Brown Bag Biography with Whitney Aragaki

The Center for Biographical Research presents: / “In Community with Our Shared Place: A Teacher’s Journey” / Whitney Aragaki (she/they), 2022 Hawaiʻi State Teacher of the Year, 2022 National Teacher of the Year Finalist / In this talk, Whitney will share her continued teaching journey from her background as a Hawaiʻi public schools graduate through her experiences as the 2022 Hawaiʻi State Teacher of the Year and a National Teacher of the Year Finalist. She will discuss her experience of sharing the message of place-based education and the articulation of ʻāina aloha, machizukuri, and Hawaiʻi to a national audience. / Whitney Aragaki (she/they) is an educator, parent, and learner from Hilo, Hawaiʻi. She supports students to learn through a lens of abundance that honors place, people and cultures. Her teaching focuses around conversations, practices and systems that sustain the intimate inter-relationship of public education, community and environment. / Thursday, November 17 / Zoom / 12 noon to 1:15PM HST / Zoom link: https://hawaii.zoom.us/j/98769665844 / Zoom Meeting ID: 987 6966 5844 / Password: 774603

Event Sponsor
Center for Biographical Research, Mānoa Campus

More Information
Caroline Zuckerman, (808) 956-3774, gabiog@hawaii.edu, https://blog.hawaii.edu/cbrhawaii/, Enter Title Here (PDF)

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