#Maui teacher

More than a dozen Maui teachers flew to Oʻahu on Thursday to ask for more support following devastating wildfires last August. Designated as a hard-to-staff location for years, West Maui is experiencing a critical teacher shortage as many educators are still piecing together their lives, or were forced to leave the area entirely, according to the Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association. Educators on Maui are asking for increased shortage differentials for West Maui teachers, the creation of a fire relief leave bank, and more robust mental health support for all who were impacted, including displaced students. 

Subaru Hawaiʻi has launched its Tools for Schools program, committing $25,000 to support project requests from teachers across the state.

Julia Golding, a teacher and performing arts director at St. Anthony School in Wailuku, was honored as the Hawaiʻi Catholic Schools Teacher of the Year.

A free course will be offered for Maui educators on climate change and coastal resilience in Kīhei on June 23, 2023.

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Instead of a 10 percent cut to the Department of Education budget, Gov. Ige said target reductions for the DOE have been reset to 2.5 percent.

Thousands of Hawaiʻi teachers and their supporters will march to the Hawaiʻi State Capitol in support of the HSTA’s efforts to secure a new contract.

Duke’s Beach House recently recognized Trisha Calhoun, Graham Seiki and Keola Rogat of Princess Nahi‘ena‘ena Elementary School as “Educators of the Month.”

Thomas Hussey, associate professor of automotive technology at UHMC, was one of 17 teachers and researchers honored with a Regents’ Medal for Excellence.

A former teacher and head football coach at Maui High School, David Bui, pleaded no contest today to five counts of indecent electronic display to a child.

Jeenna Canche from Maui High School was given the inaugural Lynn Sandstedt Memorial Spanish Scholarship, which sponsors a study abroad trip for Spanish.

Maui Friends of the Library will hold a used book sale at the MFOL Warehouse next to the Pu‘unēnē Bookstore on Saturday, April 9, from 8 a.m. to noon.

The Hui No‘eau Visual Arts Center will host a Teacher’s Professional Development Workshop with Visiting Artist Yvonne Manipon on Thursday, July 9, from 9 a.m. to noon.

On Maui, a ceremony honoring teachers who have earned and renewed their national board for professional teaching standards certifications will be held on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015, at 4:30 p.m. at Kamehameha Schools Maui in Pukalani in Keōpūolani Hale.

The list of Maui teachers includes: Julia DeGeorge, Molokaʻi High School; George Helfenstine, ʻĪao Intermediate School; Abby Markulis, King Kamehameha III Elementary School; Jessica Mathias, Kamaliʻi Elementary School; Nathanial Mickelson, Maui High School; Bryan Molina, Lokelani Intermediate School; Amanda Shim, Kula Elementary School; and Muriel Warne, Pukalani Elementary School.

In four decades of teaching history at Maui’s college, Bert Kikuchi has had thousands of students, and many remember him fondly.

A Maui teacher is free on bail this morning after her arrest on drug charges on Tuesday, February 2, 2010. 47-year-old Cheryl Bisera was charged with various drug related offenses including 3rd degree promotion of a dangerous drug, possession of drug paraphernalia and promotion of a controlled substance near a school. Maui police executed a […]