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Six HIDOE educators receive nation’s highest award for science and mathematics teachers

Six Hawai‘i public school educators received the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, the nation’s highest award that a science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and/or computer science teacher may receive for outstanding teaching in the United States, President Joe Biden announced this week.

Maui Teacher Recognized in Washington DC

Yoshida has been teaching for 13 years and in 2013, helped to open Puʻu Kukui Elementary in Wailuku, where she is currently a curriculum coordinator.

Puʻu Kukui Elementary Teacher Earns Presidential Award

Maui math teacher, Eliza Akana Yoshida is one of four teachers in Hawaiʻi who were recognized today with the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching.