{"id":10014,"date":"2023-04-21T13:33:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T23:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/?p=10014"},"modified":"2026-03-24T10:59:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T20:59:21","slug":"2023-kau-high-amp-pahala-elementary-principal-sharon-beck-wins-25000-leadership-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/ko\/2023-kau-high-amp-pahala-elementary-principal-sharon-beck-wins-25000-leadership-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Ka\u02bb\u016b High &amp; P\u0101hala Elementary Principal Sharon Beck wins $25,000 leadership award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Masayuki Tokioka Excellence in School Leadership Award recognizes outstanding public school principals in Hawaii for their efforts in providing high-quality learning opportunities for students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ka\u2018\u016b High &amp; P\u0101hala Elementary\u00a0Principal Sharon Beck was named the winner of the 2023\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pshf.org\/masayuki-tokioka-excellence-in-school-leadership-award\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\ub9c8\uc0ac\uc720\ud0a4 \ud1a0\ud0a4\uc624\uce74 \ud559\uad50 \ub9ac\ub354\uc2ed \uc6b0\uc218\uc0c1<\/a>\u00a0at the Public Schools of Hawai\u2018i Foundation annual dinner on Thursday evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis tremendous recognition of Principal Sharon Beck is a recognition of her leadership at Ka\u2018\u016b&nbsp;High &amp; P\u0101hala Elementary,\u201d Superintendent Keith Hayashi said. \u201cIt\u2019s her ability to bring the community together, all in the spirit of helping not only students, but their families and the overall Ka\u2018\u016b community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPrincipal Sharon Beck rose to the top primarily because we were amazed by what she\u2019s been able to accomplish given the area that her school is located in,\u201d Island Insurance Foundation Chairman Tyler Tokioka said. \u201cThe location creates challenges that other principals may not face\u2026 the size of the area that she serves and the economic issues that the area can create logistical challenges, resource challenges, in addition to the normal learning challenges that all principals face.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beck was awarded $25,000 \u2013 a $10,000 personal cash award and $15,000 toward a school project of her choice. Beck hopes to use the school award money toward bluetooth devices that would provide students with access to learning in remote areas that may not have WiFi access.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis award, to me, is a team recognition,\u201d Beck said. \u201cI couldn\u2019t do this alone. It is the faculty, the staff \u2014 everyone at school that puts their heart and soul into our students.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two semi-finalists were also recognized \u2014 Kapolei High Principal Wesley Shinkawa and&nbsp;K\u014dloa&nbsp;Elementary Principal Leila Maeda-Kobayashi. Each semi-finalists received a $2,000 cash award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall, 15 HIDOE principals \u2014 one from each complex area \u2014 were honored as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/ko\/2023-15-hidoe-principals-honored-as-2023-tokioka-excellence-in-school-leadership-nominees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">nominees for the recognition<\/a>&nbsp;and each received a $1,000 prize.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ub9e4\ub144 \uc5f4\ub9ac\ub294 Tokioka Excellence in School Leadership Award\ub294 Island Insurance Company, Ltd.\uc758 \ucc3d\ub9bd\uc790\uc774\uc790 \ud558\uc640\uc774 \uacf5\ub9bd\ud559\uad50\ub97c \uc790\ub791\uc2a4\ub7fd\uac8c \uc878\uc5c5\ud55c \uace0 Masayuki Tokioka\ub97c \uae30\ub9ac\ub294 \uc0c1\uc785\ub2c8\ub2e4. 2004\ub144\uc5d0 \uc124\ub9bd\ub418\uc5c8\uc73c\uba70 Island Insurance Foundation\uc5d0\uc11c \ud6c4\uc6d0\ud569\ub2c8\ub2e4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Masayuki Tokioka Excellence in School Leadership Award recognizes outstanding public school principals in Hawaii for their efforts in providing high-quality learning opportunities for students. Ka\u2018\u016b High &amp; P\u0101hala Elementary\u00a0Principal Sharon Beck was named the winner of the 2023\u00a0Masayuki Tokioka Excellence in School Leadership Award\u00a0at the Public Schools of Hawai\u2018i Foundation annual dinner on Thursday [&hellip;]<\/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":"10412,9867,10227,16234,893,16644","_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-10014","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\/ko\/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 07:13:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"post_status","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19076,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10014\/revisions\/19076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}