This training and coaching project is working with a cohort of Hawai‘i charter school leaders and educators to establish and conduct a networked improvement community (NIC) exploring best practices for place-based, project-based, and ‘aina-based instruction and assessment. With REL Pacific facilitation support and resources informed by research, the cohort is establishing their NIC processes, components, goals, monitoring measures, and identifying common design elements and implementation practices that support high-quality place-based, project-based, and culturally sustaining learning.

This project supports capacity building for Hawai‘i charter school administrators and teachers as they design performance assessments that measure standards-aligned student learning outcomes in place-based and project-based tasks. The project is centered on the use of high-quality, curriculum-embedded common performance assessments because of the potential to positively influence teaching and learning.