HONOLULU โ The Hawaiสปi State Department of Education (HIDOE) today named 15 complex area teachers of the year and one charter school teacher of the year as finalists for the 2025 Hawaiสปi State Teacher of the Year recognition.
โEach of these educators utilize innovative approaches to cultivate high-quality environments of teaching and learning where students can thrive,โ Superintendent Keith Hayashi said. โTheir passion for teaching and unwavering dedication to student success inspire and elevate our students, staff, schools and communities.โ
The honored finalists, in alphabetical order, are:
Teacher | ๋ณตํฉ ์ง์ญ | ํ๊ต | Subject or Grade |
Leah สปAiwohi | ์นดํ์-์นด์ฐ์์ด-์์ด๋ฉ์ | ์นด์ฐ์์ด ํ์ด | Computer Science, STEM and Career Technical Education |
Ian Cablay | ๋ ์ด๋ ํ์-๋ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ผ๋-์์ด์๋ฃจ์ | Waialua High | Music/Band |
Tennelle Clark | ๋๋์ฟจ๋ฆฌ-์์ด์๋์ | ์์ด์๋์ ์ด๋ฑํ๊ต | 5ํ๋
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Lauren Collier | ์บ์ฌ ์นดํ์ฟ | Kaneโohe Elementary | ํน์๊ต์ก |
Robin Cone-Murakami Barros | Public Charter Schools | The School for Examining Essential Questions of Sustainability (SEEQS) | Art |
Leah Gouker | Kaโลซ-Keaสปau-Pฤhoa | Pฤhoa High | ์ฌํํ |
Nicole Laeha | ์นด์ผ๋ฃจ์-์นผ๋ผํค์ค | ์นด์ผ๋ฃจ์ ์ค๊ธ | Computer Science and Engineering Electives |
Karla โVivianaโ Martinez | ํธ๋
ธ์นด์-์ผ์๋ผ์ผํค-์ฝํ ๋ผ-์ฝ๋์์๋ย | ์ฝ๋์์๋ ๊ณ ๋ฑํ๊ต | ์์ด ์ธ์ด ์์ |
Jessie OโNeill-Prest | ๋ณผ๋์-์ผ์นด์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ผ-์ฟจ๋ผ๋ํ์ฝ์ด-๋ง์ฐ์ด | ํคํค์ด ์ด๋ฑํ๊ต | Curriculum Coordinator |
Jaime โKumu Evaโ Palakiko | ํ๋-๋ผํ์ด๋๋ฃจ๋-๋ผ๋'์ด-๋ชฐ๋ก์นด์ด | ๋ผํ์ด๋ ๋ฃจ๋ ๊ณ ๋ฑํ๊ต | Hawaiian Language, Hula, Hawaiian History |
Jonathan Peralto | ํ๋ก-์์ด์์ผ์ | ์์ด์์ผ์ ์ค๊ธ | ์ฌํํ |
Jennifer Sato | ์นด์ด๋ฌดํค-๋งฅํจ๋ฆฌ-๋ฃจ์ฆ๋ฒจํธ | ์ฟ ํ์ค ์ด๋ฑํ๊ต | Academic Coach |
Bryan Silver | ํจ๋งํด-์นด์ด์ -์นผ๋ผ๋ | ์นผ๋ผ๋ ํ์ดย | Career Technical Education: Engineering |
Erin Takamura-Luu | ์์ด์์-๋ชจ์๋ ๋ฃจ์-๋๋ํฌ๋ | ๋ ๋ํ ์ด๋ฑํ๊ต | 1ํ๋
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Sherry Tenn | ํ ์ํฐ-์์ดํํ | ์์ดํํ ๊ณ ๋ฑํ๊ต | Career Technical Education: Natural Resources |
Kim Virtudazo | ์บ ๋ฒจ-์นดํด๋ ์ด | ์บ ๋ฒจ ๊ณ ๋ฑํ๊ต | ์์ด ์ธ์ด ์์ |
In October, one teacher will be announced as the 2025 Hawaiสปi State Teacher of the Year and will go on to represent Hawaiสปi in the National Teacher of the Year program. The honor is presented annually to a teacher selected from more than 13,000 HIDOE educators.
