Episode 7: Redefining Success
from On Campus Hosted by Honolulu Civil Beat
Kamalani’s founding vision focused on using Hawaiian culture as a way of connecting a very diverse student body, and closing achievement gaps in the classroom. But Kamalani staff have struggled this year with integrating Hawaiian culture into their classrooms, and connecting with kids from very different backgrounds. In this episode of On Campus, reporter Emily Dugdale travels 4,000 miles east of Hawaii to Springdale, Arkansas — a town with a pretty unexpected group of Pacific Islander immigrants. Springdale is a much whiter community than Wahiawa. But it could have some lessons on cultural representation that even a diverse school like Kamalani could learn from.
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