This institutional support for faculty offers opportunity and funding for seminars, learning fellowships and sabbaticals. The Institute, in managing these resources, promotes instructional inquiry and faculty leadership, encourages sharing of emerging and ongoing areas of faculty investigation, and advances shared professional learning and growth.

The Institute also provides a variety of in-service opportunities for faculty. Invited consultants keep faculty abreast of current educaitonal thinking and changing student needs. Such guests have included Rob Evans, Michael Thompson, Andrew Gardner, Tony Wagner and Rosalind Wiseman.

Faculty share the learning from each professional development opportunity through discussion, reports and/or presentations.

Learning Fellowships
Teachers apply individually or in groups with specific proposals to address a topic of relevance with a Learning Fellowship. Such fellowships are supported with funding or scheduling as appropriate.

Grants
Faculty may apply for grants to fund specific proposals. These grants have supported summer projects and research. Current focus is on Innovation Grants specifically geared to further faculty instructional inquiry and leadership.

Sabbaticals
Teachers may apply for semester or full-year sabbaticals with proposals that significantly advance the quality of curricular and instructional opportunities for Punahou students. 

Independently and in partnership with others, the Institute will host or sponsor a variety of learning opportunities for local, national and global educators. Such programs may include speakers, workshops, classroom observations, and investigations with other teachers.

Brain Symposium @ Punahou
This two-day symposium is held in mid-June, featuring a keynote speaker and a series of workshops on a theme devoted to brain-based education. More about the Brain Symposium

Lab School @ Punahou
The Lab School invites educators to participate in a one-week experience working with other teachers in a cohort group exploring a particular topic. The week includes classroom observations and collaborative discussions while cohort members each develop a plan or strategy to implement in the classroom. The goal is to test and explore methods and ideas while providing an arena for self-challenge. More about Lab School

Wo International Center Teacher Programs
Wo International Center organizes programs to explore the curricular opportunities related to global education. Summer 2013 offerings include a Lab School cohort and Flat Classroom Live!

Additionally, it has led Teacher Institutes since 2002. These sessions build cross-cultural understanding and a collaborative network for teachers, whether designed for teachers from selected international school systems or offering international gatherings of American and foreign teachers.

Service Learning Teacher Institute
SLTI is presented by Luke Center for Public Service for educators from public and private schools. The program aims to help teachers develop curricula related to service leaning.

Prior year themes have addressed ways to bring healthy and locally grown foods into the classroom and “Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Classroom.”  The 2011 institute, held on February 10, was a collaboration with Kokua Hawaii Foundation and Sustainable UH, with the theme, “Waste Not, Watt Not.”

The Institute will highlight a variety of student programs which demonstrate innovative approaches to teaching and learning, that my be useful or interesting to other educators. These programs may be particularly linked to initiatives at Punahou School and may foster partnerships between schools.

Entrepreneurs in Residence
The EIR program seeks to pair student entrepreneurs and faculty with a select group of volunteer mentors from Hawai'i's business and nonprofit world.

PUEO Program
The Clarence T. C. Ching Partners in Unlimited Educational Opportunities at Punahou School was created to identify students in neighboring public schools with high academic potential, but with low economic opportunity - and to raise their aspirations and their preparation to enter and complete college.

Student Global Leadership Institute
The purpose of the Institute is to develop a community of international youth leaders who understand and are engaged in shared global challenges and who galvanize positive social change. The Institute explores leadership development characterized by creativity, a capacity for problem-solving, collaboration, communication and multicultural perspectives.

The Institute will establish a forum for sharing faculty learning, both within the Punahou community and beyond to promote ongoing adult learning and growth. It will also support individual and school partnerships to further educational investigations.

Using video, and other media as relevant, teachers can document classroom practice, student learning or emerging ideas to share with others. The intent is to develop a format which allows for feedback and collaboration. Several examples of such video sharing are in the playlist below.

Partnerships
The Institute seeks to further the connections with other schools, both public and independent to create and sustain communities of discourse about teaching and learning.

Private Schools with a Public Purpose
Established in 2005, this national coalition of schools focuses on creating educational partnerships to support greater access to education.