Instructor
Elizabeth Gilliland (Second Language Studies), egillila@hawaii.edu

Course Dates / Format / CRN
June 16 to July 25  /  Online Synchronous  /  CRN: 4143

Meeting Days & Times
Tuesdays & Thursdays, 1:00pm – 4:10pm

Description

EDCS/SLS 644 Multilingual/ EL Pedagogy examines practices, theories, research, and perspectives on multilingual/ EL teaching approaches.  Topics include culturally and linguistically responsive approaches, collaboration, lesson planning, and adapting materials to promote the growth and development of multilingual/ EL learners. (cross-listed as SLS 644).

* Contact Elizabeth Gilliland (egillila@hawaii.edu) to receive an override code.

Elizabeth Gilliland is a Professor in the Department of Second Language Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Her research examines multilingual adolescents’ academic language and writing development as well as language teachers’ learning to conduct classroom research. She is particularly interested in the experiences of young people who have attended US schools for many years and their transitions into mainstream and college writing. She is also interested in how language teachers learn to conduct research on their teaching through the methodology of classroom action research. Her current research analyzes action research studies conducted by teachers enrolled in a graduate course she taught on action research here in Hawaiʻi and during the SLS teaching practicum in Thailand. She also considers the influences of state and national education policy on curriculum and teacher preparation around secondary school second language writing..

Instructor
Christina Higgins

Course Dates / Format / CRN
June 16 – July 25  |  Online Synchronous  |  CRN: 93039

Meeting Days / Times 
Mondays & Wednesdays  | 1:00pm – 4:30pm

Description

This course introduces students to concepts, theories, policies, and practices of multilingual language use (spoken and written), supported by multicultural orientations and practices, within the contemporary context of Hawaiʻi as a society with substantial linguistic and cultural diversity, including indigenous populations, homegrown Pidgin speakers, sojourners and tourists, the results of successive waves of migration, colonization, and globalization. Through recognizing Hawaiʻiʻs unique features, the course also locates Hawai’i within a world in which multilingualism and multiculturalism have become (or always were) the norm in many communities.

The course will be of interest to graduate students with professional interests in language, arising from professional schools or areas such as education, law, social work, medicine, or business as well as those primarily interested in languages, multilingualism, multiculturalism, and applied linguistics.

* Contact Christina Higgins (cmhiggin@hawaii.edu) to receive an override code.

Christina Higgins is a sociolinguist who researches multilingualism from a social perspective. She has primarily focused on multilingual practices outside of educational settings in East Africa and Hawaiʻi. She has used discourse analytic, ethnographic, and qualitative approaches to investigate identities, intercultural communication, ideologies, and the relationship between language and place. Dr. Higgins strives to be a sociolinguist for the “real world” and to engage in scholarship that will effect positive change in society. Her current projects include a crowd-sourced, citizen science linguistic landscape study, a collaborative redesign of the linguistic and semiotic landscape of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s campus, with attention to Hawaiian history, language, culture, and geography, and a collaboration with UHM film students to produce short films that feature Pidgin, the creole language of Hawaiʻi. Dr. Higgins is the Director of the Charlene Junko Sato Center for Pidgin, Creole, and Dialect Studies.

Instructors
Charlotte Frambaugh-Kritzer, kritzer@hawaii.edu
Stephanie Buelow, buelow@hawaii.edu

Description
This course provides Hawaii Writing Project (HWP) teacher participants with practical, application-oriented support for enhancing their classroom writing instruction. It is designed to help K–12 in-service teachers understand and experience the writing process, writing traits, writing modes and writer’s workshop and to discuss and learn best writing practices, develop relevant writing curriculum for their classrooms, and understand and practice assessment of writing. The learning environment incorporates a range of engaging activities, including, whole and small group work, guest speakers, teacher lesson demonstrations, and hands-on application for K-12 classrooms.

EDCS 604 Course Format
EDCS 604 combines synchronous and asynchronous online instruction to achieve course goals. All synchronous class sessions take place on the Zoom platform. It also utilizes Laulima (course management system) where all course content is accessed.

Meeting Times*
We will meet “live” on the following dates/times via Zoom:

• Wednesday, May 21 | 4:30 pm-7:00 pm HST
• Wednesday, May 28 | 4:30 pm-7:00 pm HST
• June 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 12 | 8:30 am-3:00 pm HST
• Wednesday, August 13 | 4:30 pm-6:00 pm HST
• Wednesday, August 20 | 4:30 pm-6:00 pm HST
• Wednesday, August 27 | 4:30 pm-6:00 pm HST
• Wednesday, October 15 | 4:30 pm-7:00 pm HST

*Participants will also engage in asynchronous participation in Laulima throughout the course.

Cost
Outreach College Fee for 6 UH graduate credits (participants are responsible for an administrative fee of approximately $142, subject to change).

EDCS 604 Prerequisite
This course requires that all students apply to and are accepted to the Hawaii Writing Project Invitational Summer Institute.  Applications are due Sunday, February 23, 2025.  For more information on the application process, please see our flier or visit the Hawaii Writing Project Website.

Charlotte Frambaugh-Kritzer is a Professor of Secondary Literacy Education at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa College of Education. She began her National Writing Project journey when she served as the Co-Director of the Cal State San Marcos Writing project from 2001-2003. This solidified her love for supporting teachers in finding their writing voices and writing instructional methods. She now serves as the Co-Director of the Hawaii Writing Project (HWP) and has been teaching the HWP Invitational Summer Institute since 2017. As a former middle school teacher, she directly connects her experiences from the classroom to her current research and the courses she teaches in teacher education (all things related to literacy). She is also a researcher, some of her research work has appeared in the Journal of Language and Literacy Education, Journal of Literacy Practice & Research, Action in Teacher Education, Middle School Journal, and Yearbook of the Literacy Research Association.

Stephanie Buelow is the Program Chair for Undergraduate & Post-Baccalaureate Programs in the School of Teacher Education and an Associate Professor of Literacy Education at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa College of Education. Dr. Buelow is the Co-Director of the Hawaii Writing Project and has been teaching the HWP Invitational Summer Institute since 2017. Her current work is focused on teacher preparation and literacy leadership. She teaches undergraduate literacy methods courses in a field-based teacher preparation program and graduate courses in literacy coaching and effective writing practices. Dr. Buelow’s research interests lie in disciplinary literacies, new literacies, and teacher learning and development. She draws upon twelve years of elementary teaching and literacy coaching experience in culturally, linguistically, and socioeconomically diverse schools to ground her work as a teacher educator.

Instructor
Ivee Cruz

Course Dates/ Delivery/ CRN
July 1-19 (Accelerated Online Synchronous)  CRN: 4071

Meeting Days & Times
Monday to Friday |  9:00 am – 12:00 pm

Description

This course introduces educators, community leaders, and professionals in related fields to important concepts, theories, and pedagogies of Social Emotional Learning (SEL). Topics include frameworks and skills, such as self-awareness, social awareness, self-management, responsible decision making and relationship skills. The influence of family, culture, education, work, peers, relationship, and the media as it relates to SEL will be explored with an emphasis on culture, social justice, and equity in Hawai’i and our global community.  Cross-listed with KRS/DIS 650.

Ivee Cruz is an educator, facilitator, counselor, advisor, and instructor. She holds a BA in Global & International Studies and Sociology from the University of California Santa Barbara. She has a MA in International Educational Development from Teachers College, Columbia University and is currently pursuing a PhD in Education at the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa. Her work bridges culture, diversity, spirituality, social justice, youth leadership, mindfulness and consciousness within the field of education.

Instructor
Dr. Amanda Smith

Course Dates / Meeting Days / Meeting Times / CRN
May 27 – July 3  |  Tuesdays and Thursdays (Online Synchronous) |  4:30 pm – 7:00 pm  |  CRN: 4142

Description
Methods of qualitative research in education or related social science from an interdisciplinary framework.

Dr. Amanda Smith is an Associate Professor of Literacy Education at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Her interdisciplinary work focuses on the use of participatory sensory ethnographic and arts-based methods to investigate youth artistic making, literacy networks, multimodality, and how literacies can be made visible, represented, and understood. Her aim in both research and teaching is to create a more equitable future for young people by expanding notions of what counts as literacy through valuing all ways of knowing and being. She has a PhD in Curriculum, Instruction, and Teacher Education as well as a graduate certificate in Qualitative Research Methods from Michigan State University

Instructor
Dr. Brooke Taira

Course Dates / Meeting Days / Meeting Times / CRN
May 27 – July 3  |  Wednesdays (Online Asynchronous & Synchronous)  |   Synchronous Days: 5/28, 6/4, 6/11, 6/18, 6/25, & 7/2 |  3:00 pm – 6:00 pm  |  CRN: 4181

Description
K-14 curriculum trends and issues related to school organization, program, administration, faculty. Required for Plan B MEd candidates in their final semester or summer session.

Dr. Brooke Taira is an Associate Professor of Literacy Education at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Her research focuses on literacy and migration, specifically the experiences and literacy practices of newcomer and refugee students in secondary English classrooms. Her work explores the potential of asset-based and culturally responsive teaching approaches to create inclusive and engaging literacy classrooms. She has a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction with a focus in Literacy Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Instructors
Dr. John Creswell

Course Dates / Delivery / Meeting Times / CRN
July 14 – July 26  |  In-Person |  9:00am – 1:00pm  |  CRN: See below**

Course dates
July 14 – July 26 (In-Person)

* Students will submit a one-page overview of a proposed project [draft title, problem, data collection (quan and qual), and how they propose to use the project (dissertation proposal, class research project, academic journal article, fun study, etc.)] on the first day of class to Dr. Cresswell (creswell@med.umich.edu).

** Department Chair and Student Advisor approvals are required for CRN. Please contact Dept. Chair, Dr. Patricia Halagao at phalagao@hawaii.edu.

Course Format
In-Person

Description
Mixed methods research is designed for advanced PhD students in education and social sciences considering combining qualitative and quantitative research. Covers philosophical and practical implications culminating in a mixed methods dissertation/thesis proposal.

John Creswell is a professor of family medicine and co-director of the Michigan Mixed Methods Program at the University of Michigan. He has authored numerous articles and 28 books on mixed methods research, qualitative research, and research design. He founded SAGE’s Journal of Mixed Methods Research. In 2014, he was the President of the Mixed Methods International Research Association and co-authored the American Psychological Association “standards” on qualitative and mixed methods research.

Instructor
Dr. Keanu Sai

Course Dates / Meeting Days & Times / CRN
May 27 – July 3, 2025  |  MWF: 0:00 am – 0:00 am  |  CRN*

* This course is being offered as a college administrative fee only through the NHSS Summer Institute program. Please contact Nalani Balutski to apply, register, and for any questions at balutski@hawaii.edu.

Description
This course covers the origins and features of the Hawaiian State. Starting with Hawai‘i’s roots as a navigator society, this course explores the island kingdoms of Kaua‘i, Maui and Hawai‘i island. Detailed interaction between Hawaiians and navigators from other countries around the world such as Cook and Vancouver open up an investigation through the reign of Kamehameha I and II. Kamehameha III’s decision to establish a constitutional monarchy, achieve State recognition and develop a modern nation State are examined further through the eighty-eight year period of Hawaiian governance. The course will then examine, through political science and law, the continuity of the Hawaiian State despite the illegal overthrow of its government by the United States on January 17, 1893, and the significance of the Larsen v. Hawaiian Kingdom arbitration held at the Permanent Court of Arbitration, The Hague, Netherlands from 1999-2001.

Keanu Sai is a political scientist and lecturer at the University of Hawai‘i Windward Community College, Political Science and Hawaiian Studies, and affiliate faculty member at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa’s College of Education. He also served as Agent for the Hawaiian Kingdom at the Permanent Court of Arbitration, The Hague, Netherlands, in Larsen v. Hawaiian Kingdom, PCA case no. 1999-01. Dr. Sai received his Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in political science specializing in international relations and law from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.

Instructors
Dr. Larson Ng (Lng@hawaii.edu) & Dr. Kimo Cashman (Kcashman@hawaii.edu)

Course Dates / CRN
May 27 – July 3, 2025 (Online)  |  CRN: 93191

Meeting Days & Times
Mondays & Wednesdays  |  4:30 pm – 7:00 pm  |  Asynchronous

Only May 29, June 2, 5, 9, 12, 16, & 19  |  4:30 pm – 7:00 pm  |  Synchronous

Description
In a joint partnership with the Hawaiian Education and Leadership Initiative, Aloha Kumu, Native Hawaiian Students Services, and both the CS & STE departments, this college administrative fee only course will focus on Aloha ʻĀina (Love for “place” and people; Hawaiian national consciousness) as a foundation for relationships, education, leadership, well-being, and research in Hawaiʻi. We will critically engage with Aloha ʻĀina to help us better understand, articulate, and respond to our kuleana to ʻāina and lāhui.

Dr. Larson Ng is an Educational Specialist and Co-Director of the Aloha ʻĀina Education and Leadership PhD Program in the College of Education. Having doctorate degrees in organization & management as well as in education, he actively conducts and publishes research in the fields of business and economic sustainability literacy and curriculum development; Native Hawaiian education policy and program evaluation, leadership curriculum and professional development; and education during the Hawaiian Kingdom era. As part of the graduate faculty, he continues to advise, mentor, and teach courses in research methodology and statistics as well as actively incorporates leadership and economic concepts in his teaching with the graduate programs of EDCS and the Education Doctorate in Professional Educational Practice.

Dr. Kimo Cashman is a tenured-faculty member in Curriculum Studies and a former teacher at Nānākuli High and Intermediate School. Dr. Cashman serves as co-director for the Aloha ʻAina Education and Leadership track and the National Board Certification Teacher Leader track of the Master’s of Education in Curriculum Studies (MEd-CS) degree program. He also is the director for the Teacher Leader Graduate Certificate program. His research interests are consistent with the programs he directs.

Instructors
Dr. Pauline Chinn & Dr. Stacy Potes

Course Dates 

• May 10, 24, 31: Introduction, Overview, Logistics (In-Person/Zoom)
• June 7-15: Immersion week in Taiwan
• June 23-27: Taiwan students visit UH Mānoa
• August 1, 8, 15: Final Presentation (In-Person/Zoom)

Description
This joint course between the University of Hawaii and National Sun Yat-sen University on Place-based Education and Sustainability fosters cross-cultural exchange and collaborative learning by addressing local contexts and global challenges. The course offers active participation in the unique environments and communities of Hawaiʻi and Taiwan. Participants will explore how local issues, histories, and resources can be integrated into education, focusing on navigation and microplastics (One Ocean, One World). This exchange promotes collaboration and dialogue, enabling participants to share best practices and innovative teaching approaches that respect and incorporate local identities while also tackling critical issues like environmental sustainability and public health on a global scale.  Please contact Dr. Chinn (chinn@hawaii.edu) and/or Dr. Potes (spotes@hawaii.edu) for more information.

Application Form –  Undergraduate and Graduate students may apply.
https://forms.gle/ipHBxTMM8zfYae6E6

Dr. Pauline Chinn is a professor in the College of Education Department of Curriculum Studies at the University of Hawaii Manoa. Her research centers on place-based, culturally sustaining teacher leadership; the impact of teacher-developed curricula on student engagement and academic achievement; and studying Hawaiian language newspaper articles and related texts for STEM education and research.

Dr. Stacy Potes is an Assistant Professor at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa College of Education in Secondary Mathematics. Dr. Potes currently teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in teacher preparation, including Secondary Mathematics Methods and Multicultural Education. Previously, she worked as a Mathematics Lecturer at the University of Hawaiʻi West Oʻahu for five years and as a secondary mathematics teacher for thirteen years in the Department of Education. She focuses on contextualizing mathematics education by incorporating mathematics, culture, and sustainability. Her research is rooted in Hawaiʻi and influenced the development of a framework that includes place-conscious pedagogy, culturally responsive pedagogy, and critical ethnomathematics pedagogy.

The 7th Annual STEMS² Symposium will take place Tuesday, June 24, 2025 through Thursday, June 26, 2025 with opportunities to engage both in person and online. In-person experiences will include activities that physically engage participants with people and places around O‘ahu. Online experiences may include workshops, poster sessions, talk stories and paper presentations. Whether you participate locally on Oʻahu or from a distance, join fellow STEMS² enthusiasts who share a passion for exploring the roles that place, culture, and identity play in interdisciplinary education.

This year’s symposium will explore the intersection of youth empowerment, community sustainability, and trauma-conscious practices, creating a space to examine how these elements can contribute to collective well-being and social justice in today’s world. The aim is to engage participants in a cross-generational dialogue where youths’ voices lead to actionable change rooted in community-driven solutions, healing practices, and an unwavering commitment to critical thinking and questioning to build more equitable and just futures.

This three-day experience will include opportunities to engage both online and in person. Participants are welcome to join locally on Oʻahu or from a distance. Whether a presenter or a participant, we encourage everyone to contribute to making the STEMS² Symposium a place where all attendees can engage in the pillars of STEMS² while being a teacher and a learner at all times.

For more information, please visit https://coe.hawaii.edu/stems2/symposium/2025/ and/or contact stems2@hawaii.edu.

Hawaii Instructional Team
Robyn S.B. Chun & Coleen Momohara

Course Dates
June 16 – July 25, 2025 (Hybrid)

UH Credit
CRN: TBA ($1,950) – Please contact Jaime Lum at ece@hawaii.edu for course override

Non-UH Credit / PDE3
CRN: TBD ($200)

Meeting Times

• Friday, June 13th  |  5:30-8:00pm  | Zoom Orientation for all Participants
• June 18 – July 6  |  Asynchronous Online  |  Readings / Assignment 1 for PDE3 & Credit Students
• July 7 – 11  |  8:30 am – 4:30 pm HST  |  Face-to-Face for all Participants at Campus Center Executive Ballroom, UH Mānoa  
• July 16 & 23 |  5:30 – 8:30 pm HST  |  Zoom for PDE3 & Credit Students

Description
This year’s Summer Institute, Project Work as Learning Journeys: Situating Projects with Children and Families to Cultivate an Enduring Sense of Place and Purpose, provides conceptual frames, research and examples to critically inform the intentional design of curriculum in ECE programs.

Participants will: 1) explore definitions of curriculum, 2) examine principles underlying prominent integrated curricular approaches, 3) experience the design, implementation, and documentation of a project for adults; and, 4) reflect on implications for carrying out project work with young children and their families.

This summer’s institute will enable participants to:
• Explore definitions of curriculum and integrated curricular approaches uncovering how context (historical and socio-cultural influences) inform familiar curricular models

• Develop a working definition that reflects the theoretical and research base informing contemporary early childhood education.

• Generate principles or tenets to guide decision making when engaging in integrated curriculum planning, implementation, and documentation and assessment in early learning programs.

• Apply the project approach theoretical model to the design, implementation, and documentation of a rigorous, integrated project for adult learners.

• Analyze the similarities and differences between developmentally effective pedagogical strategies for project work with adult learners with project work with young children and their families.

Dr. Will Parnell: Our special guest this Summer, Dr. Will Parnell, is a professor of early childhood education and former chair of the Curriculum and Instruction Department at Portland State University. Among his many gifts, Will helps educators explore how to make listening and learning visible and valued, especially through the creative repurposing of reused materials. His current interests center on meaning-making through arts-based narrative-building processes that inform classroom practices and place-noticing. An internationally recognized scholar and teacher educator, Will has written numerous articles focusing on children, teachers, and parents’ lived experiences and is the co-editor and author of three books including, Making Meaning in Early Childhood Research and Disrupting Research in Early Childhood Education. He is a mentor to doctoral students and young scholars across the U.S. and Australia.

Inspired by the Filipino Curriculum Project, Hawai‘i lawmakers unanimously passed HCR56 in 2022 which requested the Hawaii Department of Education (HIDOE) to “implement a Filipino history, culture and identity social studies course for high school students.”  Starting in the 2024-2025 school year, the following Hawaiʻi public, charter, and private will offer CHR 2300 Filipino History Culture: Farrington High School, Waipahu High School, Dreamhouse ʻEwa Beach, and Maryknoll School.

In preparation for that launch, the Filipino American Education Institute will be offering professional development courses that will start this Summer.  Please visit https://filameducation.com/pd/ and/or contact phalagao@hawaii.edu for more information.