December 18, 2012, 9:00-11:00am, HE’E Special Meeting on 21st Century Schools and Middle School Attendance at The Learning Coalition: Please join us for two presentations by distinguished guest speakers. Meeting will be held at The Learning Coalition at 841 Bishop Street, Suite 301. Validated parking at Ali’i Place at 1099 Alakea Street.
From 9:00-10:00am, we will hear from the team at Hawaii Institute of Public Affairs (HIPA) on their 21st Century Schools Initiative. Last month, HE’E wrote a letter of support for HIPA, for their application for a Ford Foundation Grant for this initiative. (See letter of support at this link here) Members had questions about some of the detail of project so it is a great opportunity to ask questions and engage in conversation. From 10:00-11:00am, we will have a presentation from guest speakers Deborah Spencer Chun, President and CEO of Adult Friends for Youth, and David Hipp, Executive Director of Office of Youth Services, Department of Human Services, on their middle school absenteeism project. The two schools being targeted are Dole Middle and Waianae Intermediate Schools, which have absenteeism rates that are 2-3 times higher than the Oahu average. The project aims to determine the contributing factors to the absenteeism of middle school youths and then to evaluate strategies to alleviate those stressors.
Please send RSVP’s to all meetings to cheri@heecoalition.org as soon as possible. Conference call capability is also available for all meetings; if you would like to participate remotely please let us know.