Jill Meinecke2025-12-19T15:03:50-10:00December 16, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: books, culture, EL, EL coordinator, EL students, EL teacher, English learners, Hanahau‘oli School, Hawaiʻi State Department of Education, Hawaii Department of Education, HIDOE, Kihei, Kihei Elementary, Maui, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa|
EL Coordinator Erin Kowalick and Mahala Quintana, an EL teacher, both of Kīhei Elementary, launched a “Culturally Relevant Books” project at their school, aiming to equip each classroom with diverse and culturally significant titles to help K-5 students see themselves on the pages.
kkerr@hsta.org2021-07-21T16:26:22-10:00July 21, 2021|Categories: News|Tags: Blaisdell Exhibition Hall, book giveaway, books, donation, Kids in Need Foundation, masks, NBC, Scholastic, thousands, vaccinations|
The Kids in Need Foundation and Scholastic are providing thousands of free new school books to teachers on July 22 and 23 at the Hawaii State Department of Education’s Back-to-School Book Giveaway at the Neal S. Blaisdell Exhibition Hall on Oahu.
