Location:
Ka Lama Education Academy is located in Leeward Community College - Wai'anae
Campus.
Leeward Community College - Wai'anae Campus
86-088 Farrington Highway, Suite 201
Wai'anae, HI 96792
Key Contacts:
Barbra A. Kaimuloa Bates, Community Counselor and Coordinator
Phone: (808) 696-8312 Fax: (808) 696-4024
Address: 86-088 Farrington Highway, Suite 201
Wai'anae, HI 96792
E-mail: bkaimuloa@aol.com
Larrilynn Holu Tamashiro, Community Counselor and Coordinator
Phone: (808) 696-8312 Fax: (808) 696-4024
Address: 86-088 Farrington Highway, Suite 201
Wai'anae, HI 96792
E-mail: larrilynn@lava.net
Sherlyn Franklin Goo, Project Director and INPEACE Director
Phone: (808) 262-7650 Fax: (808) 262-7650
E-mail: inpeace@flex.com
Kathryn H. Au, University Coordinator
Phone: (808) 956-9828
E-mail: kathryna@hawaii.edu
Leeward Community College - Wai'anae Campus
Phone: (808) 696-6378 Fax: (808) 696-4024
Address: 86-088 Farrington Highway, Suite 201
Wai'anae, HI 96792
Ka Lama has a community advisory board, composed of community leaders and three student representatives, Native Hawaiians who grew up on the Wai'anae Coast. In June 1998, the advisory board members generated the idea for the Education Academy. Rather than waiting for Native Hawaiians to come through the pipeline, why not create a pipeline for them into the teaching profession?
The Ka Lama Education Academy began operations in October 1998 at its offices at the Leeward Community College - Wai'anae Campus.
The Education Academy is administered by the Institute for Native Pacific Education and Culture (INPEACE). Primary funding is from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Administration for Native American programs (matched by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs). In-kind and other contributions are received from Leeward Community Education, Hawai'i State Teachers Association, Hawai'i Community Foundation, Atherton Family Foundation, Kaala Farm and INPEACE.
Why was the Education Academy formed?
The advisory board saw it as a way of increasing the number of community residents who could become teachers. The Education Academy will assist Native Hawaiians in receiving their associate's degrees, a two year program run in collaboration with Leeward Community College - Wai'anae Campus. The academy's graduates will then apply for admission to the College of Education, University of Hawai'i, so they can enter the Ka Lama teacher education cohort. After two years, they will receive bachelor's degrees in education and become certified teachers, ready to enter classrooms on the Wai'anae Coast.
Previous experience has shown the need for adding the Education Academy to Ka Lama. Too few residents of the Wai'anae Coast have the college credits to be admitted as juniors to the College of Education. In the first two cohorts of Ka Lama, despite extensive recruitment efforts, a total of only 11 out of 58 students were residents of the Leeward Coast. Because it is evident that residents are not coming through the pipeline, it was decided that Ka Lama needed to create its own pipeline, in the form of the Education Academy.
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Funded by the US DOE Native Hawaiian Curriculum, Teacher Training,
and Recruitment Grant
Designed and Developed by:
Ka Lama I, II and III students and R. Pi'ilani Hussey
Ka'aloa and Moku Ka'aloa