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About Kū ‘Āina Pā
Since 2012, The Kohala Center’s Kū ‘Āina Pā School Garden Teacher Training Program has graduated nearly 130 K-8 educators who have gone on to become pioneers and champions for garden-based learning in Hawai‘i’s schools. Kū ‘Āina Pā can support your school to create and sustain a garden-based ecoliteracy program, and strengthen your teaching and learning practices by connecting to a strong community of like-minded colleagues.
About the Hawai‘i School Garden Curriculum Map
Our Hawai‘i School Garden Curriculum Map (HSGCM) was launched in 2016 after four years of development by a working group of 14 Kū ‘Āina Pā master teachers. The HSGCM support elementary- and middle-school teachers in obtaining the knowledge and skills needed to develop integrated lesson plans and assessment tools that connect Common Core, NGSS, Hawai‘i Health Standards, and STEM learning opportunities with school garden activities and classroom extensions.
School learning gardens as a platform for ʻāina-based education
using the Hawai‘i School Garden Curriculum Map as a guide
HAWAI‘I ISLAND:
June 4–7, 2018
E.B. de Silva Elementary School, Hilo
O‘AHU:
June 6–8, 2018
Visiting Windward, Leeward, and Honolulu school gardens
School learning gardens as a platform for ʻāina-based education using the Hawai‘i School Garden Curriculum Map as a guide are multi-day workshops for Hawai‘i’s K–8 teachers to connect school garden activities to federal and state education standards.
What You’ll Get
This year’s Summer Intensives will introduce teachers to the Hawai‘i School Garden Curriculum Map and identify strategies to integrate it with the Hawai‘i State Department of Education’s Nā Hopena A‘o (HĀ) cultural framework. The trainings will address four fundamental components of teaching and learning in a school garden: A Sense of Place, Living Soil and Living Plant, Nourishment, and Nature’s Design. Participants will engage in daily hands-on experiences in gardening basics and have time to develop standards-based lessons and outlines for making school garden-to-classroom connections. We recommend that a team of at least two teachers from the same school attend to maximize interest and future participation.
Registration
Registration fees are $250 for one attendee or $200 per attendee for institutions sending teams of two or more. Fees include course materials and lunch each day. For O‘ahu enrollees, fees also include follow-up meetings and webinars.
»Register for Hawai‘i Island
»Register for O‘ahu
Scholarships
A limited number of scholarships is available for the O‘ahu session only. Contact Debbie Millikan at dmillikan@iolani.org or 808-223-7096 for more information.
PDE3 Credits
Three (3) PDE3 credits are available: “School learning gardens as a platform for ‘āina-based education using the Hawai‘i School Garden Curriculum Map as a guide.” PDE3 documents may be submitted digitally.
Questions?
Contact Betsy Cole at cole@kohalacenter.org or 808-887-6411.
Kū ‘Āina Pā Summer Intensives are presented by The Kohala Center in partnership with Māla‘ai: The Community Garden of Waimea Middle School, Pacific Resources for Education and Learning (PREL), Hawai‘i State Department of Health, ‘Iolani School, E.B. de Silva Elementary School, Kōkua Hawai‘i Foundation, Hawai‘i Public Health Initiative, The Green House, and the University of Hawai‘i Master Gardener Program.