Hi‘ilei provides educational home-visits where parents meet regularly with a Parents As Teachers certified educator to learn about early childhood development and gain the skills needed to be their child’s first and best teacher.
Ho‘āla conducts outreach that provides families with information on the importance of early childhood education and helps them navigate systems to secure early learning opportunities for their child.
Keiki Steps is a Hawaiian culture-based family-child interactive learning preschool where parents and children, from newborn to age 5, learn together to ensure academic success and prepare keiki for Kindergarten.
Empowering
Early
Learning
Ka Lama Education Academy supports community members in their pursuit to become high-quality teachers in their home communities through college support, mentorship and professional training.
Kaulele seeks to create informal STEM learning opportunities through indigenous Hawaiian knowledge that connects modern and traditional science to help young learners engage, connect to and succeed in STEM academics and occupations.
Kupu Ola collaborates with schools to create alternative learning approaches that focus on strengthening academic and personal confidence in youth through the integration of Native Hawaiian culture in outdoor classrooms and interactive learning activities.
Empowering
Educational
Equity
Ho‘oulu Waiwai works with families to strengthen financial well-being though partnerships, pathways and learning experiences that nurture personal financial wellness and entrepreneurial development.
Empowering
Economic
Stability
Empowering
Educational Equity
Kupu Ola collaborates with schools to create alternative learning approaches that focus on strengthening academic and personal confidence in youth through the integration of Native Hawaiian culture in outdoor classrooms and interactive learning activities.
148
families increased
their knowledge
of diverse Hawaiian
traditions and
practices.
Kupu Ola, which means “to bring forth or sprout life,” is a culture-based education (CBE) and outdoor classroom program that brings project-based cultural programming into schools. Our outdoor classrooms focus on helping at-risk youth, families, educators, and the community to nurture identity through hands-on learning, Hawaiian language, and cultural practices.
Cultural-based instruction has the potential for narrowing educational achievement gaps because it allows keiki to build relationships and engage in learning tied to a deeper sense of community. Because of that, Kupu Ola is not only an educational empowerment program, but a community development program as well. The Kupu Ola program strives to:
Kupu Ola works to build and reinforce Native Hawaiian culture, language, and traditions while reestablishing land connections through outdoor instruction. This approach allows kinesthetic learners to thrive and can be used to teach math, science, literacy, art, and social and emotional skills.
226
seventh and eight-graders participated in culture-based educational workshops (72% were Native Hawaiian).
100%
of the students demonstrated cultural competency through oral presentations and or demonstrations.
88%
of the seventh and eighth-graders who participated showed improvement in at least one risk / protective factor.
INPEACE is a nonprofit organization that relies heavily on grants to fund programs and services that strengthen, support, educate and empower our communities. Through donations, we are able to keep our programs free while providing an incredible asset to our community.
INPEACE, the Institute for Native Pacific Education and Culture, is a non-profit 501(c)3.
Your gift is tax deductible as provided by law.
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