Game Changer Series: Navigating the Pandemic - A Courageous Conversation About COVID
Date: October 21, 2021
Time: 4:00-5:00 PM Hawaii / 7:00-8:00 PM Pacific
Location: Online via Zoom
Cost: Free!
In the midst of a global challenge, finding support, seeking solutions, and sharing our truths can be quite powerful. Bring your own thoughts, wonderings and strategies for what we are sure will be a deep and uplifting discussion with an amazing panel of educators!
Featuring:
Mari Jones is the Director of the Deeper Learning Hub and an Improvement Facilitator for the Care Network at the Center for Research on Equity and Innovation (CREI) at High Tech High Graduate School of Education. She teaches Foundations of Classroom Culture and Foundations of Student Centered Teaching to pre-service teachers at the San Diego Teacher Residency at HTH GSE. She was an elementary educator for 14 years and turned her attention to supporting educators after focusing her M.Ed. Educational Leadership research on the use of collegial coaching to support the development of social emotional educators. She believes education is a form of activism and is passionate about promoting social change by empowering youth.
Dr. Amber Strong Makaiau is a Specialist at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (UHM) College of Education Institute for Teacher Education Secondary Program, the Director of the Hanahau’oli School Professional Development Center, and the Director of Curriculum and Research at the UHM Uehiro Academy for Philosophy and Ethics in Education. She has a BA in Psychology and Education from the University of California, Santa Cruz, a Masters in Education and Teaching from UHM, and a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction from UHM. She is a dedicated practitioner of philosophy for children Hawai‘i who achieved National Board Certification while teaching secondary social studies in the Hawaii State Department of Education for over ten years. She is also an award-winning educator who achieved the Hawaii International Education Week Honolulu Advertiser 2004 Outstanding Global Educator Award, the 2005 Oceanic Outstanding Educator Award, the 2011 Teaching Tolerance Award for Excellence in Culturally Responsive Teaching, the 2016 C3 Teachers Inquiry Design Model Challenge Award, and the 2017 National Council for the Social Studies College and University Faculty Assembly Kipchoge Neftali Kirkland Social Justice Paper Award. Her current projects apply progressive, multicultural, culturally responsive, social justice, and democratic approaches to education for the purpose of a better future society. This includes a brand new Progressive Philosophy and Pedagogy MEd Interdisciplinary Education, Curriculum Studies Program at UHM.
Andrew Ho is the Charles William Eliot Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is a psychometrician whose research aims to improve the design, use, and interpretation of test scores in educational policy and practice. Ho is known for his research documenting the misuse of proficiency-based statistics in state and federal policy analysis. He has also clarified properties of student growth models for both technical and general audiences. His scholarship advocates for designing evaluative metrics to achieve multiple criteria: metrics must be accurate, but also transparent to target audiences and resistant to inflation under high stakes.
Ho is a director of the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. He completed his 8-year term as a member of the National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB) in 2020. He has chaired the research committee for the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning (VPAL) at Harvard University, which governed research on "massive" open online courses (MOOCs). He holds his Ph.D. in educational psychology and his M.S. in statistics from Stanford University. Before graduate school, he taught middle school creative writing in his hometown of Honolulu, Hawaii, and high school physics and AP physics in Ojai, California.
Hosted by Susannah Johnson (Director of Global Curriculum and Coaching Development, What School Could Be) and Kapono Ciotti (Executive Director, What School Could Be)!
This event is part of the Game Changer Series, a collection of conversations between the team at What School Could Be and some of the leading education change makers. Make sure to check out all the events in the series. Just look for the What School Could Be: Game Changer Series in the app.