Welcome back and hope everyone had a restful and relaxing Thanksgiving break!
Congratulations to Carol Shikada as effective Wednesday, December 1st., she will be starting in her new role as Kauai Complex Area Academic Officer. Carol's vast experience ranges from a classroom Teacher, Vice-principal, Principal, School Renewal Specialist, and currently the Director for Student Support Branch within OCISS. Kauai schools are very fortunate to have someone of such experience and talent return home.
Over the next two weeks, students will be taking the Hawaii State Assessment portion for the Language Arts/Reading and Science. With the immediate feedback as to how our students are progressing, will be having content area teachers visit our data room to review students' results and strategize re-teaching focus areas.
Administration will be continuing with classroom visitations this week. Please note that we are monitoring "bell-to-bell" instruction and also listening for higher level questioning where students are challenged to think, respond, and produce work of such quality.
Thank you for dedicated efforts in helping Kapaa High School is second to none in providing "all" students with quality education.
Academic/Financial plans: Attached are the draft for SY 2011-12 and key talking points visual. As shared, please review and provide any feedback thru your department chair. Appreciate feedback to date from a couple of our department chairs. Kapaa High's Ac/Fin plan will also go thru a "peer review" by the Complex Area office this Friday from 8 - 12:00 p.m.
Smaller Learning Community (Laulima): Attached are the responses to the questions received from the November 17th faculty meeting. Should you have further questions, feel free to share them through your Dept. Chair and will respond as soon as possible.
Common Core Standards: Asked by several teachers to resend the information on the "crosswalks" between the Common Core State Standards and the Hawaii Content & Performance Standards (HCPS III). Crosswalk information can be found at this website http://standardstoolkit.k12.hi.us/index.html and click on DOCUMENT LIBRARY. I was able to verify with both Educational Math Specialist Dewey Gottlieb and Educational Language Arts Specialist, Dr. Petra Schatz that the Office of Curriculum Instruction and Student Support (OCISS) will be conducting professional development beginning second semester and into next school year.
Principals & Vice-Principals Mtgs: Effective January 2011, Kauai Complex Area principals' mtg will be move to the fourth Tuesday of the month January 25th and vice-principals' mtgs will be held on the fourth Thursday January 27th. Reason is to avoid conflicts with the State level mtg changes for the Personnel Regional Officers, and District Educational (SPED & SBBH) Specialists.
That's it and have a great week!
Daniel S. Hamada
Principal
Kapaa High School
4695 Mailihuna Road
Kapaa, Kauai, Hawaii 96746
PH: (808) 821- 4401 ext. 102
FAX: (808) 821- 4420
daniel_hamada@notes.k12.hi.us
"Wisdom is knowing the right path to take....integrity is taking it." M. H. McKee
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