a COE alumnus of the Post Baccalaureate Certificate in Secondary Education and Special Education at the UH Mānoa College of Education, and currently a science and Career and Technical Education (CTE) teacher at Kalani High School, was named the 2025 Hawaiʻi State Teacher of the Year!
“I am grateful to my colleagues and administration who supported so many of my crazy initiatives of getting kids out of the classroom and getting their hands dirty in the real world while embracing the mess of authentic learning and failure,” Silver said. “Success is an accumulation of learning from mistakes.”
Silver will represent Hawaiʻi in the National Teacher of the Year program this spring in Washington, D.C.
Picture credit: Hawai‘i Department of Education
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UH Mānoa has now launched a sensory room located at Kuykendall Hall 106 in the Office of Faculty Development and Academic Support in partnership with the Center on Disability Studies and our research to support student success through professional development on inclusive practices.
This initiative, funded by the UH Foundation and the Oak Foundation, brings a 13 item sensory room to campus along with a free online course—“CAMP+U” for faculty, staff, and administrators focused on disability awareness, Universal Design for Learning, educational technology to support learner agency, strategies to strengthen classroom belonging, as well as sensory integration.
The sensory room is open to faculty, staff and students on Monday throughout the semester from 9am-4pm, including for instructor-led classroom visits!
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