## Project Abstracts

**FY 2006 New Awards**

**Native Hawaiian Education Program**

**CFDA 84.362A**

1.  [S362A060001 -- Waianae District Comprehensive Health and Hospital
    Board (Honolulu)]{.underline}

2.  [S362A060004 -- Alu Like, Inc. (Honolulu)]{.underline}

3.  [S362A060006 -- Alu Like, Inc. (Honolulu)]{.underline}

4.  [S362A060008 -- University of Hawaii at Hilo -- Na Pua Noeau
    (Hilo)]{.underline}

### S362A060009 -- Kakoo Central Maui Hawaiian Civic Club (Wailuku)

5.  [S362A060018 -- Hawaii Technology Institute (Honolulu)]{.underline}

###### S362A060021 -- University of Hawaii SEED Office of Student Affairs (Honolulu)

6.  [S362A0060022 -- University of Hawaii, Department of Educational
    Psychology (Honolulu)]{.underline}

7.  [S362A060027 -- University of Hawaii/College of Education Center on
    Disability Studies (Honolulu)]{.underline}

8.  [S362A060030 -- Na Kamalei-Ko'olauloa Early Education Program
    (Kamuela)]{.underline}

9.  [S362A060038 -- Partners in Development (Honolulu)]{.underline}

#### S362A060040 -- University of Hawaii, Maui Community College (Maui)

10. [S362A060042 -- University of Hawaii, Center on Disability Studies
    (Honolulu)]{.underline}

11. [S362A060047 -- Kanu o ka 'Aina Learning 'Ohana---Halau Wanana
    (Kamuela)]{.underline}

12. [S362A060048 -- University of Hawaii/Manoa-SEED Office of Student
    Affairs (Honolulu)]{.underline}

13. [S362A060051 -- Partners in Development (Honolulu)]{.underline}

14. [S362A060054 -- College Connections (Honolulu)]{.underline}

15. [S362A060055 -- Educational Services Hawaii Foundation
    (Honolulu)]{.underline}

### S362A060056 -- Hawaii Department of Education (Honolulu)

### S362A060059 -- Pacific American Foundation (Honolulu)

### S362A060060 -- Pacific American Foundation (Honolulu)

16. [S362A060072 -- Partners in Development (Honolulu)]{.underline}

#### S362A060074 -- Waianae High School Alumni and Community Foundation (Waianae)

**[S362A060001 -- Waianae District Comprehensive Health and Hospital
Board (Honolulu)]{.underline}**

This project will develop, expand, and sustain culturally based,
community-designed, non-traditional educational programs at the Waianae
Health Academy (WHA). The project aims to increase the number of Native
Hawaiians from the Waianae Coast who will complete college programs,
obtain employment, or continue in postsecondary education. The project
will utilize an individualized case management approach to help students
overcome barriers to achieving their goals, and training stipends and
reciprocity programs to assist with financial barriers. All students
will be required to volunteer in the Waianae community.

##### [S362A060004 -- Alu Like, Inc. (Honolulu)]{.underline}

This project aims to help parents understand the importance of early
nurturing and encourages verbal parent-child interactions and the
expansion of families' English and Hawaiian vocabularies. The main goal
of this component is to increase families' exposure to print materials
and their awareness and use of home resources and varied learning
opportunities and environments. Additionally, the project contains a
Prenatal/Postpartum Component, in which Parent Educators focus on
maternal nutrition and care, fetal development, childbirth, postpartum
issues, brain development, and family planning, and a Parent-Child
Component (after birth), in which Parent Educators focus on safety,
health and nutrition, child development and guidance, and childcare.

**[S362A060006 -- Alu Like, Inc. (Honolulu)]{.underline}**

The goal of this project is to utilize the World Wide Web to provide
access to 200 books and other curriculum materials on the Hawaiian
Language and culture. This project will make these resources available
on a Web site for the teachers, staff members, students, and families of
the 12 Hawaiian-focused charter schools that comprise the Na Lei Na'auau
Hawaiian Charter School Alliance. The project will provide training on
how to access and use the Web site.

**[S362A060008 -- University of Hawaii at Hilo -- Na Pua Noeau
(Hilo)]{.underline}**

The Pathways Project will serve 195 Native Hawaiians in the 9^th^ --
11^th^ grades on the islands of Hawaii, Maui, Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, and
Lanai. Students will be in three-year cohorts that will include
significant immersion in cultural and scientific activities, such as
three two-week summer residencies at a four-year university campus,
mentorships with university faculty and professionals over two school
years, field-based research projects, and access to university research
facilities. Project objectives are: (1) to enable Native Hawaiians to
enter and complete programs of post-secondary education; and (2) to
increase the number of Native Hawaiians entering the Natural and
Environmental Science Professions.

### S362A060009 -- Kakoo Central Maui Hawaiian Civic Club (Wailuku)

The Central Maui Hawaiian Civic Club will form a nucleus of Kupuna
(elders) to integrate cultural activities after school and to interact
and share cultural values with young children (from Kindergarten to
3^rd^ Grade) and their families on a monthly basis. The project will
provide educational and cultural experiences to 30 youth after school
through enrichment activities. In addition, the Civic Club will train at
least 20 Kupuna to work with homeless youth.

# S362A060018 -- Hawaii Technology Institute (Honolulu)

This project is designed to assist Native Hawaiian students to enter
allied health careers as medical assistants through enrollment and
completion of Hawaii Technology Institute's (HTI) accredited Diploma in
Medical Assisting Program. Building on its 20 years of experience
teaching a primarily Native Hawaiian student population, the project
plans to: 1) provide a learning environment that addresses the learning
styles predominant among Native Hawaiians; 2) encourage a culturally
sensitive and life-skills promoting environment against a backdrop of
universal values to promote good citizenship; 3) incorporate activities
that address multiple learning styles; and 4) integrate
industry-standard certification in the curriculum to increase the
marketability of students in today's competitive work environment.

###### S362A060021 -- University of Hawaii SEED Office of Student Affairs (Honolulu)

*Manana K pono* will: (1) provide college preparation outreach
activities to Native Hawaiian high school students from at-risk
communities; (2) expand the UHM College Opportunities Program (COP) by
recruiting, selecting, and supporting Native Hawaiian high school
graduates from at- risk communities to participate in a six-week
residential summer program and a first-year retention program; (3)
strengthen the transfer process of Native Hawaiian UH community college
students to UHM by coordinating current efforts and developing new
activities; (4) increase the 1st through 4th year retention and 6-year
graduation rates of Native Hawaiian students at UHM by establishing
academic learning communities, expanding financial support, and
providing tutoring and academic advising; and (5) improve faculty
knowledge, skills and abilities in teaching and advising Native Hawaiian
students by involving faculty and advisors from different fields and
departments to participate in an undergraduate learning community or
professional seminar.

S362A0060022 -- University of Hawaii, Department of Educational
Psychology (Honolulu)

The *CREDE Professional Development for Teachers of At-Risk Native
Hawaiian Students* project focuses on developing, delivering, and
evaluating professional development for educators who teach in schools
with high concentrations of at-risk Hawaiian students. The professional
development will promote teachers' use of the Five Standards for
Effective Pedagogy, (research-based principles for teaching at-risk
students). The project objectives are: 1) to develop two
distance-learning courses to promote teachers' use of the Five Standards
with Native Hawaiian students; 2) to deliver EDEP 411 to two cohorts of
teachers who teach in schools serving large concentrations of at-risk
Hawaiian students; 3) to deliver EDEP 768C to the first group of
teachers after they complete EDEP 411; 4) to influence professional
development programs by promoting the incorporation of the project
findings into existing programs; and 5) to conduct a program evaluation.

### S362A060027 -- University of Hawaii/College of Education Center on Disability Studies (Honolulu)

Through this project, Hawaiian youth -- across all levels of achievement
-- will participate in interactive activities that inspire teaching,
learn about computers, and develop skills to prepare for their futures.
The project will build on proven strategies in technology-based literacy
learning, including math, for children and teens, and creative futures
planning. At-risk youth will engage in story writing based on pictures,
and record the stories as slide shows with computer software. The school
and community-based partners will provide the locations, supervision,
and teaching and cultural expertise.

# S362A060030 -- Na Kamalei-Ko'olauloa Early Education Program (Kamuela)

This project will use an intergenerational Hawaiian model with children
and their families to improve the quality and coordination of infant
support groups, parent and child interaction programs, and preschools.
The project goal is to provide opportunities for families to foster
cultural and healthy development of the child through mentoring in home,
class, and interactive environments for Native Hawaiian infants and
toddlers. This approach aims to produce a cultural educational
curriculum designed for parents and programs to support child
development and school readiness.

# 

# S362A060038 -- Partners in Development (Honolulu)

Project *Tütü and Me: Ola Nä 'Ohana* will identify, recruit, and provide
services to Hawaiian children and caregivers in cooperation with
churches, schools, and community organizations serving the Hawaiian and
Part-Hawaiian community. The project will provide quality learning
opportunities for young children; education and support for their
caregivers; health education and assessment, including prenatal advice
and counseling to expectant mothers; and implementation of assessment
measures to quantify the program's impact on both preparing children for
formal school and educating their caregivers.

#### S362A060040 -- University of Hawaii, Maui Community College (Maui)

The Liko A'e Native Hawaiian Scholarship Program has a two-fold
mission: 1) to support Native Hawaiian students' entry into and
completion of a program of higher education, and 2) to sustain the cycle
of improvement among Native Hawaiians through education. Liko A'e
project services and strategies enable Native Hawaiians to enter and
complete programs of postsecondary education. As a result, the Native
Hawaiian graduates are able to contribute and sustain growth and
development in their communities.

### S362A060042 -- University of Hawaii, Center on Disability Studies (Honolulu)

The ultimate goal of the Kïwila Project is to increase the proportion of
Native Hawaiian youth and adults who are knowledgeable about and
actively engaged in civic affairs as the basis for improving educational
and employment outcomes. The project will develop and field-test civics
curricula for grades 4, 8, and 12. The curricula will be culturally
responsive to the needs of Native Hawaiian students and based on
principles of differentiated instruction and universal design for
effective use with students of all ability levels and learning styles.
The project is a partnership effort between curriculum developers and
researchers at the University of Hawai'i\'s Center on Disability Studies
and mentors and cultural experts with ALU LIKE, Inc., a non-profit
agency providing social services to Native Hawaiians.

### S362A060047 -- Kanu o ka 'Aina Learning 'Ohana---Halau Wanana (Kamuela)

The *Hälau Wänana: Native Hawaiian Center of Higher Learning* project
aims to: 1) fully license 12 native Hawaiian teachers by the summer of
2009, making them "highly qualified"; 2) assist 100 native Hawaiian
teachers to meet their HTSB re-licensing requirements by the summer of
2009, allowing them to remain "highly qualified"; 3) create bilingual
instructional materials, including a set of bilingual K-3 leveled
readers designed to improve literacy among native Hawaiian students; and
4) implement a statewide indigenous action research project involving
over 1000 native Hawaiian students that is designed to improve native
student performance in reading, math, science, and other areas.

S362A060048 -- University of Hawaii/Manoa-SEED Office of Student Affairs
(Honolulu)

The *PALS* project will implement a high-quality, research-based
afterschool literacy program in six predominantly Native Hawaiian
elementary schools (60% or higher Native Hawaiian enrollment) on Oahu
and will evaluate the effectiveness of the program on student literacy
skills and attitudes. In addition, the project will target public
elementary schools in the "restructuring" phases and involve culture-
and place-based activities to promote greater understanding and
absorption of academic subject matter. It will provide empirical
evidence as to whether culture-and place-based activities that are
incorporated into an afternoon literacy program are an effective
strategy to increasing the academic outcomes of Native Hawaiian
students.

#### S362A060051 -- Partners in Development (Honolulu)

*Nā Pono No Nā 'Ohana* is an innovative, family-based education project
that uses an intergenerational approach to learning, focusing on the
entire family rather than on adults and children separately. It brings
the extended family into the learning process to improve adult education
and parenting skills and to prepare young children to succeed in school.
Adults learn supportive parent-child interaction, responsibilities as
citizens of a larger community, and a means to improve their own
educational and career opportunities. Children receive a progressive
early childhood education. Families join together in class settings to
practice what they learn. Project success is measured by: 1) parents
becoming more actively involved in their children's education and
pursuing for themselves a high school diploma, postsecondary education
and/or employment where appropriate; and 2) children being better
prepared to enter and succeed in kindergarten.

# S362A060054 -- College Connections (Honolulu)

The Native Hawaiian Scholars Program is a statewide project that will
prepare Hawaiian teens to complete high school and succeed in college by
combining academic support with cultural enrichment. Project objectives
include recruitment of 500 eligible students; provision of culturally
responsive activities that integrate Hawaiian values with academic
achievement, making families aware and supportive of the college
preparation process; assessing each participant's academic needs and
providing support when needed; helping students to apply to
postsecondary programs and financial aid; and providing continuing
academic and financial counseling during college.

### S362A060055 -- Educational Services Hawaii Foundation (Honolulu)

This project plans to develop an outreach learning center for Native
Hawaiian youth who are in foster care and who are currently certified to
participate in a special education curriculum. The project will focus on
providing intensive supplementary educational services that integrate
Native Hawaiian culture and belief with social and emotional issues of
attachment, grief and loss and the workings of the mind and brain.
Project outcomes include improvement in school attendance by 25% by end
of year one; decreases in the discrepancy between student performance
level and the chronological grade level; and decreases in school dropout
rate, expulsions, and suspensions.

### S362A060056 -- Hawaii Department of Education (Honolulu)

The *Papa Honua: Student, Teacher, and Family Literacy Project* seeks
to: 1) improve student language arts and math competencies by providing
intensive and focused learning activities for students, including a
month-long readiness programs for students entering K-1, in small
student subgroups complementary to, and simultaneous with, regular
classroom instruction; 2) increase teachers' Hawaiian language
instructional fluency in language arts and math by engaging specialists
who conduct professional development workshops throughout the school
year; 3) encourage a strong student support system by utilizing
traditional Hawaiian ways of doing and knowing, seamlessly linking home
and family as a meaningful part of formal education and the academic
curriculum; 4) increase conversancy and fluency in the Hawaiian
Language; 5) develop a curriculum that educates students through their
heritage, language, and culture; and 6) maintain strong linkages with
doctoral-level graduate students and University of Hawaii faculty for
consultation and research.

### S362A060059 -- Pacific American Foundation (Honolulu)

####### The M_lama Kaho\`olawe: Native Hawaiian Culture-and Place-Based Curriculum 

######## Addressing Math and Science project will meet the educational needs of Native Hawaiian youth and adults from at-risk communities through the development and implementation of culture and place-based academic and vocational curricula that incorporates mathematics, science, and other core academic subjects. The project objectives are: 1) to develop culture-and place-based academic and vocational curricula that involves academic rigor, equity, and developmental appropriateness; 2) to train 150 teachers and 4 vocational instructors to implement the culture-and place-based curricula; and 3) to assess learning outcomes for 450-625 intermediate and high school students and 25 Native Hawaiian high school graduates participating in the project. 

### S362A060060 -- Pacific American Foundation (Honolulu)

This project will improve educational outcomes and increase leadership
development in Native Hawaiian at-risk youth through promoting civic
activism and by drawing on community and cultural resources for
emotional and social support. The project objectives are: 1) to develop
and implement a quality youth leadership development program for Native
Hawaiian youth from at-risk communities; 2) to train Native Hawaiian
adults from at-risk communities as youth leadership mentors; 3) to train
Native Hawaiian youth from at-risk communities as leaders; and 4) to
assess the leadership, educational, and psychological outcomes of youth
participants.

#### S362A060072 -- Partners in Development (Honolulu)

This project, in collaboration with the University of Hawaii College of
Engineering and the Archimedes Hawaii Project, plans to effect a
systemic change in the education of at risk Native Hawaiian middle
school children in the area of physical science, relating to electronics
and technology. Families will participate in the process of learning
science at school, which will empower them to continue to learn at home.
Additionally, the project will provide teacher training for Native
Hawaiian science and math teachers that provides a template for
integrating standards based science and math requirements with hands-on
electronics lessons.

#### S362A060074 -- Waianae High School Alumni and Community Foundation (Waianae)

*Homaipa\'a kumua\'o hi\'ipualena*, a community-driven project developed
by Waianae High School Alumni and Community Foundation (WHSACF), in
partnership with Waianae High School (WHS), aims to build an innovative
Human Resource Management System (HRM System) that recruits, trains, and
retains highly qualified teachers for WHS, its students and the
Wai\`anae community. The project will develop a HRM System that
integrates and aligns: 1) clear expectations for teacher performance; 2)
a marketing and outreach campaign to recruit highly qualified teachers
for WHS, including teachers of Native Hawaiian ancestry and from the
Waianae community; 3) a web- based data portal system that tracks
teacher self-assessment data, professional development plans, and
performance outcomes; 4) a professional development program that
provides teachers with career-focused opportunities for professional
growth and advancement; 5) an induction program for new teachers that
includes an orientation retreat and mentors for new teachers; and 6)
recruitment and retention incentives, including signing bonuses, teacher
housing, success rewards, and Bachelor and Master Degree programs at
WHS.