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2014-2015 Annual Report
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Aloha!
The school reached its seventh year milestonein the 2014-2015 school year with 27 studentsand 5 staff members.
Highlights of this school year included receiv-ing the “State Children Youth Day Hero Award”
for the ongoing “Plant Your Butts Here” project.All students received special medals designedby artist, Wyland, and even performed at thespecial ceremony and banquet held on Octo-ber 11 at the Dole Cannery. Another highlightwas sending the Butter ybotics robotics team toLouisville, Kentucky for the 2015 World Champi-onship.
The school continued to re ne and enrich itscurriculum. A new S.T.E.A.M. (Science, Tech-nology, Engineering, Arts, & Math) curriculumwas integrated into the core academic offer-ings. Four one week S.T.E.A.M. modules wereplanned throughout the school year for stu-dents to be involved in a week long learningmodule which focused on the engineer designprocess and sharpened critical thinking skills.From building bridges, towers, and rollercoast-ers, students were actively involved in hands-onlearning projects that covered various skills inscience, technology, performing arts, visual artsand language arts.
Two sixth grade students graduated at the endof the school year. Both graduating studentswere longtime students in the program. Adiawas a Huakailani student for ve years andJordyn attended for three years. Adia was ac-cepted at SEEQS - School for Examining Essen-tial Questions of Sustainability and Jordyn wasaccepted at Mid-Paci c Institute for SeventhGrade Middle School.
-Kaori Brown
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School Tuition: $10,500
School is a nonpro t 501(c)(3) organization governedby a Board of Directors
Located in Kailua Town
146 Hekili Street, Suite 104 and 205
Leasing 2,300 sq ft space from Alexander and Baldwin
27 students enrolled in Grades K through 6
Students use the nearby Kailua District Park Field andPlayground for Physical Education and Recess
Looking at longterm sustainability, the school is ad-dressing growth in the student body and increasingteacher pay
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Huakailani School for Girls uses a powerful education formu-la that enables students to thrive, excel and grow – in schooland beyond. A major part of that formula is S.T.E.A.M. Science,Technology, Engineering, the Arts, and Math are integratedinto the curriculum for all grades, from K-6. Combining the lat-est innovations in technology and education with a girl-cen-tered focus equips students with a strong academic founda-tion and gives them the tools to move on to their top MiddleSchool choices with con dence.
The school, limited to only 27 students, may be small, but it’sdoing big things! Huakailani School has grown an urban gar-den that’s raised and released over 300 monarch butter ies,has become a food-waste free school, and has developeda project that has removed thousands of cigarette butts fromthe local water system.
The school is also home to an award-winning robotics pro-gram. Last summer, the Huakailani Butter ybotics VEX IQ Ro -botics Team took home the Design Award at the VEX Interna -tional Summer Games!
Every year, Huakailani Girls are making their mark in the com-munity and growing in leaps and bounds. Huakailani Schoolfor Girls provides the right resources, an encouraging environ-ment, and opportunities to excel, and watches their girls soar!
2014-2015 Board of Directors
Pamela “Pam” HarmsAttorney
Genevieve FreemanKailua Business Woman
Hillary DarbyCommander, United States Navy
Justin KirschnerConstruction Consultant
Kaori BrownHuakailani Director
5 Educational Staff
Kaori BrownDirector and 4-5-6 Core Teacher
Keiko AkamineK-6 Japanese Language TeacherMath Specialist
Mei Ling DominguesOf ce Manager
Christina ConnorsK- 1 Core Teacher
Caitlin Tillotson2-3 Core Teacher
Allysha AngelesTeaching Assistant and After School Director
2014-2015 StaffOur staff is composed of women who are wonderful role models for younggirls. Each teacher is committed to differentiated education and ignite thepassion for learning in each student.
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Children Youth Day Hero Award
The community service project that these girls imple-mented and now lead and maintain, started out asan idea when they were in third grade (they are now5th and 6th graders). The project is called "Plant YourButts Here". Since 2010, when the rst seven CigaretteButt Planters were place in the Kailua community, thegirls have helped remove over 10,000 cigarette buttspolluting the area. The project encourages smokers to"plant their cigarette butts" in the planters and not im-properly disposed on the ground where cigarette buttscause toxins leach into the groundwater system, killnative birds and become eyesores to the community.The girls, who are now in Grades 5 and 6, not only con-tinuously monitor and replace old planters and addnew ones, they personally go around and clean outthe planters on a weekly basis and remove improperlydisposed butts from the area four times a year. Theyhave stayed committed to the project for four yearsand even give up recess to complete community ser-vice tasks!
Service Learning Projects
By participating in environmental education and service learning projects such as Adopt-a-Block and“Plant Your Butts Here,” Huakailani students, parents, and teachers are enthusiastic leaders of the com-munity.
The school has been stewards of the community for 6 years with the City and County of Honolulu’s Adopt-a-Block program. They removed 3,255 improperly disposed cigarette butts during the school year.
School Urban Garden
School gardens are a wonderful way to use the yard as
a classroom, reconnect students with the natural worldand the true source of food, and teach them valuablegardening and agricultural concepts and skills that in-tegrate several subjects, such as math, science, art,health and physical education, and social studies, aswell as several educational goals, including personaland social responsibility.
The school’s Urban Garden Club run by the fth andsixth graders sells vegetables from the garden in a minischool market day to parents and visitors. The clubuses money raised by sales to purchase seeds, soil,and plants for the garden.
“I love Huakailani because, I think it is the bestschool everybody is nice and nobody is a bully.
The second reason why I love this school isbecause I get to do challenging things.
The third reason is becausewe always get to have
a little fun in every activity!”
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6th Annual NutcrackerMusical Performance
The annual Nutcracker Performance in December isan extravagant show. Each student takes on two rolesin the musical, with many of the roles being traditionalfor each grade level. This allows students to look for-ward to growing from being a mouse in kindergartento playing a lead role as Clara in fourth grade. Per-forming arts education is a hallmark of the school. Itaids child development through social skills, disci-pline, memorization, building a strong work ethic, self-esteem, performance skills, and an appreciation forphysical tness.
2015 MOA Children's Painting Contest"Beauty Through the Eyes of our Children"
Two Huakailani student’s artworks were selected for
the MOA Children's Painting Contest, "Beauty Throughthe Eyes of our Children" Exhibit.
The paintings were on display from April 10th - April12th at Windward Mall and also at the State Exhibitionfrom May 30th - June 6th at The Honolulu Museum ofArt.
2016 Father-Daughter Butterfly BallDisco Theme
The 2015 Ball was a Disco Ball! The Disco Ball themebrought together fathers, uncles, grandpas and girlstogether for a night of groovy out ts and dancing. Inaddition to raising $3,279 for the school’s enrichmentprograms, the event also teaches young girls what itmeans to be treated with love and respect. The goalis that fathers will continue to be positive role modelsand that these girls will have healthy relationships asteens and adults as a result.
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REVENUE
Tuition and Fees
Fundraising
Grants
Donations
Interest
TOTAL
367,126
9,785
2,845
9,655
33
$389,444
NET ASSETS
Start of the Year
Net Income
Reduction in Restricted Funds
End of School Year
55,974
23,221
0
$79,195
FUNDS AT THE END OF THE 2014-2015 SCHOOL YEAR
RestrictedUnrestricted
TOTAL
34578,850
$79,195
Fiscal YearJune 1, 2014 - May 31, 2015
EXPENSES
Educational ProgramsInstructional Support & Administration
Marketing
Faciity & Maintenance
Staf ng
Loan Interest
Fundraising
TOTAL
31,48752,926
3,769
73,409
199,082
560
4,990
$366,223
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