The Outdoor Education Department has provided unique, age-appropriate, outdoor experiences for Punahou students for more than 50 years.
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Today at Punahou
As part of a pilot underway at Punahou, grades are all but gone in a handful of Academy classrooms, replaced by a mastery-based model of assessment, in which students get robust, frequent feedback of their progress based on skill sets.
Stellar SATs and a high GPA have long been considered the holy grail to get into the nation’s most elite universities, but an increasing number of colleges have been focusing more on skill sets and unique contributions than on a student’s ability to take tests.
Academy faculty Terry Yamamoto-Edwards shares insights from her year-long sabbatical living with her son in Spain.
One of the Aims of a Punahou Education is to provide students with rich opportunities and experiences for exploration, growth and mastery.
In the robotics classroom at the Hawaii School for the Deaf and Blind (HSDB), a table was covered with wires, gears and robot pieces.
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The Outdoor Education Department has provided unique, age-appropriate, outdoor experiences for Punahou students for more than 50 years.
Alumni Stories
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Award-winning kumu hula Māpuana de Silva holds true to the traditional vision and values she learned from her teachers.
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As co-founder of Hui Ku Maoli Ola and Papahana Kuaola, Matt Kapalikū Schirman ’92 is at the center of a movement to restore native plant species and ahupua‘a management practices.
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With her own radio show on KTUH and as a scholar at the University of Hawai‘i, Paige Okamura ’09 is part of the new wave of Hawaiian language revival.
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