Author: Alycia Fujii

15 Apr Exploring Inquiry Learning in Early Childhood Education

Posted at 10:58h in Year In Review 2011

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Inquiry is one of our most basic activities as human beings, beginning with babies who use it to make sense of the world around them. Partnerships with the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Children’s Center...

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15 Apr New Placed-based Science Curriculum

Posted at 10:53h in Year In Review 2011

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In a collaborative effort, project director Lois Yamauchi of the University of Hawai‘i College of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology and lead curriculum developer Carol Ann Brennan of CRDG are engaged in a three-year project...

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15 Apr CRDG Evaluation Team Serves the Early Childhood Community and Hawai‘i’s Race to the Top

Posted at 10:52h in Year In Review 2011

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CRDG’s team of early childhood education evaluators contracted with the Hawai‘i P–20 Partnership for Education to collect data at preschools in Hawai‘i’s two Race to the Top (RTTT) “zones of school innovation” (ZSI). The ZSIs,...

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15 Apr Supporting Native Hawaiian Students

Posted at 10:51h in Year In Review 2011

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Building on past successes, CRDG continued its work providing support to Native Hawaiian students with the Kāko‘o Ikaika, Heluhelu Maoli, and Piha Pono projects, all formal partnerships between CRDG and the Hawai‘i Department of Education....

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15 Apr Updating Place-based Science Curriculum

Posted at 10:46h in Year In Review 2011

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The Hawai‘i Nature Study program, originally conceived and developed by Sister Edna Demanche in the 1970s, was always popular with Hawai‘i teachers because, unlike most science textbooks available to them, it provided inquiry-based activities focused...

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