Native Hawaiian Grant Award Abstracts FY 2003

[Alu Like, Inc. -- S362A030010]{.underline}

This program will continue the unique work currently being done in the
statewide Pulama I Na Keiki (Cherish the Children) family-based, parent
education project. The project's mission is to enable parents to provide
their children with the best possible opportunities to support school
success. The project's goal is that participants will apply knowledge
gained on childbearing, child development, and childrearing. Specific
objectives, detailed in the proposal, track progress toward this goals
using birth outcomes, child developmental status, health indicators,
child pre-literacy assessment, and parental knowledge. This project will
provide services to approximately 625 families a year through home
visits and group activities from 10 community-based sites on 5 islands.

[Institute for Native Pacific Education -- S362A030042]{.underline}

The goal of this project is that Native Hawaiian Children, ages 0-5,
will be safe, healthy and ready to achieve to high standards. Its two
objectives are: Native Hawaiian students will enter school ready to
learn and achieve to high standards and Teachers will receive training
and have access to instructional resources that meet the unique
educational needs of Native Hawaiian students. The Keiki Steps Hui
project will provide Native Hawaiian children and their families, with
culturally based, high quality early childhood experiences in a rich
learning environment. Keiki Steps will utilize traditional Hawaiian
wisdom in seeing the whole community as the environment in which
children can be educated. The informal indoor/outdoor setting will
provide motivating activity/learning centers, a lending library, and
other developmentally appropriate activities for children, as well as
parent education. 125 families, each with 1-5 children, and who
otherwise may receive no preschool experience, will be served. The
project targets children in the Wai'anae Coast area (O'ahu) and in Hilo
(Hawaii).

[Partners in Development -- S362A030047]{.underline}

The "Tutu and Me: Expanding and Continuing Our Reach" project will
provide for the expansion of a traveling preschool program for Hawaiian
and Part-Hawaiian children, ages 0-5; the project will also provide
training for elderly

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caregivers of Hawaiian and Part Hawaiian children, ages 0-5. Will offer
prenatal advice and counseling to expectant mothers, and, will implement
diagnostic, evaluation, and assessment measures to qualify the impact of
the program in both the preparation of the children for formal school
and the expertise of their caregivers. The numerical target for the
project is to directly serve at least 2000 children and caregivers from
underserved populations of Hawaiian and Part-Hawaiian communities during
the three-year period

[Keiki O Ka Aina Family Learning Centers --S362A030051]{.underline}

The H.E.L.P project will address the problem of: Native Hawaiian
Children are at High-Risk for School Failure. This project will address
the following four root causes: (1) Hawaiians often cannot afford to
send their children to appropriate early child education centers, (2)
Schools are trying to educate students outside the context of their
culture and language, (3) Many parents lack the social development and
self-sufficiency necessary to foster and support adequate parenting and
often leading to mental health problems for parents and children, (4)
Conduct scholarly research on best practices and apply the principles of
research to evaluate intervention for the improvement of the program.

[Aha Punana Leo, Inc. -- S362A030040]{.underline}

The E O Mau project will research and develop a parent-infant program
for prenatal through three-year-olds; sustain the effective and
efficient operations of the Punana Leo preschool system; strengthen the
Punana Leo preschool curriculum and preschool teacher training programs
to include an early literacy component ensuring that all Punana Leo
preschoolers have reached the emergent reading stage upon graduation;
stabilize the Nawahiokalani opu'u campus as an effective and efficient
Model Hawaiian Medium Family Based learning site to facilitate the
continued research and development of Hawaiian medium programming,
training and outreach; and to begin the implementation of the systems
necessary to gather, store, and disseminate research and data on
Hawaiian medium education allowing increased awareness for, and access
to, its success.

# **Kana o ka Aina Learning Ohana -- S362A030033** 

The Kana o ka Aina Learning Ohana will construct a 27,540 square foot
Multimedia Lab and Learning Lab to be used primarily to conduct school
programs. This facility will be able to accommodate 250 Hawaiian
students and their families. This facility will include a MAC Computer
Lab for 40 students, PC Computer Lab for 20 students, Multimedia
Production lab, and a video conferencing room.

# **Aha Punana Leo, Inc.- S362A020048**

This project will repair, renovate and plan for the expansion of the
Nawahiokalani opu u site demonstrating, implementing, evaluating and
enhancing a full-range of Hawaiian medium education programs and will
execute two objectives throughout the project period. The objectives are
(1) maintain and upgrade the existing Nawahi facilities as necessary for
the continued operation of the current programming being implemented at
the Nawahi campus, with special focus given to meeting OSHA and ADA
requirements and to (2) plan and construct a multi-purpose learning
center that links the already existing indoor classroom environment with
the outdoor classroom environment, facilitating increased efficiency in
the usage of the comprehensive learning environment already available on
the Nawahi campus.

### Keiki O Ka Aina Family Learning Centers -- S362A030054

Often a temporary pot is used to grow a seed. This ensures that the seed
will have the opportunity to grow even if it is uncertain where it will
end up. A temporary pot is a quick fix and eventually a permanent space
must be found. Once a permanent site uncovers itself, it is wise to
transplant. The transplant creates an opportunity to for transition from
one stage to the next so the seedling can start to sink its roots and
soak up all of the nutrients from the surrounding soil, spread it
leaves, bathe in the sunlight and absorb water as it falls from the sky.
Providing a permanent location enables growth to its fullest potential.
The plant, in turn, gives food, shade, nutrient, healing or pleasure to
all within its reach.

Keiki O Ka Aina Family Learning Centers has spent years planting seeds
at a variety of temporary sites. Having received strong community
support these seeds are now plants required a permanent site in order to
become beautiful trees, part of a symbiotic relationship that can only
be achieved when a collaborative and balance effort is expounded. Ke
Kula Kaiapuni O 'Anuenue and Keiki O Ka Aina have come together to work
toward mutual goals that can only be achieved through partnership.

Imagine if you will, a campus set deep in the valley of Palolo where the
Kaiaulu wind cools, calms and caresses the skin of those fortunate
enough to be present, a place not far from Waikiki. On that campus, just
near enough to everything, there sits a preschool large enough for a
variety of educational activities. Keiki and parents enjoy a spacious,
covered lanai (porch area), large enough for eating, meetings or
playing. Just beyond the lanai are two huge and very old monkey pod
trees with more than enough shade. Under these enormous trees lies a
playground with equipment accessible to all children including those
with disabilities. Just beyond the playground lies a four-tiered,
terraced garden, one level with indigenous traditional medicinal plants,
one with an abundance of native flowers used to make leis, one with
plants used to make and dye kappa (traditional cloth) and one with
everything needed to make a luau (party where traditional foods are
served). Very near to this garden rests an aquaculture tank where
children learn to raise opae (native shrimp) and a loi (taro patch) is
carefully tended. Further up hill, just above the preschool, lies yet
another building full of life and energy. It's the building where
everyone gathers, where students, staff, and families at Anuenue and the
Palolo community have access to parenting classes, mental health
services, and our two nationally acclaimed home based parenting
programs, Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY)
and Parents as Teachers (PAT). This is the permanent site for KOKA-FLC
where families from all over O'ahu will come and receive much needed
services in a culturally appropriate context and manner.

### Alu Like, Inc. -- S362A030006

This project will continue the work that was started in 1999, in
conjunction with INPEACE, in the statewide early care and education
effort known as Ho'owaiwai Na Kamali I (HNK). HNK will engage both local
communities and state-level entities in designing a seamless system of
early childhood services to assure school readiness for Native Hawaiian
children. Native Hawaiian Early Childhood State Advisory Council will be
established, and five Local Advisory Councils "staffed" by five
Community Facilitators will serve at the community level on O'ahu. With
separate funding through the Native Hawaiian Education Act, INPEACE
currently has Local Advisory Councils on the Neighbor Islands and works
closely with ALU LIKE's efforts on O'ahu. These councils will develop
public awareness campaigns on the importance of school readiness issues
and the availability of services. In addition they will identify
community-defined school readiness outcomes for young Native Hawaiian
children, develop local plans responsive to Native Hawaiian children
attaining school readiness, and identify financing strategies to
implement these plans.

# **Partners in Development -- S362A030052**

This proposal will improve social, economic and educational
opportunities for Native Hawaiians by integrating the progressive
teaching methods of the National Center for Family Literacy (NCFL) with
Native Hawaiian cultural values, like 'ohana (that which is composed of
off-shoots) and ho'oponopono (to make right or set straight). The
project will serve as a haku, to heal the rift between Native Hawaiians
and haole (foreign, Caucasian) value systems with which they live. This
program will promote unity and purpose, truthfulness, empowerment
through knowledge, love of learning, and pulling together to achieve a
group goal. This is a four-component program that brings parents and
children into the learning environment together, and revitalizes the
'ohana as an instrumentality for growing minds and futures. The four
NCFL components include: Children's Education, adult education, parent
and child together time, and parent time.

### Aha Punana Leo, Inc. -- S362A030050

The He Honua Ko Lalo community-based learning center project will create
a unique Mauli-Hawaii honua (Hawaiian-Identity Environment) outside of
the traditional educational institutions and directly from Hawaiian
philosophy and values that develops and perpetuates the cultural
identity of the Hawaiian speaking 'ohana through a relevant and engaging
community learning environment that results in stewardship and life
success.

**[Education-1^st^ Hawaii Inc. -- S362A030037]{.underline}**

The Kahue 'Ike project will support the development and operation of a
center that serves Native Hawaiian youth and their families in the
Ko'olauloa district. Project Kahua 'Ike will address one of the major
problems facing the Native Hawaiian youth and their families of the
Ko'olauloa district. The project will address the significant
environmental barriers to post-secondary education and career awareness
and the significant lack of opportunity for Native Hawaiian youth to
access culturally competent academic support programs in the Ko'olaulo'a
area.

# **Ke Kula Ni'ihau O Kekaha Learning Center -- S362A030022**

The Paipai Ho'ona'auao 'Ohana (PONO), or "Encouraging Family Education"
will serve Native Hawaiians from the small private island of Ni'ihau who
reside on the Westside of Kaua'I or who migrate back and forth between
the two islands. The project has the following specific objectives: (1)
Preschool-age children will become more ready to learn by participating
in a structured preschool environment; (2) students in grades K-3 will
meet Hawaii Content and Performance Standards in reading; (3) high
school students will complete requirements for graduation from high
school and will be aware of a variety of post-secondary educational
options; (4) non certificated staff will work toward certification as
educational assistants and teachers; (5) staff, families, students, and
other community members will take advantage of increased opportunities
for continuing education outside the regular school curriculum.

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# **University of Hawaii at Hilo -- S362A030011**

The Na Pua No'eau project will implement a Natural and Environmental
Sciences "pathway" program for Native Hawaiian Students statewide that
are beginning their high school education. The pathway leads to the
longer tem Goals of increasing Native Hawaiian post-secondary
enrollments in the Natural and Environmental Sciences, and increase the
number of Native Hawaiians in the Natural and Environmental Science
professions, thus addressing the significant under-representation of
Native Hawaiians in those professions. Educational activities will
include two-week Summer Institute residential programs at the University
of Hawaii four-year campuses; to be followed by Research Mentorship's
during the school year.

# **Pacific American Foundation -- S362A030002**

The Ke Kumu Alaka'I project will help gifted and talented Native
Hawaiian youths focus their educational interests and more fully develop
their particular talents and gifts through an intensive mentoring
relationship with Native Hawaiian leaders, supported by their parents,
and delivered in the context of cultural values. This project will serve
550 Native Hawaiian gifted and talented K-12 students, with an emphasis
on K-7.

**[Education-1^st^ Hawaii Inc. -- S362A030046]{.underline}**

The Kahue 'Ike project will support the development and operation of the
gifted and talented Native Hawaiian youth and their families in the
Ko'olauloa district. Project Kahua 'Ike will address one of the major
problems facing the Native Hawaiian youth and their families of the
Ko'olauloa district. The project will address the significant
environmental barriers to post-secondary education and career awareness
and the significant lack of opportunity for Native Hawaiian youth to
access culturally competent academic support programs in the Ko'olaulo'a
area.

# **University of Hawaii at Hilo S362A030005**

The Hua Kau Maka Hawaiian Language Literacy Project will develop early
childhood literacy comprehension curriculum for Hawaiian medium
education to enable the students in grades K-3 to achieve a high level
of literacy in both Hawaiian and English languages.

# **University of Hawaii -- Honolulu (Research Services) -- S362A030035**

The Ku I Ka Mana'ai project will develop curriculum units aligned with
the new immersion pedagogy in three areas: (1) Hawaiian language arts
for the three critical grades (K-12) where children firmly establish
their grammatical system and develop their literacy skills, (2) science
and (3) mathematics lessons, integrated with Hawaiian language arts, and
Hawaiian culture. All lessons will be age and culturally appropriate in
order to support both learning content and language-specific usage

# **Alu Like, Inc. -- S362A030027**

Ola Ka Honua: Volcanoes Alive in Hawaii will develop 10 units of
curriculum instruction that blend Native "ways of knowing" with
"western" research. Each bilingual unit will be based on National and
State Science, Math, and Language arts Standards, and scaffold student
understanding of volcano geophysics. The curriculum will be created and
field-tested in 5 schools on the 5 major Hawaiian Islands using 5
different teaching approaches to ensure its flexibility in meeting the
needs of both "at-risk" and "gifted" Hawaiian middle-school students.
The entire curriculum will be translated into the Hawaiian language. To
ensure students needs are met long term, teacher training and fiscal
support for student supplies and materials will be provided to the 5
schools participating in this grant.

# **University of Hawaii- Honolulu -- S62A030045**

The Ha'awina Ho'opapau Project at Nanakuli High School will address six
goals through three phases of activity. The first phase will be to
review and evaluate existing science and Native Hawaiian cultural
curricula for high school students, to determine effectiveness related
to student outcomes

and cultural responsiveness based on the Hawaiian Cultural Standardsl.
The second phase will use what was learned in the first phase to develop
improved curricula that will effectively align Native Hawaiian and
Western knowledge systems in the area of science, with integrated
literacy and career education outcomes for 9^th^ and 10^th^ graders. The
curricula will be developed through a collaborative process that brings
together kupuna (respected elders), local cultural experts, educators,
and curriculum development professionals. The curricula will be
field-tested to determine effectiveness in achieving the goals of
improving in-school and post-school outcomes for NH youth. The project's
third phase will be to disseminate the curriculum package and work with
high schools to sustain the curricula.

### Aha Punana Leo, Inc. -- S362A030049 

The Ho'inana Hou project will meet four objectives: create and deliver a
family language program including a curriculum, scope and sequence, and
assessment measures with a focus on mathematical and science concepts
and vocabulary; develop and deliver print and non-print learning
materials for the program; develop and carry out an organized community
information campaign to raise awareness about Hawaiian as a valuable,
viable part of the culture, lifestyle, and commerce of Hawaii to include
print and non-print informational materials and in servicing on Hawaiian
language basics and resources; and, provide training to the Kahuawaiola
Indigenous Teacher Education Program and the classrooms and parents
programs of Hawaiian medium laboratory schools and preschools.

### Alu Like, Inc. -- S362A030013 

The Na Ha'awina Ho'opono (Lessons in Behaving Correctly) project will
meet the need in the topic area of health by involving kupuna (respected
elders) and representatives of all key stakeholder groups in a
collaborative curriculum development process designed to infuse
traditional Native Hawaiian values into the health curricula while also
ensuring the curricula address all of the academic standards for health
required for Hawaii's public school students. The curricula will support
students across grades K-12 to explore and understand how the health and
well being of each individual

depends on maintaining proper relationships with other people as well as
the physical environment. The curricula will be infused with traditional
Native Hawaiian values that provide guidance for behaving in a pono
(proper, righteous) manner, fostering the health and well-being of
individuals as well as their friends and relatives and society as a
whole.

# **Olomana School -- S362A030036**

This project will develop a complete change in instructional pedagogy,
the teachers, staff, students, and parents will use the "Ohana
Management System that replicates elements of the form and function of
the traditional Hawaiian family to reestablish and reinforce the values
of aloha (love, respect), kako'o (support), kokua (help), lokahi
(harmony), malama (take care of), laulima (cooperation), ho'okipa
(hospitality), kuleana (responsibility), kupa'a (loyalty), to perpetuate
the success of the learning community. Academic content lessons will be
infused with appropriate, culturally relevant learning activities that
honor the unique learning styles of the Hawaiian culture. Parents will
become members of the learning community and participate in restoring
Hawaiian values in the home. As a result, everyone will share a common
"language" and the school will be a place that is seen as an "anchor" of
cultural identity and personal power.