2021 COHORT
2021 FEATURED SPEAKER
Dr. Maya Soetoro-Ng
Faculty Specialist, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
will be wrapping up an engaging week of professional development on Friday, August 13! Dr. Soetoro-Ng is a Faculty Specialist in the College of Social Sciences at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She also serves as the University’s liaison to the Obama Foundation and works with the Foundation’s Leaders program and Global Girls Alliance on initiatives in Hawaiʻi and the Asia-Pacific region. Previously, she was the Director of the Matsunaga Institute for Peace at the University of Hawaiʻi, where, in addition to leading outreach and development initiatives, she also taught Leadership for Social Change, Peace Movements, Peace Education, and Conflict Management. For many years, she worked at the College of Education at the University, where she taught Multicultural Education, Social Studies Methods, and Peace Education at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. Maya sits on several voluntary boards and is the Co-Founder of the non-profits Ceeds of Peace, The Peace Studio, and The Institute for Climate and Peace. In 2021, Maya launched a podcast entitled “The Bravethrough Series: Courageous Conversations on Community” in partnership with KTUH Honolulu.
2021 PLANNING TEAM
and their favorite quotes about teaching & learning
Meiko Arai
Active Learning
“The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created. The classroom with all its limitations remains a location of possibility. In that field of possibility we have the opportunity to labour for freedom, to demand of ourselves and our comrades, an openness of mind and heart that allows us to face reality even as we collectively imagine ways to move beyond boundaries, to transgress. This is education as the practice of freedom.” —bell hooks
James Balicao
Online Hui
“If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow.” —John Dewey
Kahoaliʻi K. Keahi-Wood
Āina-based Education
" ˊAˊole pau ka ˊike i ka hālau hoˊokahi"
(Knowledge is not limited to one school)
—'Olelo No'eau
Rachel Lindsey
Online Hui
“Education is not the filling of a pot but the lighting of a fire.” —W.B. Yeats
Jamie Sickel
Communications
"Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school, every (student) should know how much they do not know and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it." —Sir William Haley
Jim Heller Sutton
Coordinator
“Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.”
—Chinese Proverb
Helen Torigoe
Active Learning
"Ma ka hana ka ‘ike." (In working one learns.)
—'Olelo No'eau
Nadine Wolff
Online Hui
"If you plan for a year, plant kalo. If you plan for ten years, plant koa. If you plan for one-hundred years, teach the children." —Puanani Burgess
Scott Wylie
Online Hui
“The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can shape the students. What the educator does in teaching is to make it possible for the students to become themselves.” —Paolo Freire