KUKUI

THEORY OF ACTIONIf we collaborate effectively, we will create an environment that will inspire students and adults to learn and to grow as individuals and as a team.

PRIORITIES✓1) Team Goal: To continue to improve team communication and collaboration, and to honor Pauahi’s legacy, core kukui teachers will refine the unit called GOOD AND INDUSTRIOUS (incorporating WEO, Pauahi’s will, and lama policies) to include a parent component.2) EfS: Ownership of sustainabilizing units will increase as core teacher participation in EfS will be expanded.✓3) Leadership: Core teachers will continue to improve in our shared leadership competency.

Kukui

ElectivesTheory of Action:

If we are all engaged with a common goal and understanding of the intended outcome, then we are focused on purposeful planning and shared responsibility.

Priorities:

Help each other build professional capacity to work efficiently and purposefully, as a team and as an individual, while continuing to mālama our personal health and well-being.

Continue to explore opportunities to bridge the “gap” between relevant KES and KHS programs.

Team Goal: Electives team will purposefully collaborate on refining the KMS Elective program for SY15-16. This includes identifying and articulating the essential content pieces and exit outcomes for the 7th and 8th grade courses in alignment with K-12 programs.

Pu’ulu Olopua

• Team Theory: To create a community of twenty-first century learners who integrate their individual identities, intellect, and intuition in order to contribute to their sense of place and the world around them. By creating a positive and effective culture of learning, students will feel empowered, accepted, and safe.

• Our Top Three Priorities:

• 1) Grouping - We will regroup students every quarter so they get to meet and collaborate with other students on Olopua. 

• 2) Shared leadership - Each Olopua kumu will take the lead on? various team activities and field trips.

• 3)Communication - We will communicate openly and honestly.

LC/Technology

• Theory of Action: If we actively seek opportunities to collaborate with Core and Encore teachers then we will enhance teaching and learning at KMS.

• Priority Areas:

• Acclimate new member into team

• Explore ways to leverage our services

• Modify LC to diversify teaching and learning spaces

• Team Goal: Display student work from collaborative lessons/projects.

COUNSELINGTheory of Action:

If we define and develop the different counselor roles, then we will have a more cohesive and comprehensive counseling

services for learners in our school.

Priorities:1. Role definition and team building2. a safe environment3. Character Education

KMS- Physical Education

Theory of Action  If  we, the KMS Physical Education Team, has a sustained focus of our mission and vision, through effective communication, shared goals, and an equity of roles and responsibilities, we will be successful at educating and promoting the health and well-being of our middle school haumana.

3 Top Team Priorities3 Top Team Priorities

--Ensure all middle school students are proficient in swim skill and endurance.

-Use of Fitnessgramm testing and data to help drive the direction of our curriculum.-Use of Fitnessgramm testing and data to help drive the direction of our curriculum.

-To determine an approach to scaffold the cognitive aspects of the PE fitness curriculum.-To determine an approach to scaffold the cognitive aspects of the PE fitness curriculum.

Theory of Action Statement for Pu’ulu Koa

If we implement the EFS standards in our CBL/IDU projects, then students will be inspired to think about the world, their relationship to it, and their ability to influence it in a new way

Top 3 Priorities

-Continue to develop and integrate a sustainability thread in our Grade 7 quarter themes of learning.

Develop and integrate a Hokule’a thread in our Grade 7 quarter themes of learning.

-Implement an accountability system for students success.

Pū‘ulu OlonāTheory of Action:

If we provide students a greater voice, then more effective learning will occur.   

3 Priorities:1. Facilitate that our students will become “good

and industrious”.2.  Further develop the studentʻs individual

“voice”.3.  Establish a safe positive learning

environment for our Pū‘ulu Olonā student.

Pū‘ulu OlonāTheory of Action:

If we provide students a greater voice, then more effective learning will occur.   

3 Priorities:1. Facilitate that our students will become “good

and industrious”.2.  Further develop the studentʻs individual

“voice”.3.  Establish a safe positive learning

environment for our Pū‘ulu Olonā student.

Theory of ActionIf we communicate effectively, honestly, and respectfully we will then

create a safe, nurturing, and flourishing environment for our team.

Priorities1.Effective, honest, and respectful

communication.2.Building a culture of mutual and professional

respect.3.No one gets left behind.

Pū’ulu Lehua

Pū’ulu LamaTheory of Action: If we consistently nurture our community, we will create a positive learning environment which will empower our students to become self-directed learners

Team Priorities • Culture of learning: Support the individual’s physical, emotional, social, and cognitive needs • Instructional Rounds • Students prepared for high school

EXPLORATORYTheory of Action:

If we use a variety of formative assessments, student learning will be kept on track.

-One or more formative assessments per lesson

-Teachers debrief at weekly meetings about FA used

-Get student feedback on FA at end of trimesters