Northwest education reform workshop

1. Leadership Involvement in
Education Reform
Vidalino Raatior, M.A.
Director, Pacific Islander Student Center
University of Hawaii at Hilo

2. Agenda
1) Reclaiming Our
Humanity
2) Northwest
Unified School
3) Our Schools
• Vision
• Curriculum
• Calendar
• Staffing
4) Next Step

3. Reclaiming our Humanity
1) Our Names
 God’s gift to our
ancestors
 European colonizers
= Christian
evangelizers
 Indigenous cultures
= Devil
 Raatiorization of
Jones
2) Our Cultures
3) Our Values

4. Northwest Unified Schools
1) Education
vsEChuukation
2) Educate = educere
(Latin) = bring out, lead
forth
3) Educate = __________
(Fanapi) = __________

5. Our Schools
What is our vision (alikon) for
ourechuukatedNorthwest Unified
Schools graduates? (JHET 107 / 102)

6. Our Curriculum
What values do we to us as a people to
include in our curriculum?

7. Our Calendar
What is our academic calendar or
schedule?

8. Our Staff
What will distinguish our staff from
others in Chuuk State?

9. Northwest Education Center
Council of Advisors Chief of
(urha) Schools
Pattiw Pafeng Weito
Supervisor Supervisor Supervisor

10. Next Steps
1) Taskforce to meet
in Weno (July 16-
21, 2012)
2) Weipat renaming
3) NGO charters,
bylaws,

11. Fanapi Center NGO
Pattiw
Weito Pafeng