Project Huli Honua

FAIN: AH-274748-20

Papahana Kuaola (Kaneohe, HI 96744-9176)
Mahealani Merryman (Project Director: May 2020 to July 2023)

Retention of eight staff positions to develop an online curriculum, teacher training, and a family engagement program based on Native Hawaiian storytelling, oral history, and geography.

Project Huli Honua will address the needs of students, parents, and teachers as we navigate through a new normal. Online Hawaiian cultural, historical, and place- based units will be developed focusing on the geology of Hawai‘i in order to perpetuate traditional Hawaiian knowledge and methodologies through various digital platforms. This project supports formal classroom teachers with a comprehensive standards-based curriculum as an online resource that is easily accessible to students through Google Classrooms and various distance learning alternatives.