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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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