KALALALŌKAHI 22-23

Kalalalokahi

Kauaʻi and Niʻihau 2022-2023 Year in Review

Contents

Summary

Highlights, Opportunities, Future Plans

Pilina

Maintaining Pilina

Makahiki Support for Our Kauaʻi Schools

Engaging with Department of Education

Kapālama Campus

Places

Kauaʻi and Niʻihau Community Hale

Partnerships

Kauaʻi Map of Partnerships

Mālama Hulēʻia Pilot with Kapaʻa Middle School

Boys and Girls Club of Hawaiʻi Tri-Clubhouse

Huakaʻi

Wilcox Memorial Hospital

Projects

Early Childhood Education Efforts on Kauaʻi

HeHaliaAlohaNo

Vairea Kahanulanialii Peneku

Summary

As a part of the Kauaʻi/Niʻihau community, our team is committed to strengthening & supporting opportunities to empower and influence the landscape of Kauaʻi, through aligned community collective work, purposeful partnerships, & supportive resources.

Our Kauaʻi & Niʻihau moku team engaged with kaiāulu to build and strengthen pilina in various ways including participating in leadership committees, focus groups, community events, partner experiences, Kapālama ʻohana events, sponsorship opportunities that aligned to our strategic goals, and many conversations with dedicated community advocates. We truly understand and believe that we represent Kamehameha Schools in the kaiāulu and that we represent Kauaʻi & Niʻihau within Kamehameha.

The Kauaʻi & Niʻihau moku team continued to partner with passionate ʻōiwi leaders in the various moku across Kauaʻi. These partners provided ample aloha ʻāina experiences helping our keiki, ʻohana, kaiāulu and lāhui to connect to and strengthen their Native Hawaiian identity and sense of kuleana to community and lāhui.

We often used the KS Community Hale to build, strengthen and support pilina within our moku. We had a wide range of partners and organizations utilizing the community hale to gather, teach, engage, innovate and strategize. We look forward to improving the scheduling tool so that more of our community might utilize and benefit from our space.

We also invested in projects that supported important community issues such as increased access to early learning and stabilizing the workforce on Kauaʻi. Kauaʻi & Niʻihau are island communities that model and champion working together for the betterment of all. Maikaʻi Kauaʻi - Hemolele i ka mālie. Kauaʻi is truly a beautiful island that is peaceful in the calm as we all work together to support and uplift our keiki, ʻohana and kaiāulu.

-Amber Kaliko Mokuahi

Community Strategist, Kauaʻi and Niʻihau

Highlights,FutureOpportunities, Plans

Highlights

Kauaʻi/Niʻihau is unique in the way it uses relationships as a foundation and forefront in the work that we do. The Kauaʻi community continues to be resilient and close-knit and building pilina is vital to trust, system change, and a vision of a thriving lāhui. Although Kamehameha Schools continues to be an educational institution, building a portfolio that targets, compliments, strengthens, and fills gaps in other existing systems is important to supporting and uplifting learners and their ʻohana. We continue to build relationships, invest, collaborate, partner, leverage and participate in various opportunities that have and can affect multiple outcomes to help collectively support,

engage, empower and better serve our community. By being highly engaged in the community and having a broader understanding of it, improving the way we serve our community with purposeful outreach and growing and establishing pilina we can begin to shift mindsets and strengthen perceptions. We were able to see small shifts this year in the early education landscape and the increase in aloha ʻāina opportunities for our youth through cultivated pilina and networks.

Opportunities

We continue to look for ways that we might engage more intentionally with our Niʻihau community. We understand that they might have unique needs, opportunities and

challenges that we are not currently addressing.

Although the two Niʻihau kula in Kekaha receive support from Kealaiwikuamoʻo, we hope to strengthen the pilina and kākoʻo that we provide to the overall Niʻihau community.

Future Plans

Our Kauaʻi & Niʻihau moku team will continue to look for ways to support and engage in efforts and initiatives in the four priority areas: early learning, college and career, aloha ʻāina and ʻōiwi leadership. As we support these initiatives we are working towards strengthening Native Hawaiian identity and the impact on aloha ʻāina towards ea on Kauaʻi & Niʻihau.

Building and Maintaining Pilina

EDUCATION

NHEducationCouncil

NHAdvisoryCouncil

GOVERNMENT

Destination ManagementAction Plan|Countyof Kauaʻi

HEALTH

DOHKauaʻi|Kauaʻi WellnessPartnership| WilcoxMemorial Hospital(HPH)

KELA|DOE|KSAK| SperlingCenterfor Research& Innovation

WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT

EmployerAdvisory Council|Chamberof Commerce

COMMUNITY ORGS

BigBrothers,Big Sisters|EPIC|HCF HIHOPES|VITA|

NATIVE HAWAIIAN ORGANIZATIONS

RoyalOrder| HAO(AluLike,OHA) |PihanaKaʻikena| KKOA|

KaHalePono

KauaʻiFamiliesFirst |AnainaHou| ResiliencyProject |UnitedWay

Figure 1. Systems and partners we actively engage in/with without any monetary contributions from KS (not an exhaustive list).

Our Kauaʻi/Niʻihau staff continues to value building relationships, investing, collaborating, partnering, leveraging and participating in various opportunities that have and can affect multiple outcomes to help collectively support, engage, empower and better serve our community.

By being highly engaged in the community and having a broader understanding of it, we can improve the way we serve our community with purposeful outreach and growing and establishing pilina so that we can begin to shift mindsets and strengthen perceptions.

We are thankful for the opportunities to engage with our Kauaʻi/Niiʻhau community to build pilina in FY23 and look forward to more opportunities in FY24.

EAT THE INVASIVES WaipāFoundation

ĀINA PAUAHI SERVICE DAY WaipāFoundation

ANAHOLA MOVIE NIGHT KūkuluKumuhanaOAnahola HI HOPES CHRISTMAS EVENT Lili

uokalaniTrust,HIHOPES, HaleʻŌpio

HARVEST FESTIVAL KIUC,GroveFarm,HawaiʻiFoodBank, KauaʻiResiliencyProject,etc.

KAUAʻI RESILIENCY PROJECT’S TRUNK OR TREAT KeikitoCareerKauaʻi,KukuiGrove Center,Etc.

HI HOPES OLYMPIC DAY

LiliʻuokalaniTrust,HIHOPES, HaleʻŌpio

BACK TO SCHOOL BASH

WilcoxHealth,Hawai‘iUSAFederalCredit Union,Kaua‘i’sCreditUnions,Target, KIUC

ClimbHI,KauaʻiHighSchools,Kauaʻi HotelsandResorts

PRINCE KŪHIŌ DAY CELEBRATION

HawaiianCivicClubs,HawaiianAgencies andOrganizations

PROJECT VISION SCREENINGS

ProjectVisionHawaiʻi,LionʻsClub, CountyofKauaʻi

BOWL FOR THE KIDS SAKE BigBrothers,BigSisters

HAUʻOLI LĀ HĀNAU E LILIʻUOKALANI

MĀLAMA KAUAʻI TREE DISTRIBUTION

CLIMBHI LEI CONFERENCE

KANUIKAPONO MOBILE OUTREACH

VolunteerIncomeTaxAssistance(VITA)

i Resource Center hosted Hawaiʻi Tax Help to offer the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program to our KS Kauaʻi families and Kauaʻi community. The Kauaʻi Resource Center served 79 Kauaʻi families through VITA.

PROJECT

MĀLAMA KAUAʻI FOOD DISTRIBUTION

NĀ KULA KAMALIʻI OPEN HOUSE

POI FOR THE PĒPĒ AT NĀ KULA KAMALIʻI

HPH INTERN WORK DAY WaipāFoundation,Mālama Hulēʻia,HPH,KumanoIKeAla

CHAMINADE & KAPAʻA HIGH SCHOOL

VISION'S GARDEN ISLAND GALA

The Kauaʻ

Engaging with Department of Education

HANALEI ELEMENTARY

In collaboration with Waipā Foundation, members of the KS Kauaʻi team supported Hanalei Elementary School at their Professional Learning Day on September 16, 2022. Amber Kaliko Mokuahi and Vairea Kahanu Peneku supported the Hanalei Elementary ʻOhana in creating a we-why statement and lei piko. It was a great day of learning about ʻāina-based education and working with community partnerships to develop and nurture thriving communities.

KAPAʻA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLOPENING DAY

Members of the KS Kauaʻi team supported Kapaʻa Elementary School's Opening Day on July 27, 2022 at Wailua River. Over 80 staff were able to engage in four different learning experiences including hoe waʻa, lupe, lei piko, and building waʻa with the overall goal to work together and strengthen their pilina and sense of place.

DOENEWTEACHER ORIENTATION

Members of the KS Kauaʻi team supported the DOE's New Teacher Orientation on July 21, 2022. Amber Kaliko Mokuahi and Vairea Kahanu Peneku supported new teachers in understanding the Teach with Aloha Framework ('ike pilina, 'ike honua, and 'ike pīkoʻu) that helps to foster culturally healthy and responsive learning environments within our DOE schools on Kauaʻi. Participants were able to process this new learning through an interactive Jenga game where they shared connections, questions, and resources around these concepts.

Makahiki Support for Our Kauaʻi Schools

Our Kauaʻi/Niʻihau moku team was able to support Kumano I Ke Ala and other community partners during eight (8) makahiki events for charter, D.O.E. and private schools across the island. Schools were able to learn about makahiki and its importance, as well as participate in a variety of games.

Our Kauaʻi Moku team was also able to assist at the D.O.E Kauaʻi Complex Area Administration's HĀ day on Saturday, March 4, 2023 at the National Tropical Botanical Garden in Lāwai.

Waimea High

Kekaha Elementary

Waimea Canyon Middle

Island School

Kawaikini

Wilcox Elementary

ʻAha Pūnana Leo

Chiefess

Kamakahelei Middle

Kapalama Campus

With 158 of our Kauaʻi haumāna at Kapālama campus, our Kauaʻi/Niʻihau staff continues to value building relationships and collaborating with our Kapālama ʻohana and the staff that support them. In October, our staff supported Campus and Community Education Program Support department (formerly Admissions) in preparation for SY23-24. The Kauaʻi region had approximately 120 applications for KSK grades 7 and 9-11. Kauai staff, with kōkua from Oʻahu staff from Support Services and Admissions did both testing and interviews from October 3-8, 2022.

NEWSTUDENT ORIENTATION

KamehamehaKauaʻi’s teamwelcomednew seventhandninthgrade inviteesinApril.Students andtheirʻohanaheard fromresidentiallife, middleandhighschool leadership,athletics, cashiersoffice,financial aid,admissions,Hālau Kūkalaulama,and KamehamehaSchools

AssociationofKauaʻi.Our Kauaʻiteamlooksforward togettingtoknowand workingwithournew inviteesandtheirʻohana.

RESIDENTIALLIFE ORIENTATION

Over40newandreturning Kaua'ifamiliesparticipated inadayofeventsplanned byResidentialLife,which hadtheintentionof extendingourKauaʻi partnershipsintothelives ofourKaua'i'ohana throughpūpaʻakai activities.Duringthe morning,ResidentialLife sharedapresentationwith newinvitefamilies attendingKSKapālamain August.Intheafternoon thosefamilieswerejoined bycurrentfamiliesina gatheringoffood.Hoʻōla LāhuiHawaiʻi,SeanChun, andMaliaChunofNāPua Noʻeausharedtheirʻikeon preparingmeaʻaipono.The intentionaltimecreatedto buildpilina,connectto Kauaʻi,andsharein learningwasatruesuccess.

UNIFORMSALE

OurKSKauaʻiCommunity Halehostedtheannual UniformFiteventforour KapālamastudentsinJune. Studentsandtheirʻohana wereabletomeetwith Lands'Endemployeesto try-onandpurchasenew uniformsfortheupcoming schoolyear.KSAK (KamehamehaSchools

AssociationofKauaʻi)used uniformcommitteeparents alsoparticipatedinthe event.Thecooperativeevent servedafullscheduleof studentsandfamilies excitedtoreturnto Kapālamaforthenew schoolyear.

Lumi

Kauaʻi Map of Partnerships

FY22-23

The following is a map of Kauai moku partnerships in FY22-23. Our Kauaʻi partners have the knowledge, skills, and resources to deliver high quality Hawaiian CultureBased Education and provide enriching opportunities for our Kauaʻi/Niʻihau keiki. Kauaʻi is still committed to supporting and investing in strong ʻāina partners with purposeful goals that strengthen our partner’s work, community, schools and educational outcomes that lead to fostering ʻōiwi environments and create ʻōiwi leaders.

We look forward to FY24 and implementing partnerships within our four (4) Kaiāulu priorities: early learning, aloha ʻāina, college and career, and ʻōiwi leadership.

CommunityHighlightsPartnerships

BoysandGirlsClubofHawai

Huaka

CICO

Boys and Girls Club of Hawaiʻi keiki had the opportunity to go to Kōkeʻe and engage in some makahiki games and other Hawaiian cultural experiences. Through this partnership between Kamehameha and Boys and Girls Club, Vairea Kahanu Peneku was able to mentor Breycinn Silva, who has shared his learnings with other staff members throughout the three clubhouses on Kaua'i. We look forward to continuing and building capacity through this partnership in order to create and nurture 'ōiwi leaders across Kauaʻi.

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@wilcox_health

"Students from Kapaa High School, Kauai High School and Waimea High School met with health care professionals from Wilcox Health and toured a working hospital setting at the Wilcox Health Career Fair on Nov. 18. The event was funded in part through a partnership with @kamehamehaschools to support health care workforce development on Kauai..."

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ʻiTri-Clubhouse

Malama Huleʻia and Kapaʻa Middle School Pilot

In partnership with Mālama Hulēʻia and the KS Kauaʻi/Niʻihau Moku team, Kapa'a Middle School completed a pilot program to integrate Mālama Hulēʻia’s online leaning platform with ʻāina visits and workdays.

Kapa'a Middle School faulty and staff participated in a professional development day on November 14, 2022. 570 haumāna then participated in six different ʻāina experiences at Alakoko. Prior to all the site visits, haumāna were able to complete Mālama Hulēʻiaʻs online curriculum. A total of 1,258 online units were accessed. One visit was cancelled due to weather, but Mālama Hulēʻia and KS Kauaʻi/Niʻihau staff were able to bring the learning to Kapaʻa Middle School by offering rotations on loko iʻa and pāʻani Hawaiʻi.

The program Mālama Hulēʻia is building provides a strong foundation for ‘āina based learning and Nā Hopena Aʻo rich environments leading to students who are culturally, intellectually, socially and emotionally connected.

Unit 1: Hoʻomākaukau PreparetoVisit Unit 2: Ka Wā Kahiko Stories Unit 3: Nā Loko Iʻa Fishponds

Unit 4: Nā Mea Kanu Plants Unit 5: Nā Manu Birds

Unit 6: He Laulima MovingForward

Early Childhood Education Efforts on Kauaʻi

NĀKULAKAMALIʻI OPENHOUSE

The Kauaʻi moku team assisted Nā Kula Kamaliʻi with their Kaumakani Preschool open house on November 5, 2022. The team provided a resource center table and made computers available for admissions application assistance as well as HVS processing. Twenty-nine families attended the open house, including existing KS preschool families and keiki.

ECEAPPRECIATION EVENT

Kamehameha Schools

Kauaʻi Community Hale hosted an early childhood education appreciation event in collaboration with Kauaʻi Planning and Action Alliance and PATCH on September 28, 2022. Pre-K directors were invited to gather in celebration of Child Care Provider Appreciation Month for the service that they provide for our community. Attendees were also able to discus areas of support that were most concerning to them as a group.

ECESTAKEHOLDER'S MEETINGS

Our Kauaʻi Community Hale hosted multiple ECE Stakeholder meetings throughout FY23. The purpose of these meetings was to build and strengthen pilina and networks, discuss the current ECE landscape and increase access to 3 & 4year-old learning opportunities. Turnout for these meetings were great, with representatives from PATCH, DOE, INPEACE, County of Kauaʻi, KS preschool, Kauaʻi Community College’s School of Early Learning, and Partners in Development. The ECE stakeholder hui will continue to meet quarterly and hope to host another ECE conference next year.

NĀKULAKAMALIʻI&WAIMEAHIGHSCHOOLVISIT

In an effort to stabilize the early learning workforce and support in the recruitment of new kumu, the Kauaʻi/Niʻihau moku team partnered with Nā Kula Kamaliʻi and Waimea High School to provide a workforce development opportunity. Three students from Waimea High School visited Nā Kula Kamaliʻi (NKK) at Kaumakani. Each shared how dedicated and engaged both kumu and haumāna were. One of the haumāna shared her desire to become an ECE educator in the future. We look forward to partnering with all three high schools and charter schools to provide them with opportunities for their students to engage with our NKK kula, perhaps becoming our future NKK kumu and staff.

FAMILY&CHILDFAIR

The KS Kauaʻi/Niʻihau moku team was happy to support the hundreds of ʻohana who attended the Parent and Child Fair. With more than 30 vendors and exhibitors offering interactive free activities spread throughout the shopping center, keiki and ʻohana were engaged and learning. ʻOhana were also made aware of the many resources that Kauaʻi has to offer. According to Jeanie Odo, the former DOE’s Sequenced Transition to Education in Public Schools (STEPS) program coordinator, the event was established with community partners 18 years ago with the goal of connecting parents and keiki to the resources available to them as they transition from home life to school, where the young ones remain as students until at least 18 years old. Both Jeanie as well as the multitudes of ʻohana who attended agreed that the event was truly a success in connecting keiki, parents and community members to available resources and partners.

ECE Conference

In partnership with Kauaʻi Community College, PATCH, Kauaʻi Planning and Action Alliance, and the KS Kauaʻi/Niʻihau moku team, the first annual Early Childhood Education conference took place on May 30, 2023 at Kauaʻi Community College.

With over 60 in attendance, participants were able to attend workshops on place based learning, personality social styles, difficult conversations, and creating ʻohana work environments. These workshops met required DHS professional development hours supporting our ECE workforce in staying current with best practices as well as licensing requirements. Participants also had the opportunity to go to Alakoko Fishpond to do ʻāina based learning withMālama Hulēʻia.

Our keynote speaker was the Lieutenant Governor Sylvia Luke who shared her inspiring Ready Keiki initiative that focuses on universal access to early learning for all of our keiki across the pae ʻāina. We look forward to supporting an annual ECE conference next year.

Farm to Keiki

Kamehameha Preschools, in collaboration with Farm to Keiki, Hawaiʻi Pacific Health, and the KS Kauaʻi Moku Team began to pilot Farm to Keiki for all six Kamehameha Schools Preschool classrooms on Kauaʻi. Farm to Keiki is a farm to early childhood education program that raises children who love to eat Hawai'igrown foods and who are about the ʻāina. They also focus on cultivating healthy families, healthy communities, and a healthy world. Farm to Keiki connects children to nature and shows them how to grow, prepare, and eat healthy foods. We look forward to continuing the pilot in FY24.

He Halia Aloha No

Vairea Kahanulanialii Peneku

April 29, 1986 - May 5, 2023

Luʻuluʻu Hanalei i ka ua nui; kaumaha i ka noe o Alakaʻi. Ua hala ka moho wiwo ke ala hoʻi ʻole mai. ʻO Vairea

Kahanulanialiʻi Peneku ka wahine nona ke aloha pau ʻole iā Kauaʻi o Manokalanipō a me ka poʻe aloha ʻāina a kūpaʻa i ka pono no ka lāhui. ʻO nā kūlana o nei wahine aloha, ʻo ia no he

kaikamahine ʻoe, he kaikuahine ʻoe, he hoahānau ʻoe, he hoaloha ʻoe, he hoahana ʻoe, he kumu ʻoe, a me he alakaʻi ʻoe.

Hoʻomaka akula ʻo ia i kāna hana me Ke Kula ʻo Kamehameha i mau makahiki i hala aku nei ma ke ʻano he kumu kāko ma ke kula kāmaliʻi ma Kaumakani. Ma hope maila, aʻo ʻo ia i nā polokalamu kū i ka Hawaiʻi ma nā kauwela a me nā wā hoʻomaha. Mau no kona noke ʻana i ka hoʻomau i nā mea Hawaiʻi. Kaʻana ʻia kona ʻike me nā hoahana i kō pono i ke kuleana. Lehulehu a manomano ka ʻikena a kēia wahine. No mākou ke kuleana e ola ai ka hoʻoilina o Kahanulanialiʻi.

Heavily weighed is Hanalei in the pouring rain; laden down by the mist of Alakaʻi. Our esteemed and courageous colleague has gone on the road from which there is no return. Vairea Kahanulanialiʻi Peneku had a passion and love for Kauaʻi o Manokalanipō and those

kūpuna. She often shared her ike with co-workers so that they could also champion these efforts to better serve the lāhui. Great and vast was her knowledge of our kūpuna. It is now up to us to carry on her name and legacy.

Thereisnoonetointerfere,forheisamessengerforthewindyday. Saidinadmirationofapersonwholetsnothingstophimfromcarryingoutthetaskentrustedtohim.

Aohe mea nana e hoopuhili, he moho no ka la makani.