Jill Meinecke2026-04-13T14:12:46-10:00April 13, 2026|Categories: News|Tags: bilingual, early college, Hawaii Island, HSTA Kona Chapter, internships, Kealakehe High School, linguistics, multilingual, Transformative Translations, translation|
At Kealakehe High School in Kailua-Kona on Hawaiʻi Island, multilingual students in grades 10-12 are taking dual high school and college credit courses to learn translation skills, thanks to a program called Transformative Translations.
Jill Meinecke2026-03-19T09:52:24-10:00March 17, 2026|Categories: News|Tags: donate, gofund me, Hawaii Island, Kaimukī High, Maui, Waiākeawaena Elementary|
The family of a retired public school teacher and her husband is appealing for the public’s help after the couple’s home was destroyed by floodwaters that turned Maui’s ʻĪao Valley Stream into a raging river during last weekend’s storm.
Jill Meinecke2025-09-22T14:13:31-10:00September 19, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: APC, APC rep, CBR, faculty representatives, Grievance rep, Hawaii Island, Hawaii State Department of Education, HIDOE, HSTA committees, Kaʻū-Keaʻau-Pāhoa Complex Area, Keaʻau High, Teacher of the Year|
Elise Hannigan, an English teacher at Keaʻau High on Hawaiʻi Island, received the state’s top teaching award from Gov. Josh Green and Schools Superintendent Keith Hayashi during a ceremony at Washington Place Friday afternoon.
Jill Meinecke2025-07-07T08:57:20-10:00July 7, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: Ellison S. Onizuka Memorial Award, Hawaii Island, Hawaiian immersion, kaiapuni ʻōlelo, kaipuni, Ke Kula ‘O Nāwahīokalaniʻōpuʻu Iki Public Charter School, National Education Association, Nāwahī, NEA, NEA Human and Civil Rights Awards|
Ke Kula ‘O Nāwahīokalaniʻōpuʻu Iki Public Charter School on Hawaiʻi Island was honored Wednesday night at the National Education Associationʻs annual Human and Civil Rights Awards Dinner in Portland, Ore.
Jill Meinecke2025-05-23T11:24:12-10:00May 22, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: Canva, CBS News, Dr. Pascale Creek Pinner, Hawaii Island, Hilo Intermediate, HSTA-Retired, Joel Truesdell, Jonathan Gillentine, Merrie Monarch, National Teachers Hall of Fame|
Hilo Intermediate science teacher Dr. Pascale Creek Pinner experienced the surprise of a lifetime when she found out that she’s being inducted into the National Teachers Hall of Fame.
Jill Meinecke2024-04-18T15:33:29-10:00April 18, 2024|Categories: News|Tags: Donate Life month, Hawaii Island, heart donor, Hilo Chapter, Hilo High, HSTA member, organ donor, Pāhoa High and Intermediate, Waiākea High School|
A former Hawaiʻi Island art teacher and Hilo Chapter HSTA member needs your help as he awaits a heart transplant.
Jill Meinecke2024-04-18T13:30:45-10:00April 15, 2024|Categories: News|Tags: 2024 STACY Award, Hawaii Island, Hope McKeen, HSTA Government Relations Committee, Keonepoko Elementary, professional development, STACY Award, Stacy Nishina|
The Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association recognized Hope McKeen, or Kumu Pualani to her students, a Hawaiian studies teacher at Keonepoko Elementary, with the 2024 STACY Award for Teaching Excellence.
Jill Meinecke2023-07-25T08:46:00-10:00July 24, 2023|Categories: News|Tags: ALPSS, Alternative Learning Programs, and Services, Donovan Dela Cruz, Hawaii Island, Hawaii State Senate, Herbert “Tim” Richards III, HIDOE, michelle kidani, Senate Education Committee, Student Empowerment and Leadership Conference, Supports, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa|
Several key Hawaiʻi state senators Friday attended the Student Empowerment and Leadership Conference hosted by the Hawaiʻi State Department of Education’s Alternative Learning Programs, Supports, and Services (ALPSS).
Jill Meinecke2023-02-28T21:20:28-10:00February 27, 2023|Categories: News|Tags: Audra Zook, Dru Kanuha, Glenn Gray, Hawaii Island, Hōlualoa Elementary School, Honoka‘a-Kealakehe-Kohala-Konawaena Complex Area, Janette Snelling, Jill Tokuda, Jr., Osa Tui|
Just a few days after the Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association disclosed long-time mold, rat and maintenance problems at Hōlualoa Elementary School on Hawaiʻi Island, state school officials began making concrete steps toward some short-term fixes.
Jill Meinecke2022-11-04T10:06:15-10:00November 4, 2022|Categories: News|Tags: FLYTE, Foundation for Learning Youth Travel Education, Hawaii Island, Iceland, Joʻel Nathansen, Keaʻau High School, Travel|
Many of Joʻel Nathansen’s students at Keaʻau High School haven’t left the state of Hawaiʻi, let alone the country. But a trip over the summer to Iceland made world travelers out of eight of her students during an all-expenses paid journey to the land of fire and ice.
