Wahiaw\u0101 Value-Added Product Development Center<\/a>\u00a0held its grand opening last month. The 33,000-square-foot manufacturing facility is a joint project between Leeward Community College and the state to serve as a place for local entrepreneurs to incubate their business through access to small business resources, production kitchens and in-house product and process development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n“The facility is intended for education,\u201d Nishimura said, making the location a perfect venue for the competition. \u201cA lot of our kids are entrepreneurial in their own way, so we really want to support that \u2026 If it adds value using local products, better yet because we\u2019re keeping it local. And they\u2019re very creative. Whatever they\u2019re creating for their culinary dish \u2013 if we can enhance that and make it a business, hopefully this has sparked something in them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Alternative Learning Programs, Services and Supports (ALPSS), which was formerly known as Comprehensive School Alienation Program, strives to provide supportive and nurturing environments that help students to grow, thrive, overcome challenges, and rise above adversity to succeed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
ALPSS assists at-promise students to improve their academic competencies and enable them to meet HIDOE-adopted state standards and graduation requirements. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Within the ALPSS setting, innovative instructional strategies are applied to re-engage and engage students in learning. Students are assisted in developing appropriate behaviors and social-emotional competencies. ALPSS provides transitional support services as at-promise students move from school to alternative programs, re-enter school successfully, graduate from high school, and prepare for positive post-secondary outcomes. Parent engagement is an essential part of the program and is consistent with the goal of partnering with the family\/parents as a member of the ALPSS team. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
ALPSS supports students who are experiencing difficulty in their traditional learning environment (classrooms or schools), and who may be better served at the school-level Empowerment Opportunity (EO) or complex area\/district level Alternative Learning Opportunity (ALO). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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WAHIAW\u0100 \u2014 Students from Kohala High School\u2019s alternative learning program, Na\u2018au Oiwi, defended their winning title in the second annual Kalo Challenge hosted by the Hawai\u2018i State Department of Education\u2019s\u00a0Alternative Learning Programs Branch\u00a0at the brand new Wahiawa Value Added Product Development Center on Friday. The Kalo Challenge is the finale of a yearlong project where […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","wp_popup_display_lightbox":0,"wp_popup_suppress":"","wp_popup_trigger":"","wp_popup_trigger_amount":0,"wp_popup_disable_on_mobile":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":21,"label":"News"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"Chanel Honda","author_link":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/haw\/author\/chanel-hondak12-hi-us\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":21,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":21,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":306,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":21,"category_count":306,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 17:42:49","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"post_status","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/haw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/haw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/haw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/haw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/haw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/haw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/haw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/haw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/haw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}