Education Cheat Sheet: Navigating Private School Admission During a Pandemic
If you’re looking at private schools for the first time, here are a few resources to get you started.
Hawai‘i Association of Independent Schools
Education Cheat Sheet: New Roles for Parents and Children in New Forms of Learning
Whether it’s online or distance learning or homeschooling, the way you and your child tackle these new challenges will make a big difference.
Education Cheat Sheet: Help Kids Learn and Play This Summer
Many families are heading into the fourth month of learning at home. Here are games, kits, a new way to read and other simple ideas to keep your child's mind stimulated.
Education Cheat Sheet: How to Teach Your Child Empathy During the Coronavirus Pandemic
Modeling behavior, asking the right questions and sharing stories can help keiki discover how to care for others.
Education Cheat Sheet: How to Win at Homework
If homework becomes a battle, how can you help while keeping your child an independent learner?
Education Cheat Sheet: Matching Family and School Values
Education is about more than academics. So how can you make sure a school matches your family values?
Education Cheat Sheet: Advice for Parents of the Quirky Kid
Every child is unique. But when should you let offbeat habits thrive and when should you rein it in.
Your Weekend: The Best Family Events-Sept. 19, 2019
Photo: Courtesy of Pearl Harbor Aviation MuseumPacific Aviation Museum is one of five venues offering free admission this Saturday. Aspiring pilots here keep it casual in their flight suits and slippers. Hawaiʻi Open Professional beach volleyball players will be in Waikīkī…
Education Cheat Sheet: The Power of Play
Don’t put off playtime! Here is why we should all take it seriously for our kids.
Education Cheat Sheet: Getting Ready for Kindergarten
Preparing for school goes beyond the ABCs and 123s. Here are six things you can do at home to get your little one ready to enter the classroom.
Education Cheat Sheet: Why You Should Still Read To Your Child Through Middle School
Your keiki may be able to finish a book by his or herself, but there are seven other benefits you won't want to miss out on when it comes to reading together.
Education Cheat Sheet: Is it OK to Miss School to Travel?
To miss classes for travel or not, that is the question.
Education Cheat Sheet: Boardroom to Classroom
Local kids are learning from local businesses with exciting partnerships and projects.
Education Cheat Sheet: 7 Terms to Know Now (and One to Tuck Away for the Future)
Photo: Courtesy of Holy Nativity School Editor's Note: There is no question that the way kids learn today is vastly different than the by-the-book lessons of my school days. But today, the world of education changes more quickly than decade-to-decade.…
Education Cheat Sheet: How to Identify a Positive School Culture
Photo: Getty Images Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, “We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.” While discourse over Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, mastery of the Periodic Table, and engagement in…
Inside Look: HAIS Education Fair 2018
Photo: Courtesy of HAIS Representatives from nearly 40 schools on O‘ahu will be at the HAIS Education Fair this weekend to help local families with private-school testing, admissions and financing. The free fair, hosted by the Hawai‘i Association of Independent…
Education Cheat Sheet: 3 Ways to Encourage Exceptional
Photo: Getty Images Editor's Note: It's a question the parents in the office often discuss over lunch, after meetings or anytime we have a moment. How can we make sure our kids grow up confident, capable and happy? Sometimes it is…
Education Cheat Sheet: To Screen or Not to Screen
Photo: Courtesy of Trinity Christian SchoolTrinity Christian School students during in 2018 Senior Soak Day, a tradition that is best practiced without a smartphone. We certainly all know that our children can live without 24/7 access to the internet—that had…
Education Cheat Sheet: Our Top Five
Photo: Thinkstock When we started our partnership with the Hawai‘i Association of Independent Schools in January 2017, we wanted to give parents insight into the trends and ideas that are changing the way our children learn. I’ve been fortunate enough to…
Education Cheat Sheet: Helping Your Child with Math
Photo: Courtesy of Island Pacific Academy Editor’s Note: The thing I had feared since Cassera started elementary school happened in second grade. She asked me to check her math homework and as I stared at what appeared to be a…
Education Cheat Sheet: Parenting Help in Minutes
Photo: Thinkstock How much screen time should my child be getting? How do I help my child with homework? How can I help my children be ‘well-rounded’ without over-scheduling them or stressing them out? Busy parents want the answers to…
Education Cheat Sheet: Examining Technology and Learning
Photo: Thinkstock As parents, we’re all concerned about screen time. When your child’s daily homework shifts from pencil and paper to a computer and iPad, is it a good thing? Island Pacific Academy faculty and staff examine the issue. In…
Education Cheat Sheet: Service Learning
Photo: Tien EngaFamilies helped clear a lo‘i at Ka Papa Lo‘i O Kanewai in Mānoa as part of the 2017 HONOLULU Family Volunteer Day. What is service learning? Punahou School's Dan Kinzer gives us a deeper look. In short, we'll…
Education Cheat Sheet: Passion-Based Learning
Photo: Courtesy of Asia Pacific International School Editor’s Note: In the third grade, my friends wanted to be firefighters, police officer, chefs and teachers. I wanted to be in advertising. I have the career day folder to prove it. I…