{"id":8780,"date":"2025-02-03T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T22:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/?p=8780"},"modified":"2025-10-09T10:18:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T20:18:31","slug":"2025-kaua%ca%bbi-middle-school-counselor-named-2025-hawaii-school-counselor-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/sm\/2025-kaua%ca%bbi-middle-school-counselor-named-2025-hawaii-school-counselor-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Faufautua a'oga tulagalua Kaua'i na faaigoaina 2025 Hawai'i Faufautua Aoga o le Tausaga"},"content":{"rendered":"

O Noelani Butcher o le Tama'ita'i Sili o Kamakahelei Middle School i L\u012bhu'e na fa'aigoaina o le 2025 American School Counselor Association (ASCA) Hawai'i School Counselor of the Year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

O le ASCA School Counselor of the Year fa'ailoga e fa'amamaluina ai le au fa'apolofesa o lo'o tu'uina atu a latou galuega i le fautua mo tamaiti a'oga a le atunu'u ma fa'atalanoaina a latou atina'e tau a'oa'oga ma agafesootai-lagona ma mana'oga sauniuni i kolisi ma matata. Na fa'amasinoina i latou e fa'atatau i lo latou agava'a e faia suiga fa'apitoa i totonu o le a'oga faufautua.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cE maoae le aafiaga o faufautua o aoga i le taialaina o a tatou tamaiti aoga i totonu ma fafo atu o le potuaoga,\u201d o le saunoaga lea a Superintendent Keith Hayashi. \u201cFa\u2019amalo ia Noelani mo le avea o se fa\u2019ata\u2019ita\u2019iga lelei o le tu\u2019uina atu o tamaiti aoga i ni auala faigofie ma fa\u2019atasi e maua ai le lagolago latou te mana\u2019omia ina ia manuia ai a\u2019oga.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

"O le fesoasoani i tamaiti aoga ia ausia o latou gafatia ma tuuina atu ia i latou le lagolago ma le ta\u02bbita\u02bbiga i le a\u02bboga o le vaega pito sili lea ona tauia o la\u02bbu galuega," o le tala lea a Butcher, o le na te vaaia vasega valu. \u201cIna ua ou faalogo i tamaiti o talanoa e uiga i le auala na latou manumalo ai i se luitau patino ma talanoa lelei e uiga i lo latou lumanai ona o le taitaiga na ou tuuina atu ia i latou - o le mafuaaga lena ou te matua fiafia ai i le faufautua."<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Na faasoa mai e Butcher e faapea o le aoga tulagalua e mafai ona avea ma \u201ctaimi faigata pe a folau tamaiti aoga i le laufanua, iloa le tuputupu ae o le tagata lava ia, ma fausia sootaga,\u201d o lea na ia faia ai ni polokalama se lua i luga o le lotoa e tuu atu ai i tamaiti aoga se lagona o le auai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Noelani<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Ole Needs Closet ose faleteuoloa o mea'ai, mea tumama ma mea aoga e fa'atatau i mana'oga o tamaiti aoga. Sa galue foi o ia ma se faletupe o meaai i le lotoifale e saunia meaai mama mo tamaiti uma i le aoga. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

"O la\u02bbu sini autu o le fa\u02bbamalosia lea o le a\u02bboga a le matou a\u02bboga e ala i le fa\u02bbamalosia o 'ai maloloina ma tu\u02bbuina atu filifiliga taumafa paleni mo a tatou tamaiti a\u02bboga," o lana tala lea, ma fa\u02bbaopoopo mai talu mai le tu\u02bbuina atu o fualaau 'aina fou, fualaau faisua, ma meaai mama maloloina i aso uma i tamaiti aoga, ua lipotia mai e faiaoga o tamaiti aoga ua sili atu le gauai atu i le vasega ma sauni e aoao.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

O le isi polokalame na ia amataina o le "Da Gameroom," o se avanoa e mafai ai e tamaiti aoga ona fegalegaleai ma fiafia i taimi o malologa. I le Da Gameroom, e mafai e tamaiti a\u02bboga ona taaalo i le hockey i le ea, ping pong ma le vaitaele mo le tele o avanoa e fegalegaleai ai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cE le o tamaiti aoga uma e fiafia e taaalo i taaloga pe savalivali solo i taimi o latou malologa. O le Da Gameroom ose avanoa saogalemu lea e talia ai tamaiti aoga uma e taaalo ma feiloai i tagata fou, \u201do lana tala lea. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Butcher, faatasi ai ma isi 2025 faufautua aoga o le tausaga, sa aloaia i se sauniga ASCA i Washington, DC i Ianuari 30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

O Butcher sa avea ma faufautua aoga talu mai le 2011 ma o loo umia lona faailoga o le tagata malaga i Aoaoga Lautele ma se faailoga o le matuaofaiva i Aoga Faapitoa mai le Iunivesite o North Texas. E iai fo'i lona fa'ailoga matua'i i le Psychology-School Counseling mai le Iunivesite o Texas A&M ma maua ai lana Fa'ailoga Fa'atonu a le National Board mai le American School Counseling Association i le 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fa'amanatuina le Vaiaso Faufautua a le A'oga a le Atunu'u i le aso 3-7 Fep. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Noelani Butcher of Chiefess Kamakahelei Middle School in L\u012bhu\u02bbe was named the 2025 American School Counselor Association\u2019s (ASCA) Hawai\u2018i School Counselor of the Year. The ASCA School Counselor of the Year award honors professionals who devote their careers to advocating for the nation\u2019s students and addressing their academic and social-emotional development and college and career […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":29,"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-8780","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":"Stanley Lee","author_link":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/sm\/author\/stanley-leek12-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":311,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":21,"category_count":311,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-30 05:00:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"post_status","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/sm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/sm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/sm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/sm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/sm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/sm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/sm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/sm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/sm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}