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Nave Hawaiian Educaon Council

Annual Report

PR/Award # S362B110001

September 2011August 2012

Nave Hawaiian Educaon Council

735 Bishop Street, Suite 200 Honolulu, Hawaii 967813 Phone: 808-523-6432 Fax: 808-523-6464


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NNUUUUKKIIAAVVIISSIIOONN

I lhui naauao Hawaii pono,I lhui Hawaii pono naauao.

There will be a culturally enlightened Hawaiian nation,

There will be a Hawaiian nation enlightened.

AALLAANNUUUUKKIIAAMMIISSSSIIOONNMa ka uhane aloha o ke Akua e koi ia ka Aha Hoonaauaoiwi Hawaii e hoolaukai, e ana loiloi, e hike manao a e

hoomau i ka ike pookela o ka hoonaauao iwi Hawaii.

In the spirit of Aloha Ke Akua, the Native Hawaiian

Education Council will, coordinate, assess and make

recommendations to perpetuate excellence in Native

Hawaiian education.

GGUUIIDDIINNGGPPRRIINNCCIIPPLLEESSE aloha Akua, aloha ina

Aloha ohana, aloha lelo,Aloha kanaka i naauao kkouMa ka paepae ike moomeheu Hawaii.

Our enlightenment will come.

Grounded in our cultural wisdom,

Through our spirituality, love of homeland, family, language

and community.

GGOOAALLSSTo enable Native Hawaiians to reach the Native Hawaiian Education and

National Education Goals, the Native Hawaiian Education Council shall:

Coordinate resources; Assess educational needs, practices and models;

Provide recommendations for the improvement of education for

Native Hawaiians and

Achieve and demonstrate organizational excellence.


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Who we are.

The Nave Hawaiian Educaon Council (NHEC) as formed by the Nave

Hawaiian Educaon Act (NHEA) is tasked to:

Coordinate the educaonal services and programs available to Nave

Hawaiians, including the programs funded through the NHEA;

Assess the extent to which such services and programs meet the needs of

Nave Hawaiians, and collect data on the status of Nave Hawaiian educa-

on;

Provide direcon and guidance, through the issuance of reports and recom-

mendaons, to appropriate Federal, State, and local agencies in order to

focus and improve the use of resources, including resources made available

under this part, relang to Nave Hawaiian educaon, and serve, where

appropriate, in an advisory capacity; and

Make direct grants, if such grants enable the Educaon Council to carry out

the dues of said Council;

Provide administrave support and nancial assistance to the established

Nave Hawaiian Educaon Island councils (Island Councils hereaer),

supporng the disnct needs of each island community through programs

funded by the NHEA and addressing idened priories and authorized

acvies.

Our 2011-2012 achievements.

Coordinate educaonal eorts

Technical assistance to Island Councils. During the 20102011 scal year, NHEC

completed and submied to the U.S. Department of Educaon (USDOE) a com-

prehensive, detailed statewide assessment report on the educaonal needs of

Nave Hawaiians. NHEC began planning workshops for the Island Councils on

how to present the needs assessment results to their respecve communies.

Island Council meengs. Representaves of each Island Council aend each

NHEC meeng to discuss their achievements, needs, and challenges.


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NHEA grantee briengs. In August, NHEC gathered grantees for a brieng with

Hawaii Congressional sta members. Grantees were strongly encouraged to

cooperate with NHEC by providing data for their projects. In turn, grantees

communicated their concerns, such as a desire for increased nocaon of

grant opportunies and training; cultural based performance indicators;

networking and capacity building; informaon on resources, parcularly those

products produced by NHEP; collaboraon; technical assistance; and online

access to curriculum models.

Our 2011-2012 achievementscontinued

Coordinate educaonal eorts

Educaonal panels and presentaons. NHEC coordinated a panel presentaon

at the Council on Nave Hawaiian Advancement (CNHA) Conference on the cur-

rent acvies of Hawaii DOE Race to the Top (RTTT) eorts in the HIDOE. The

panel also discussed the new charter school law that went into eect in July

2012. In addion, NHEC presented informaon on NHEA and the council at the

Nave Hawaiian Educaon Associaon Conference and at the Na Pua Noeau

Family Day on the island of Hawaii.

Nave Indian Educaon Associaon (NIEA) Legislave Summit. NHEC parcipat-

ed in the summit to inform other Nave groups about Nave Hawaiian issues

and establish networks for future collaboraons.

Assess and collect data on the status of Nave Hawaiian educaon

Nave Hawaiian organizaons program outcomes report data collecon process.

Senator Inouye requested an outcomes report for allNave Hawaiian organiza-

ons receiving federal grants through his advocacy eorts. The Oce of Hawaiian

Aairs (OHA) was tasked with compiling the report for the various organizaons.

A data collecon matrix with specic variables was sent to the dierent Nave Ha-waiian organizaons idened by the Senators oce. NHEC collected data from

NHEA grantees and completed the matrix. NHEC worked with OHA to validate,

clean, and update the database created from the matrices. During this process,

NHEC idened gaps (e.g., lack of consistent denions of outcomes; need for a

database or reporng mechanism to collect this type of informaon annually) and

potenal processes to address such gaps in the future.


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Our 2011-2012 achievementscontinued

Provide guidance through reports and recommendaons

Nave Hawaiian Educaon Programs report. Senator Inouye requested an out-comes report for NHEA grantees. NHEC took the lead in coordinang grantee

eorts to respond to the data request. NHEC coordinated data collecon, re-

viewed and analyzed the data, and wrote the nal report (See Appendix A).

Serve in an advisory capacity

Nave Hawaiian Educaonal Outcomes Council. As part of the Race to

the Top iniave, the NHEOC was formed to bring together organizaons that

would partner with the DOE in addressing the educaonal gap between NaveHawaiian students and non-Nave Hawaiian students. NHEC acts in an advisory

capacity to this council and provides informaon and recommendaons.


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Operational activities

New leadership

Execuve Director posion. The Execuve Director posion

was vacated in May 2012. A subsequent search resulted in

the posion being oered to and accepted by Wendy Roylo

Hee. A graduate of Kamehameha, Wesleyan University in

Conneccut and Harvard University in Massachuses,

Wendy has worked for over 30 years in planning and ad-

ministraon at various health, educaon, and nave

Hawaiian organizaons. She has experience in grant-

wring, lobbying and fund-raising, and has served as a

member of county and state commissions and advisory

boards ranging from health, land use, culture and womens

issues.

Fiscal

Each month the execuve commiee is provided a scal report summary, recon-

ciliaon summary, and spreadsheet of the year to date budget expenditures to

review and discuss. The reports are then forwarded to the general council and

voted upon.

The scal report summary includes the drawdown funds available to the NHEC

bank account, the balance of funds not drawn down from the USDOE, and the

true balance of funds. The reconciliaon summary includes an accounng of the

cleared, uncleared, and new transacons, acve awards drawn from the USDOE,

and the total NHEC funds. Refer to Appendix B for the nal scal report.

Revision to by-laws

NHECs by-laws that pertain to the Treasurers dues were updated to include

periodic review of internal controls, reasonableness of transacons and business

to ensure accounts are available for inspecon by council members.


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Operational activities

Conict of interest

NHEC has adopted its Conict of Interest policy that requires council members to

disclose potenal conicts and requires members to withdraw from decisions

that present a potenal conict. Conict of Interest statements are signed and

led annually.

Communicaon and disseminaon of informaon

The NHEC website hp://www.nhec.org/ is updated annually to include the new

grant awardees and project abstracts. In addion, NHEC has a large database of

past and current grantees and is able to disseminate informaon using the

contact informaon from the database. Internal communicaon for council

acvies is disseminated via electronic mail. NHEC sta also traveled to neighbor

islands to share informaon on the NHEC Needs Assessment Report.

To ensure the acvies and decisions made by the NHEC Execuve Commiee

are transparent, the Execuve Commiee meeng minutes can be found in Ap-

pendix C.


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Appendix A: Outcomes report


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