ʻOihana Hoʻonaʻauao o ka Mokuʻāina ʻo Hawaiʻi

Ka ʻOihana Hoʻonaʻauao o ke Aupuni Hawaiʻi

Loaʻa i ʻeono mau kumu aʻo HIDOE ka makana kiʻekiʻe o ka lāhui no nā kumu ʻepekema a me ka makemakika

HONOLULU — ʻEono mau kumu kula aupuni o Hawaiʻi i loaʻa i ka Pelekikena no ka Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST), ka makana kiʻekiʻe loa o ka lāhui i loaʻa i ke kumu ʻepekema, ʻenehana, ʻenekinia, makemakika, a/a i ʻole ke kumu ʻepekema kamepiula no ke aʻo maikaʻi ʻana ma ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa, ua hoʻolaha ʻo Pelekikena Joe Biden i kēia pule.

ʻO ka poʻe Hawaiʻi i loaʻa:

  • Whitney Aragaki, ke kula kiʻekiʻe o Waiākea
  • ʻO Jessica Barbera, ke kula haʻahaʻa ʻo Thomas Jefferson
  • Michael Ida, ke kula kiʻekiʻe ʻo Kalani
  • Gregory Kent, ke kula haʻahaʻa o Kailua
  • Karleen Lynch, Kula Nui o Pearl City
  • Sarah Milianta-Laffin, Ke Kula Kūwaena ʻo ʻIlima

ʻO Karleen Lynch lāua ʻo Sarah Milianta-Laffi kekahi o ka 2023 cohort of awardees; ʻO Jessica Barbera lāua ʻo Gregory Kent kekahi ʻāpana o nā makana 2022; a ʻo Whitney Aragaki lāua ʻo Michael Ida kekahi ʻāpana o ka hui 2021. Ua hoʻolaha pū ʻia nā mea i loaʻa i ka Pōʻakahi e ka Hale Paʻa.

Six Hawai‘i public school educators received the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST), the nation’s highest award that a science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and/or computer science teacher may receive for outstanding teaching.

Aia lākou ma waena o nā kumu aʻoaʻo a me nā kumu aʻoaʻo 336 mai ka ʻāina a pau i koho ʻia e ko lākou poʻo kumu, nā kumu, nā mākua, nā haumāna a i ʻole nā lālā o ka lehulehu no ka lawelawe ʻana ma ke ʻano he kumu hoʻohālike i kā lākou mau hoa hana, ka hoʻoikaika ʻana i ko lākou kaiāulu a me nā alakaʻi i ka hoʻomaikaʻi ʻana i ka hoʻonaʻauao STEM.

“Ma ka inoa o ke Keʻena Hoʻonaʻauao o ka Mokuʻāina ʻo Hawaiʻi holoʻokoʻa, ke hāʻawi aku nei au i koʻu hoʻomaikaʻi nui ʻana i kā mākou mau kumu hoʻonaʻauao kūʻokoʻa ʻeono i ka loaʻa ʻana o kēia hanohano aupuni hanohano," i ʻōlelo ai ʻo Superintendent Keith Hayashi. “ʻO kā lākou hoʻolaʻa ʻana i ka hoʻoulu ʻana i ka hana hou a me ka maikaʻi i ka hoʻonaʻauao STEM ʻaʻole i hoʻoulu ʻia i kā lākou haumāna wale nō akā i kā lākou mau hoa a me nā kaiāulu a puni ʻo Hawaiʻi. He hōʻike kēia ʻike i kā lākou kūpaʻa i ka hoʻomākaukau ʻana i kā mākou mau haumāna no ka wā e hiki mai ana o nā hiki palena ʻole. "

Loaʻa i ka poʻe i loaʻa kahi palapala i hoʻopaʻa inoa ʻia e Pelekikena Joe Biden, he huakaʻi i Wakinekona, DC, e hele i nā hanana hoʻohanohano a me nā manawa hoʻomohala ʻoihana, a me kahi makana $10,000 mai ka National Science Foundation.

Hoʻohui pū ka poʻe i loaʻa i kahi pūnaewele ikaika o nā kumu hoʻonaʻauao maikaʻi mai ka ʻāina holoʻokoʻa. Mai ka makahiki 1983, ʻoi aku ma mua o 5,500 mau kumu i ʻike ʻia no kā lākou mau haʻawina i loko o ka lumi papa a me kā lākou ʻoihana. Hōʻike ka poʻe makana i ke akamai a me ka hoʻolaʻa ʻana o nā kumu o ka lāhui, a hōʻike i ka hopena maikaʻi o nā kumu maikaʻi loa i ka holomua o nā haumāna.

Ua hoʻokumu ʻia ka Pelekikena Pelekikena no ka Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching e ka ʻAhaʻōlelo ma 1983 a ʻike i nā kumu a me nā kumu aʻoaʻo he 110 i kēlā me kēia makahiki mai nā mokuʻāina 50 a pau, Wakinekona, DC, Puerto Rico, nā kula ʻo Department of Defense Education Activity and the US territory (American Samoa, Guam, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, a me US Virgin Islands).