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robotics, rocketry, French and more. Extended-day One of Waikiki School’s unique
tutoring and homework assistance provide help for
Title I, ELL, and SpEd populations. An after-school A+ strengths is its closely knit faculty.
program provides childcare for working parents. Adult A common language and climate
education partnerships provide classes in English
instruction for ELL parents. Community volunteers of respect facilitate daily articulation
provide extra love and support as ‘lunch pals’. Student between teachers.
council, peer mediation, grade-wide and school-wide
community service projects extend learning beyond
classroom walls. A Comprehensive Student Support
System (CSSS) provides an additional array of services.
A Primary School Adjustment Project (PSAP), a As the members of the learning community evolve as
contracted psychiatrist, a school-based behavioral health professionals and as individuals, they are eager to share
specialist, a school counselor, and counseling interns what they are learning. As we share, we also refine our
provide individualized intervention services as needs practices, continually creating new and effective ways
arise. to infuse Habits of Mind in every area of the curriculum.
The Waikiki School learning community believes, and is
One of Waikiki School’s unique strengths is its closely invested in the belief, that we become a microcosm of
knit faculty. A common language and climate of possibility, a small version of a big possibility. We are an
respect facilitate daily articulation between teachers. interdependent learning community in which all people
Professional development days are spent strengthening trust each other, learn together, and solve problems
a shared vision of education and practice. Waikiki peacefully. The Habits of Mind are utopian states to
School believes success in the classroom begins which we constantly aspire. Our tightly knit mindful
with the teacher, and research shows that teacher school thinks, interacts and grows intelligently together;
effectiveness is directly enhanced by meaningful comfortably poised on the cutting edge of educational
professional development. reform, and ready to take the next steps to continue
The school views collegial reflection and dialogue as the our evolution as pioneers of this very special and very
most valuable of vehicles for professional development. effective educational initiative.
The mindful school culture provides the context for
professional inquiry and the quest for continued growth Reference
provides the impetus for continued refinement and Costa, A., & Kallick, B. (2000). Habits of Mind: A
change. Cognitive coaching - visiting each other’s
classrooms to learn and to coach - provides a vehicle for developmental series, Alexandra, USA: Association for
self-motivated improvement. Professional conversation, Supervision and Curriculum Development
exploring refinement of practice, is part of ongoing daily
dialogue, often stimulated by the university professors
whose students frequent our campus.









































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