Hawaii

Hawaii Affiliate

Through the support and leadership of the Hawaii Business Roundtable and Hawaii Department of Education and with the support of the Hawaii P-20 Initiative, Just for the Kids-Hawaii is driving school improvement across the state. Leadership and funding from the Castle Foundation is helping to make this a reality.

Contact:
Carl Takamura
Executive Director, Hawaii Business Roundtable

For additional information on becoming a Just for the Kids state affiliate, click here.

Projects completed include Just for the Kids School Reports for all schools at all levels, and an information flyer that explains to parents the value and how to use the Web site.
New Executive Summary of the 2005 Hawaii Best Practice Study

Welcome to the Just for the Kids - Hawaii, a school information Web site that provides actionable data and practices proven best in raising academic achievement and closing achievement gaps at all grade levels.

Since its inception in 1995, Just for the Kids' primary focus has been helping find and fulfill every school's potential for reaching excellence in student achievement. JFTK services and tools have been created to support school systems that accept the challenge of preparing ALL students for college and skilled careers. The JFTK strategy toward achieving excellence is embodied in three basic steps:

Step 1 - Inform: Analyze your school's achievement potential using Just for the Kids' consistency, opportunity gap and growth reports based on your state's academic test results

Step 2 - Inspire: Learn and compare your practices to those of consistently higher performers using the interactive Framework of Best Practices

Step 3 - Improve: Apply what you've learned in Steps 1 and 2 toward intentional and targeted improvement planning and implementation

Just for the Kids tools and services first became available for Hawaii in 2006 and currently include 2006 Just for the Kids School Reports for elementary, middle, and high schools. Hawaii-based researchers have also studied Consistently Higher Performing Elementary Schools (2005) with the findings available through the NCEA Best Practice Framework.