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CS Summer Courses for Educators 2026

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The Department of Curriculum Studies is excited to offer a variety of graduate level summer courses! Students typically take 3-6 credits during the summer. Feel free to mix and match the courses from the list below. So, why join our summer camp for teachers?

  1. Find something for everyone

  2. Join a community of teacher leaders

  3. Experience online formats

  4. Advance your professional skills

  5. Apply credits to a Graduate degree

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Registration and Contact Info

Registration Info

UH students can register for Summer 2026 extension courses through STAR GPS Registration System directly or through MyUH Services. Use the course reference number (CRN) indicated below with each course for registration.

For non-UH students (UH unclassified), please apply and register for Summer 2026 extension courses through Outreach College. After being admitted as a UH student and setting up your UH Username, you will be able to access the STAR GPS Registration System directly or through MyUH Services. Use the course reference number (CRN) indicated below with each course for registration. Students do not need to submit health forms if they are taking completely online courses.

Registration begins April 10, 2026 for all students.

HIDOE teachers are eligible to enroll in courses for reclassification credits, pending your principal approval.

Contact
csdept@hawaii.edu

Multilingual Multicultural Virtual Summer Institute

(Institute courses may be taken separately or together)

For HIDOE teachers, the two courses satisfy 1) Six Credit Hour Sheltered Instruction SIQ TESOL Requirements and 2) HQ TESOL Requirements.

Instructor
Dr. Alohilani Okamura

Course Dates / Format / CRN
June 16 to July 24  /  Online Synchronous  /  CRN: 4174

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 Alohilani Okamura (kayokanu@hawaii.edu) to receive an override code.

*Outreach College charges an administrative fee of $140.

Instructor
Christina Higgins

Course Dates / Format / CRN
June 15 – July 24  |  Online Synchronous  |  CRN: 98118

Meeting Days / Times 
Mondays & Wednesdays  | 1:00pm – 4:10pm

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 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.

Instructor
Dr. Monica Smith

Course Dates / Format / CRN
July 6 to July 24 / Online Synchronous / CRN: TBD

Meeting Days & Times
Monday to Friday, 3:30pm – 6:00pm

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). This section is targeted towards COE Mentor teachers.

* Contact Monica Smith (monica.smith@hawaii.edu) to receive an override code.

Pedagogy, Literacy, & Research

Instructor
Dr. Amanda Smith

Course Dates / Meeting Days / Meeting Times / CRN
July 6 – August 14 | Tuesdays and Thursdays (Online Synchronous) | 4:30 pm – 7:00 pm | CRN: 99051

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

Amanda Smith 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. Amanda Smith

Course Dates / Meeting Days & Times / CRN
May 26 – July 2 | Tuesday, May 26 and Thursday July 2 (Online Synchronous) from 4:30 pm – 7:00 pm, Online asynchronous all other days | CRN: 99067

Description
New approaches to analyzing 21st century literacies K-12, including visual, media, digital, and critical literacies as well as developing leadership practices in multi-literacies pedagogy.

 

Amanda Smith 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 & Times / CRN
May 26 – July 2 | Mondays from 4:00 pm – 6:30 pm (Online Synchronous) | CRN: 4175

Description
Explores theoretical and practical principles of literacy and sustainability across academic disciplines, investigating the role of language and literate practices of reading, writing, speaking, visualizing, and representing in social, cultural, and educational contexts.

Hawaiian Education

Instructors
Dr. Stacy Potes
Bonnie Kahapea-Tanner
Mieko Māhealani Treaster

Course Dates / Meeting Days & Times / CRN
Week 1: 5/26, 5/28 5-7pm (Synchronous Zoom)
Week 2: 6/1-6/05 8am – 3pm (In-person)
Week 3: 6/08, 6/10, 6/12 8:30am – 12:30pm (In-person)
CRN: TBD

Description
This ʻāina-based and culturally sustaining course fosters collaborative learning with a focus on Hawaiʻi specific contexts of voyaging. Designed for K-12 educators, the course offers active participation in voyaging activities relevant to the unique environments and communities of Hawaiʻi. Participants will explore how community-based resources can be integrated into curricula focused on voyaging. Course will include field trips, hands-on experiences, and conversations with educators in the field. [SUST Designated]

Instructors
Rainbow Pharaon
Arby Barone

Course Dates / Meeting Days & Times / CRN
Tuesdays (Zoom) 6/16-7/21,10:30am-1:00pm
Wednesdays (huakaʻi), 6/17-7/22, 9:00am-2:00pm
CRN: TBD

Description
This course engages educator-researchers in developing the knowledge and skills necessary to design and implement garden-based lessons in both formal and informal educational settings. Through the
course and place-based huakaʻi, students will explore and apply agriculture, food security, and garden-based themes such as food systems, biomimicry, agroforestry, aquaculture, and native habitats as real-world examples of sustainability across Hawaiʻi and gain conceptual and content knowledge of Hawaiʻiʻs unique bio-socio-cultural systems, building awareness and critical analysis of local and global sustainability practices, ethical or justice implications, and action-oriented solutions. Emphasis is placed on the important role school gardens play within the formal educational system and broader community settings/ahupuaʻa/moku.

Conferences

The 8th Annual STEMS² Symposium – Building Now for the Future We Envision, will take place Tuesday, June 23, 2026 through Thursday, June 25, 2026 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.

For more information, please visit STEMS² Symposium site and/or contact stems2@hawaii.edu.

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