2023 COHORT
2023 FEATURED SPEAKER
Ryan Ozawa
Journalist and Technologist
Ryan Kawailani Ozawa is a native Hawaiian journalist and technologist who has contributed to every major media outlet in the state of Hawaii, including Hawaii News Now, KITV, KHON, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, Hawaii Public Radio, and Civil Beat. He has also been featured in national and international media outlets including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Seattle Times, Newsweek, CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera, and NPR.
Ryan specializes in covering the Hawaii innovation ecosystem, including local science, technology, startups, entrepreneurship, and the arts. He has immersed himself in new media and new technologies for four decades, publishing online before the advent of the World Wide Web, and was an early adopter of social networks as well as platforms and tools for blogging, podcasting, online video, and live video streaming. He has meanwhile co-founded two startups and two nonprofits in areas ranging from civic engagement to ag-tech and from public health to STEM education.
2023 PLANNING TEAM
and their favorite quotes about teaching & learning
Tiffany Akiyama
Online Hui
"Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try." —Gail Devers
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
Trixy ʻIwalani Koide
Āina-based Education
"Ma ka hana ka ʻike"
(In working one learns)
—'Olelo No'eau 2088
Rachel Lindsey
Online Hui
“Education is not the filling of a pot but the lighting of a fire.” —W.B. Yeats
Maegen Walker
Active Learning
Jamie Sickel
Coordinator
“Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they left school, every [learner] should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.” —Sir William Haley
Nadine Wolff
Online Hui
Jim Heller Sutton
Coordinator
“Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.”
—Chinese Proverb
Scott Wylie
Online Hui
"Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes." —John Dewy
"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
“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
MEET THE COORDINATORS
Jim Heller Sutton, M.Ed.
Director, Center for Teaching & Learning,
Chaminade University of Honolulu
Jim is the Director of Chaminade’s Center for Teaching and Learning. Jim has worked in faculty professional development since 2008 and has a varied background in education with experience in curriculum design and development, instruction, educational technology, and assessment. Jim earned his Master of Education in Curriculum and Instruction from the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University and sees the CTL as a space for faculty to collaborate and share ideas that enhance teaching and promote student learning and growth. Outside of Chaminade, Jim’s occupied with two young sons that keep him on his toes!
Jamie Sickel, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Center for Excellence in Learning, Teaching, and Technology
Kapi‘olani Community College
Jamie is an instructional designer at Kapi‘olani Community College. She has a background in education, visual communications, and instructional design. Prior to serving as an instructional designer at Kapi'olani Community College, she served as the blended learning advisor for the School of Education at Western Sydney University in Australia, a teacher educator at Ohio University, a National Science Foundation East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes fellow, and a K-12 teacher.