Jerusha Magalei

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Special Education, Inclusion, and Disability Studies
  
  • Early childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education settings
    Transition/Post High School
  • Theory and practices in educating students with diagnosed exceptionalities
• Caregiver Perspective and Educational Expectations
  
  • Family engagement, involvement, and decision-making
  • Stress, coping, and resilience
• Multicultural Perspectives and Educational Expectations
• Multicultural/Multiethnic Education: Theory, Research, and Practice (emphasis on indigenous educational methodologies of Kanaka Māoli in Hawaiʻi and Māori of Aotearoa of New Zealand)
• Performing Arts
  
  • Māori culture, teaching, choreography, composition, performance, and analysis of waiata and kapa haka as avenues for education
  • Hawaiʻian culture, teaching, choreography, composition, performance, and analysis of oli, mele, and hula as avenues for education
• Spirituality and Education
• Oral History
• Curriculum and Instruction

TEACHING

• Students explore principles for developing personal leadership and how to apply them by helping others develop personal leadership. Students will develop critical thiking skills and effective leadership to help create a more effective leadership to help create a more effective school culture.
• Spring 2024

SCED 491 Observation and Practicum

• Prepare secondary school majors seeking a Hawaiʻi teacher license for student teaching internships in Hawaiʻi. Students are supervised during their field experience within a secondary school on ʻOahu. In addition, seminars are held weekly.
• Fall 2022, Fall 2024

SCED 492 Student Teaching

• Supervised teaching in secondary schools. In addition, seminars are held weekly
• Fall 2021, Winter 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2023, Winter 2023, Winter 2024

SPED 300 Education of Exceptional Students

• Overview of special education history and development, exceptionalities and their causes, identification, characteristics, and interventions.
• Fall 2021, Winter 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Winter 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2023

SPED 300 Education of Students with Exceptionalities (course name changed – Fall 2023)

• Overview of special education history and development, exceptionalities and their causes, identification characteristics, and interventions
• Fall 2023, Winter 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2024

SPED 309 Theory and Practice for Students with Disabilities

• Organization of collaborative education programs, diagnosis, curriculum development, and teaching methods for students with mild/moderate disabilities
• Fall 2022, Winter 2023, Pall 2023, Fall 2024

EDUCATION

NZQA BA classes – Māori Performing Arts – Awanuiārangi
MPA 100 – Te Reo a Toi
MPA 101 – Research and Performing Arts
MPA 102 – The study of Waiata (Songs and Chants)
MPA 103 – Te Marae me Ona Tikanga
MPA 105 – Composition Critique
MPA 106 – Toi Pukenga: Practicum
MPA107 – He Toi Pukenga: Performance
MAO 104 – Te Tipurangi I: Elementary Māori Language
Taken Sep 2014 – 2017

NZQA Māori Performing Arts – University of Aukcland
Certificate of Completion
Received August 2009

University of Phoenix, School of Education
M.A. Education (emphasis in Special Education)
Received May 2008

Brigham Young University–Hawaii (BYUH), Social Sciences
B.A. Pacific Island Studies
Received August 1998

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

Brigham Young University–Hawaii, Teacher Education (Lāʻie, HI)
Assistant Professor
September 2021 – present

Hālau o ʻAulani (Arlington, VA)
Special Instructor: Māori language, culture, and performing arts
August 2017 – present

Kahuku High and Intermediate School (Kahuku, HI)
Special Education Coordinator (SpEd Office) & Distance Learning Lab Coordinator
August 2020-August 2021

Kahuku High and Intermediate School (Kahuku, HI)
Special Education Department Head (SpEd Office)
August 2019 – July 2020

Kahuku High and Intermediate School (Kahuku, HI)
Special Education Coordinator (SpEd Office)
August 2018 – July 2019

Kahuku High and Intermediate School (Kahuku, HI)
Special Education Teacher – FSC (Fully Self-Contained Class)
July 2010 – July 2018

Brigham Young University–Hawaii (Lāʻie, HI)
Iosepa Sail Coordinator
March 2016 – July 2016

University of Hawaiʻi – Mānoa (Honolulu, HI)
Co-teacher for EDCS 601 Advanced Topics in Reading (Masters level students)
September 2014 – December 2014

University of Hawaiʻi – Mānoa (Honolulu, HI)
Co-teacher for EDCS 600 Language, Learning and Teaching Masters level students)
January 2014 – July 2014

Wahiawa Elementary School (Wahiawa, HI)
Special Education Teacher – Resource
July 2008 – July

Hauʻula Elementary School (Hauʻula, HI)
Part-time Teacher/Educational Assistant (Grades K, 1, 3, 4, 5, and 6)
March 2008 – May 2008

Enchanted Lake Elementary School (Kailua, HI)
Special Education Preschool Teacher (Inclusive setting with Head Start Program)
August 2007 – January 2008

Nā Kamalei K.E.E.P. (Koʻolauloa Early Education Program) (Punaluʻu, HI)
Hoʻala Nā Pua Program Teacher (Punaluʻu, Hauʻula, Lāʻie, and Kahuku sites)
June 2003 – August 2007

Hauʻula Elementary School (Hauʻula, HI)
Part-time Teacher
January 2007 – May 2007

Koʻolauloa Childrenʻs Community Council (Kahuku, HI)
Clerical Aide
2005 – 2006 

Polynesian Cultural Center (Lāʻie, HI)
Performer/Cast member (night shows, canoe pageants, luaus, promotional team, special events) and secretary for the theater department
June 1989 – January 1999

SCHOLARSHIP

Published Work

• Dissertation: Ola Nā Iwi Oʻu I Kuʻu Wahi Keiki: A Story of Personal Evolution Through Caring for a Child with Multiple Disabilities.
  Reference: Magalei, J. N. P. W. (2022). Ola Nā Iwi Oʻu I Kuʻu Wahi Keiki: A Story of Personal Evolution Through Caring for a Child with Multiple Disabilities (Doctoral dissertation, University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa).
• CD – Video/Interview as part of my dissertation
  Reference: Magalei, J. N. P. W. (2022). Kihe ka Ihu I Ka ʻAle: Braving Uncharted Waters. Video submitted as part of my dissertation, Ola Nā Iwi Oʻu I Kuʻu Wahi Keiki: A Story of Personal Evolution Through Caring for a Child with Multiple Disabilities.
  

Publications in Organizational News Papers

Date: October 2006.
Title of Article: O Ka Makua ke Koʻo o ka Hale e Paʻa Ai.
Organization: Nā Kamalei K.E.E.P.
Newspaper and Issue: Nā Kamalei K.E.E.P.: ʻApo i ka Lama Kū. Vol. 10. No. 4. Pg. 6
Description: Article emphasizing the essential role of parents in the home. Kanaka Māoli perspective.

Date: April 2005.
Title of Article: Our Environment: A Teaching Tool.
Organization: Nā Kamalei K.E.E.P.
Newspaper and Issue: Nā Kamalei K.E.E.P.: ʻApo i ka Lama Kū. Vol. 9. No. 2. Pg. 6.
Description: Article highlighting the environment as a source of learning, a teaching tool for all highlighting the benefits of experiential learning and sustainability.

Publications Preparing to Submit to Journals

Title: Seeking Truth. Lessons Learned by Analyzing Three Kaupapa Māori Principles: Whānau, Kaupapa, Āta.
Description: Analyzes three kaupapa Māori principles of whānau, kaupapa, and āta, and their importance in acquiring knowledge and what it reveals in the quest for truth about oneself.

Title: Storytelling, Remembering, Envisioning, Networking, and Sharing: Five Indigenous Research Projects of Importance in Personal Evolution and Learning-Finding My Truth.
Description: Analyzes five of Linda Tuhiwai Smith’s Indigenous research projects of importance. Examples of how these five elements influenced my evolution and learning will be analyzed from my dissertation.

Title: Writing and Creating as Therapy Space
Description: This article discusses how engaging in writing and creating can provide a therapy space to process the challenges for caregivers as they are struggling to provide care for their children who are neurodiverse.

Title: He Tino Taonga: A Cherished Treasure.
Description: An analysis of a karakia (prayer) of a Māori grandmother and composer in the form of a letter (later transformed to a chant) written for her grandson who suffered a stroke at a young age. We learn about the close relationship between the grandmother and her grandson, what she wishes for him, and her unique perspective of his value and worth. This is the beginning of a study and projects on compositions of Nihipora Tatiana Kereama Wallace, a Māori composer and choreographer.

Publications and Projects in Progress

Title: Māori Compositions as Vehicles to Disseminate Knowledge and Perpetuate Culture. (Title may change).
Description: This article argues that Māori compositions of haka and waiata are relevant and important ways of disseminating knowledge and that these traditional avenues of passing on information continue to be important today to Māori.

Title: Hawaiʻian Compositions as Vehicles to Disseminate Knowledge and Perpetuate Culture. (Title may change).
Description: This article argues that Hawaiʻian compositions of oli, mele, and hula are relevant and important ways of disseminating knowledge and that these traditional avenues of passing on information continue to be important today to Kanaka Māoli.

Title: Ngā Waiata, Ngā Taonga: Lessons from a Grandmother Through Song and Dance.
Description: This book project includes songs written by Nihipora Tatiana Kereama Wallace. These songs were composed, and dances were choreographed for a dual purpose: 1) for performances at the Polynesian Cultural Center (in the Theater Department – canoe shows, night shows, promotional team; and the Māori village) and 2) to teach and reveal to her posterity lessons about significant people, events, principles, and pass on perspectives of her Māori culture and ancestors.

Title: Ngā Wāiata, Ngā Taonga: Lessons from a Grandmother Through Song and Dance – Recordings.
Description: Record and transpose music of individual songs included in the book above. Collaboration with family members of Nihipora Tatiana Kereama Wallace, former and current Polynesian Cultural Center musicians, and Māori cultural specialists from Nihipora’s Iwi (Ngai Tūhoe) to analyze and understand her perspectives on the topics in her compositions and why she felt it was important to tell these specific stories.

Title: Iosepa: Lessons from Conceptualizing, Building, Maintaining, and Caring for Iosepa, Our Family’s Perspective. Kihe ka Ihu I ka ʻAle Series.
Description: Co-authored. As children of William Kauaiwiʻulaokalani Wallace, III, the first director of the Johnathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian Language and Cultural Studies (now referred to as the Hawaiian Studies program at Brigham Young Univesrsity – Hawaiʻi) and captain of Iosepa, we collectively write about how Iosepa was conceptualized, built, maintained, and cared for.

Title: Iosepa, Voyagers of Faith – Braving the Unknown. Kihe ka Ihu i ka ʻAle Series.
Description: This project is an effort to document important historical facts about Iosepa as well as protocol specific to the waʻa kaulua Iosepa and its crew. Possibility of creating curriculum and suggestions for instruction.

Title: The Six Journals: Making Sense and Finding Peace. Kihe ka Ihu i ka ‘Ale Series.
Description: Studying the affect writing has in hepling make sense of and analyzing events and decisions in life for caregivers by turning to my experiences. The article claims that by incorporating six different types or styles of journaling, one can find peace. Information extracted from personal experiences shared in my dissertation on data collecting and findings.

Title: The Broad ʻOhana, Iosepa, and Lāʻie. Kihe ka Ihu i ka ʻAle Series (title may change)
Description: Co-authored with Christna Foma’i. This book is a genealogy project that documents the lives and events surrounding John Edwin Broad and Maggie Kenison, both lives influenced by their membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-dat Saints. Both prominent members of the Iosepa colony in Skull Valley, Tooele County, Utah and later, pillars in the community of Lāʻie, building the templw, beginnings of the Polynesian Cultural through the Hukilau performances and fundraisers, and establishing the Lāʻie community. Their faith was the motivation for making decisions throughout their lives. These decisions resulted in blessings that continued from generation to generation. Life lessons, decision making, and the motivation to endure will be analyzed.

Double-blind Peer Reviewed Conference Papers Presented

Date: April 12, 2024
Title: Dismantling Injustices in Education for Students with Exceptionalities Through Indigenous Strategies, Writing, and Creating.
Organization: American Educational Research Association (AERA)
Conference: AERA Annual Meeting: Dismantling Racial Incustice and Constructing Educational Possibilities: A Call to Action.
Special Interest Group: Indigenous People of the Pacific (IPP)
Paper/Proposal
Presentation

Date: October 21, 2023
Title: Kihe ka Ihu i ka ʻAle – Braving the Unknown, Facing Challenges Head-on: A Caregiver’s Journey of Navigating the “World of Disabilities”
Organization: Leadership in Disabilities and Achievement of Hawaiʻi (LDAH)
Conference: LDAH 16th Annual Traveling Mini-Conference (Oahu) 2023 (In-person)
Session: Adult Session
Paper/Proposal
Presentation

Date: May 5, 2023
Title: Writing and Creating as a Therapy Space
Organization: AERA
Conference: AERA Annual Meeting: Interrogating Consequential Education Research in Pursuit of Truth
Special Interest Group: IPP
Presentation
Paper/Proposal

Date: April 24, 2022
Title: Ola Nā Iwi Oʻu i Kuʻu Wahi Keiki: A Story of Personal Evolution Through Caregiving
Organization: AERA
Conference: AERA Annual Meeting: Cultivating Equitable Education Systems for the 21st Century
Special Interest Group: IPP
Presentation

Date: February 28-March 1, 2022
Title: Ola Nā Iwi Oʻu I Juʻu Wahi Keiki
Organization: Center on Disability Studies, University of Hawaiʻi – Mānoa
Conference: 37^th Annual Pacific Rim International Conference on Disability and Diversity: Mobilize for Action!
Session Type: Virtual
Presentation

Date: 2014
Presentation Title: My Journey: The Role of a Mother (with emphasis on raising a child with disabilities).
Organization: World Indigenous Peopleʻs Conference of Educators (WIPCE)
Conference: World Indigenous Peopleʻs Conference of Educators: E Mau Ana Ka Moʻolelo
Description: Sharing my journey as a mother, caregiver, and educator. Interactive discussions with other caregivers. Identifying challenges in caregiving and finding solutions.

Date: 2014
Title of Artwork: Pipili No Ka Pīlali I Ke Kumu Kukui (Respect)
Organization: WIPCE
Conference: WIPCE: E Mau Ana Ka Moʻolelo
Session: 3Rs: Respect, Responsibilities, & Re-righting art exhibition
Description: Mixed media artwork on canvas. A part of a collective art project where participants created pieces representing the 3 Rs identified. My example of respect depicts the respect we give our kupuna or elders in our indigenous societies.
Artwork

Date: 2014
Title of Artwork: My Life, My Love, My Kuleana (Responsibilities)
Organization: WIPCE
Conference: WIPCE: E Mau Ana Ka Moʻolelo
Session: 3Rs: Respect, Responsibilities, and Re-righting art exhibition
Description: Mixed media artwork on canvas. A part of a collective art project where participants created pieces representing the 3 Rs identified. My example of responsibilities depicts my responsibilities to my children, my education/acquiring knowledge, taking care of the land, my genealogy, the environment, etc.
Artwork

Date: 2014
Presentation Title: Mana Wāhine (Re-righting)
Organization: WIPCE
Conference: WIPCE: E Mau Ana Ka Moʻolelo
Description: Mixed Media artwork on canvas. A part of a collective art project where participants created pieces representing the 3Rs identified. My example of re-righting depicts turning to mana wāhine or strong, powerful women as essential sources of knowledge and influence in our communities. It represents where my strength comes from as I navigate life and interact with all things.
Artwork

Date: 2006
Presentation Title: Ipu – A Symbol of Abundance
Organization & Conference: Native Hawaiian Educators Association (NHEA)
Description: Co-presented on the significance of the ipu in Hawaiian culture and what it represents. An interactive workshop. Participants were able to clean, cut and take home their own ipu in addition to learning about the significance to Hawaiians.

CITIZENSHIP AND SERVICE

Internal

• ʻAha Huakaʻi Iosepa Council Member and former President
• Teacher Education Program Curriculum Committee member
• Teacher Education Program Outreach Committee member
• Search committee member for TEP Field Coordinator
• Search committee member for TEP Teacher Licensing Coordinator
• Search committee member for Director of Choral Music (Faculty of Culture, Language, and Performing Arts – CLAPA) – Fall 2022
• Search committee member for Social Work professor (Faculty of Education & Social Work) – Fall 2023 – Winter 2024
• Kumuwaiwai Sustainability Committee member – Fall 2022 – present
• Innovative Experiment in Student Learning Formats: Block classes research committee (project fof Academic Vice President, Isaiah Walker) – Fall 2023 – present
• Member of editorial committee and reviewer of submissions for publication in Intersections: Journal of Asia Pacific Undergraduate Research – Fall 2022 – present
• Women in Academia (WIA) member – Fall 2021 – present
• Women in Academia (WIA) Chair/President – July 2022 – present
• Facilitator of Women in Academia (WIA) Check-ins every Wednesday – Winter 2024.
• Hawaiian Club advisor – Fall 2022 – present
• Collaboration within the TEP:
  Point person for reestablishing the Special Education Minor. Collaborated with Juanita Denninghoff, Marilee Ching, and Tom Court. My roles (approximately 75%): Filling out information for the proposal; Submitting documents; Facilitating meetings with Juanita, Marilee, and Tom, as well as the HTSB; Reporting to TEP on progress. Special Education Minor reinstated. Fall 2022.
  One of three (3) TEP faculty collaborating with the Science faculty to determine Science Education criteria.
  Senior Missionary Seminar: Introduction to Hawaiʻi and the Lāʻie community. My role (75%). Lead Lecturer. The presentation was both lecture on a brief history of Lāʻie and an interactive performance, key terms and phrases, and pronunciation of Hawaiian words. Student lecturer (25%; Anela Wells). December 1, 2021.
• Collaboration across programs at BYUH (projects and individuals working with)
  Keynote speaker for the 2024 Undergraduate Research Conference (URC) – “He waʻa he moku, he moku he waʻa – Tha canoe is an island, an island is a canoe” on April 4, 2024.
  Panelist for the David O. McKay Lecture presentation – Fonua: Intersecting Cosmogony and Ecology. By Tēvita O. Kaʻili, PhD. February 13, 2024.
  Guest Lecturer in Dr. Juanita Denninghoff’s EDU 340 Multiculturalism and Culturally Responsive Instruction. Title: Significance of the Waʻa Kaulua Iosepa to the Lāʻie community. Spring 2024.
  Guest Lecturer in Dr. Juanita Denninghoss’s ELED 320 Children’s Literature in Elementary Schools. Title: Significance of the Waʻa Kaulua Iosepa to the Lāʻie Community. Spring 2024.
  Participant in Holokai Welcoming Ceremony for new students. Fall 2021, Winter 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Winter 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024, and expected to participate in Fall 2024.
  Participate in Graduation Ceremony. Fall 2021, Winter 2022, Fall 2022, Winter 2023, Fall 2023, Winter 2024, and expected to participate in Winter 2024.
  WIA interviews for eight (8) potential female faculty. Fall 2023 and Winter 2024.
  Keynote speaker for the Culture, Language, and Performing Arts Graduate Banquet. December 2023.
  Attended and briefly spoke with students at the Pacific Club Opening Social. September 29, 2023.
  Invited to speak as the WIA President at the New Faculty Orientation Luncheon. August 29, 2023.
  Hawaiian Club Advisor. Fall 2022 – present.
  Opening prayer at Convocation. September 30, 2022.
  Guest Lecturer in Dr. Melissa Walker Glenn’s Diction course. November 23, 2022, and November 28, 2022.
  Consultant and Guest Lecturer in Dr. Erica Glenn’s class regarding diction of Hawaiian songs and chants being performed in an upcoming concert. It helped improve their musicality and sound. November 28, 2022.
  Guest Lecturer in Dr. Kenneth Galea’i’s SOCW 390R Special Topics in Social Work Introduction to School Social Work course. Title: School-based Interventions & Multi-tiered systems of Supports. May 25, 2022.
  Research Participant. Interview. Researcher: Ammon Wilcken. Topic: Teachers perspectives on improvement of teacher practice; A university that focuses on teaching vs. a university that focuses on research and professors knowledge and perspectives of each. May 27, 2022.
  Interviewed for the Center for Learning and Teaching (CLT) Writing Workshop. Video shared with attendees. May 11, 2022.
  Guest Lecturer in Dr. Kenneth Galea’i’s SOCW 390 Special Topics in Social Work Rehabilitation Social Work, Counselors & Vocational Rehabilitation course. Title: Issues of Disability and the System of Services to Individuals, Families, and Communities: Rehabilitation Social Work Counselors & Vocational Rehabilitation (in the context of personal, social, political, and cultural factors). February 24, 2022.
  Spotlight Full Edited Interview (for presentation) regarding research for the Joseph F. Smith Library. Interview.
  Research Participant and Interviewee. Study: Ways to Improve the Quality of Our Pacific Island Student’s Educational Experiences While at Brigham Young University of Hawai’i. Researchers: Dr. Spencer Scanlan and Dr. Erika Feinauer. December 12, 2021.

External

• Teacher at Hoapili University. Course: Teach the Teachers. Description: This course brings together students from BYUH’s SPED 309 class with students from Hoapili University to collaborate on what works for neurodiverse students in elementary and secondary schools. BYUH students learn strategies, Hoapili University students get to socialize and teach, and all students get to interact and form positive relationships with each other. Begin Fall 2024.
• Guest Speaker. Lāʻie Days Kick-off Fireside. (Lāʻie North Stake Center). Theme: We’ll Find a Place Which God for Us Prepared, Far Away in the West . . .” Lāʻie Saints’ Pioneer Trek to Iosepa. Talk Title: Kihe ka Ihu i ka ‘Ale: Broad ‘Ohana and Iosepa – Skull Valley and Lāʻie. June 30, 2024.
• Collaborator with Hoapili, a 501c3 organization that supports individuals who are neurodiverse and their families. Winter 2024 – present.
• Reviewer of Papers/Proposals for Presentation at the following Conferences
  2025 AERA Annual Meeting: Research, Remedy, and Repair: Toward Just Education Renewal. Reviewing proposals for presentations in the following Special Interest Groups (SIG):
  Stress, Coping, and Resilience
  Special and Inclusive Education Research
  Indigenous Peoples of the Pacific
  Spirituality and Education
  Disability Studies in Education
  2024 AERA Annual Meeting: Dismantling Racial Injustice and Constructing Educational Possibilities: A Call to Action. Reviewing proposals for presentations in the following SIGs:
  Stress, Coping, and Resilience
  Special and Inclusive Education Research
  Indigenous Peoples of the Pacific
  Spirituality and Education
  Disability Studies in Education
  2023 AERA Annual Meeting: Interrogating Consequential Education Research in Pursuit of Truth. Reviewing proposals for presentations in the following SIGs:
  Stress, Coping, and Resilience
  Special and Inclusive Education Research
  Indigenous Peoples of the Pacific
  Spirituality and Education
  Disability Studies in Education
  2023 38^th Annual Pacific Rim International Conference on Disability and Diversity (PacRim): Coming Together and Moving Forward: Hoʻokahi ka ʻilau like ʻana: Wield the Paddle Together.
  2022 AERA Annual Meeting: Cultivating Equitable Systems for the 21^st Century. Reviewing proposals for presentations in the following SIG:
  Indigenous Peoples of the Pacific
• Iosepa Devotional Speaker (Makakilo Stake Center). Topic: Testimony, history of the name Iosepa, conceptualization, planning, building, and maintaining Iosepa.
• Iosepa Devotional Conductor (Kualoa Beach Park).
• Iosepa Devotional Speaker (He’eia Kea Harbor). Topic: Testimony, history of the name Iosepa conceptualization, planning, building, and maintaining Iosepa.
• Iosepa Crew Member. Participate in dry dock preparations for sailing, anchor watches, training, and sailing. March 2001 – Present.
• Research Participant. Interviewee. Study: Family engagement. Researcher: Victoria Timmerman. October 25, 2021.
• Nā Kamalei K.E.E.P. Presentations for parents from June 2003 – August 2007 on:
  Handling Stress
  Beginning Ukulele
  Instruction
  Reading and the Benefits of It
  Reading and the Benefits of Exposing our Children to Another Language (Hawaiian)
  Ipu – A Symbol of Abundance. Hands-on interactive activity.
  Hula
  Kapa Haka (Māori dancing and weaponry)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, MEMBERSHIPS, AND SKILLS

• Tenured Hawaiʻi Department of Education (HIDOE) Teacher
• Licensed by Hawaiʻi Teacherʻs Standards Board (HTSB) on July 15, 2008, in the category of SPED – Mild to Moderate K – 12. License expires June 30, 2028.
• Highly qualified teacher in Elementary Education and Special Education.
• Formerly a parent representative for ʻAha Kauleo, an organization under HIDOE for Hawaiian immersion education.
• Board member of the ʻAha Huakaʻi Iosepa Leadership Council, a group that directly impacts the care and management of the waʻa kaulua Iosepa at BYUH.
• Member of the American Educators Research Association (AERA).
• Member of the Native Hawaiian Educators Association (NHEA).
• Member of the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC).
• Member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
• Language spoken: English (Fluent – unofficial); Hawaiian (Proficient – unofficial); Māori (Conversational – unofficial).

CV Last Revised August 19,2024