‘My first year as a special education teacher’ by Liann Sanerivi
"Having just come from student teaching and graduating, I felt that I was set and ready to take on the world and my own classroom. I was not prepared for the feeling of failure."
National consortium allows candidates to pursue PhD in special education for free
The University of Hawaii at Manoa's College of Education is partnering with the University of Connecticut Early Childhood Consortium to develop experts in early childhood intervention for infants and young children with high-intensity needs because of significant intellectual and developmental disabilities.
BOE approves $14.7 million in shortage differentials to start next month
DOE, BOE leaders commit to a multi-phased approach to help end the teacher shortage crisis.
Millions worth of differentials make up first phase of plan to end teacher shortage crisis
The proposals to address compression, create shortage differentials for SpEd and Hawaiian language immersion educators and expand hard-to-staff bonuses are a positive step forward in the HSTA's five-year plan to end the statewide teacher shortage crisis.
SpEd teachers say more prep time, pay would help ease special ed teacher shortage
The National Council on Teacher Quality reports at least 35 of the major school districts across the country already offer SpEd teachers a financial bonus of some kind, ranging from $5,000 to $10,000 a year. Hawaii offers no pay differential for SpEd teachers.