Congratulations to Holomua's Librarian, Mrs. Arita for being awarded 2019 Innovation Grant! With this grant, Holomua will be moving forward to a state of the art Makerspace! Click here to view the entire email from Superintendent Kishimoto.
Innovative projects will transform future learning
Innovation is the key to HIDOE’s progress and I’m proud to say that our schools are meeting the challenge at all levels. We recently awarded 14 School Design and three Computer Science Innovation Grants in the program’s second cycle.


Administered by the Office of Strategy, Innovation, and Performance, the grants are committed to strengthening innovation and improving student achievement in our DOE and charter schools. Each of the awardee programs developed their proposals around our Learning Organization strategies of School Design, Student Voice and Teacher Collaboration, and provided a cohesive action plan with measurable outcomes.

The projects’ diverse array of topics impact and inform the collective work that we’re all doing by trying new ideas at the classroom-, grade- and school-level. The grants serve as a proving ground where we can observe results, fully analyze why a program might be so successful at one school and determine if its positive results can be replicated at others. Truly successful programs may expand to other schools and augment or even replace our existing core organizational practices, advancing our entire system.
Administered by the Office of Strategy, Innovation, and Performance, the grants are committed to strengthening innovation and improving student achievement in our DOE and charter schools. Each of the awardee programs developed their proposals around our Learning Organization strategies of School Design, Student Voice and Teacher Collaboration, and provided a cohesive action plan with measurable outcomes.

The projects’ diverse array of topics impact and inform the collective work that we’re all doing by trying new ideas at the classroom-, grade- and school-level. The grants serve as a proving ground where we can observe results, fully analyze why a program might be so successful at one school and determine if its positive results can be replicated at others. Truly successful programs may expand to other schools and augment or even replace our existing core organizational practices, advancing our entire system. 
We have the collective skill, depth of teaching and administrative resources within HIDOE to cultivate and develop programs that can even serve as models for other school systems nationwide and across the globe.
HIDOE’s updated Strategic Plan for the next decade, currently in development, will be grounded in our pledge that great ideas are incorporated into our Learning Organization core practices and that HIDOE will continue to be a hub of innovation that will be constantly learning and improving for the benefit of our students.


I want to congratulate our 17 schools and programs, who join projects well underway at 13 schools from the first cohort, on these transformative awards and thank them for these exceptional design ideas that will lead our way forward.
School Design Innovation Grant Awardees
Holomua Elementary: Imi Na'auao (To Seek Knowledge)
Transforms library into an innovative Makerspace with movable, adaptive furniture, 3D printers and other technology tools to put students on a pathway towards success for both academics and citizenship.
