About Us

The CREDE Hawai‘i project is part of the Department of Educational Psychology in the College of Education at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. For the past 17 years, our program has offered professional development to teachers of native Hawaiian and other culturally and linguistically diverse students.

The CREDE Hawai‘i team is dedicated to improving education for Hawai‘i’s youth and providing educators with a range of tools to help them implement best practices for native Hawaiian and other culturally and linguistically diverse students. Our team includes faculty, staff, educators, and graduate students from the University of Hawai‘i. Our diverse team members are comprised of experts from a range of specialties such as educational psychology, curriculum development, special education, early childhood education, and native Hawaiian cultural specialists.

Project Activities:

Professional development – We offer courses through the University of Hawai‘i, Department of Educational Psychology to K-12 teachers to promote educators’ use of CREDE Standards for Effective Pedagogy for culturally and linguistically diverse students.

Kuhikuhina Kaulike Project – We are working with teachers on Oʻahu and Hawaiʻi Island who are enacting Instructional Conversations for Equitable Participation (ICEPs) in their classrooms. Project consultants work with school-based teacher teams who collaborate to plan and enact their ICEP lessons. 

Mohala Nā Pua – We developed place-based science curricula that integrate the CREDE Standards for early childhood in collaboration with several schools across the state of Hawai‘i.

Kamaile Academy – We collaborated with this public charter school located on the leeward side on the island of O‘ahu. The student population is primarily native Hawaiian. We worked with several teachers in grades K-9 to promote educators’ use of the CREDE strategies for effective pedagogy.

PK3 – We developed a course for the graduate certificate in early childhood at the University of Hawai‘i College of Education. Teachers in preschool and early childhood elementary education learn to use the CREDE Standards and are coached in their classrooms.

Greenland Project – The Ministry of Education of Greenland has adopted the CREDE Standards as the basis of school reform from preschool to high education. Our staff has collaborated with Greenland educators and policy makers to assist them in integrating the CREDE Standards in their schools.

University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Children’s Center – For over six years, we worked with educators at the Children’s Center to adapt the CREDE Standards for early childhood education and to develop the Center as a CREDE demonstration site. Together, we created an instrument to measure the CREDE Standards in early childhood classrooms.

Current and Past Partners and Sponsors:

  • Native Hawaiian Education Association
  • Kamaile Academy
  • Kamehameha Schools
  • Hawai‘i P20
  • Hawai‘i Department of Education
  • University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Children’s Center
  • University of Hawai‘i, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology
  • Wai‘anae High School