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Papers by Anela Iwane

AAPI Nexus Journal, 2020

The Hawaiian kingdom, prior to the illegal overthrow of its monarchy (1893) and the subsequent En... more The Hawaiian kingdom, prior to the illegal overthrow of its monarchy (1893) and the subsequent English-only compulsory education (1896), had boasted a 91-95 percent literacy rate. Since the U.S. annexation of Hawai'i (1898), however, the settler colonial school system has maintained inequitable student outcomes for Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders that have become an intergenerational "achievement gap" across multiple academic and disciplinary student indicators (i.e., proficiency, suspension rates). The Office of Hawaiian Education (OHE) uses a theory of change that engages activist research to identify specific historical contexts to contemporary circumstances and issues, to inform futurities for Hawaiian education. These initiatives seek to rethread Ha-waiian education into the tapestry of traditional sources of knowledge production that improve cultural, intellectual, and political sustainability for all learners. Today, OHE uses a SWOT and GAP analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on Hawai'i Department of Education stakehold-ers (students, their families, schools, and communities) to inform its educational P4 (practices, projects, programs, and policies) that will move Hawaiian education for all learners forward, beyond the current

AAPI Nexus Journal, 2020

The Hawaiian kingdom, prior to the illegal overthrow of its monarchy (1893) and the subsequent En... more The Hawaiian kingdom, prior to the illegal overthrow of its monarchy (1893) and the subsequent English-only compulsory education (1896), had boasted a 91-95 percent literacy rate. Since the U.S. annexation of Hawai'i (1898), however, the settler colonial school system has maintained inequitable student outcomes for Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders that have become an intergenerational "achievement gap" across multiple academic and disciplinary student indicators (i.e., proficiency, suspension rates). The Office of Hawaiian Education (OHE) uses a theory of change that engages activist research to identify specific historical contexts to contemporary circumstances and issues, to inform futurities for Hawaiian education. These initiatives seek to rethread Ha-waiian education into the tapestry of traditional sources of knowledge production that improve cultural, intellectual, and political sustainability for all learners. Today, OHE uses a SWOT and GAP analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on Hawai'i Department of Education stakehold-ers (students, their families, schools, and communities) to inform its educational P4 (practices, projects, programs, and policies) that will move Hawaiian education for all learners forward, beyond the current