Kapolei High School

"Kapolei High School", located in Kapolei, Hawaii on the Island of Oahu, opened its doors on July 24, 2000 to 375 freshmen. In the 2006-2007 school year, Kapolei High School has over 2,300 students in grades 9-12. The school serves nearby communities including Kapolei, Makakilo, Honokai Hale and Kalaeloa. It's mascot is the Hurricane, and the school colors are teal, black and silver. Kapolei High School helps the community by providing students, families, educators, and business partners a collaborative learning environment.

Curriculum

Kapolei High School offers a curriculum that challenges students academically and provides them with a foundation in which to base their future goals. Working under the guidelines of "Breaking Ranks: Changing an American Institution and the Hawaii Content and Performance Standards II", classes, integrated teams and academies have been developed. Through these offerings KHS has created a climate conducive to teaching and learning. Essential knowledge is attained through innovative projects that integrate skills so real life connections can be established and maintained. Engaged in their own learning, Kapolei High School students are tailored with a course schedule filled with academic rigor and technology. Through their four years, they will have taken a variety of courses that will compose a career launching pad, personalized to meet the individual interests and needs of each student. It is in hopes that this process of authentic learning will serve as a gateway to multiple options and future success in the years beyond high school.

In 9th and 10th grades students work on team projects, complete core academic classes, and begin exploring career fields. At the end of 10th grade, they choose an academy in which to focus their learning:
* Business Academy [B.A.]
* Creative Media Academy [C.M.A.]
* Fine Arts Academy [F.A.A.]
* Graphic Arts Academy [G.A.A.]
* Health Careers Academy [H.C.A.]
* Human Services Academy [H.S.A.]
* Learning Center For Applied Technology [LCAT]
* Professional Sciences Academy [P.S.A.]
* Leadership Academy [L.A.]

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Class of 2010,2011 standard credits:high school diploma:24.0 creditshonors:25.0 creditsClasses of 2008,2009 standard credits:high school diploma:22.0 creditshonors:23.0 credits

Faculty

As of 2007, Kapolei High School is directed by principal Alvin Nagasako, the goal of the faculty is to ensure Kapolei High School as an exciting and dynamic student-centered learning environment at the heart of the community. It is with this vision that the administrators, teachers, faculty, and staff have united creating the motto "one team". It is through dedicated teamwork that good instructional practice and learning throughout all levels of the school community is achieved.

Community

Kapolei High School builds community through partnerships that support learning, parent engagement, and service learning.

Volunteers from local businesses and organizations serve as mentors and advisers for students and teachers. They participate in assessing students' performance on projects; applying real-world standards to evaluate students' content mastery, workplace skills, and activities.

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Kapolei High School emphasizes projects that make a positive impact and contribution to our community and environmental needs.

The combination of these three strategies creates connections between adults and young people that break the traditional roles of "teacher" and "student." Kapolei High School strives to create opportunities for students, families, teachers, and community partners to learn from each other by sharing their unique expertise. Our role is not only to enhance the skills and knowledge of our students, but also to do so in a way that expands their vision of the world beyond the school walls.

tudent Activities

The Student Activities Program complements classroom instruction by providing learning experiences which meet individual needs and develop citizenship skills and positive attitudes in less formal settings. The goal is to provide experiences which will enable each individual to learn and think and act intelligently in achieving maximum, self-fulfillment and in preserving and contributing to the strength of his or her school, community, state, nation, and world.

Clubs are categorized into one of the three areas that operate within the framework of the schools' student activities program. They are:
* Service Clubs: School organized clubs that perform school and community service as the major segment of their program.
* Academic or Subject related clubs: Clubs formed to further interests in a curricular field.
* Special Interest: Clubs which students form to further their interest in a non-curricular area.

All clubs at Kapolei High School, regardless of their designation, are required to participate in community service during the school year.

One club has emerged from being only a school-based program (2003) into a community-involved program (2005 - present). This program is known as the Performing Arts Center of Kapolei (PACK) run by Theatre teacher Rachelle Amparo and Meagan Olson. A [http://www.packapolei.org website] designed to advertise the auditions and performances was created by Steven Olson, husband of Meagan Olson.

The largest club on campus is the Rotary sponsored Interact Club which has grown exponentially from 50 members in 2004 - 2005 school year to 170 in the 2007 - 2008 year. The club was chartered by advisors Merry Ifuku and Diana Okamura who continue to lead the club with caring, dignity, and integrity - inspiring the school's youth to become ambassadors of the community with the moto "Helping Today, Chaning Tomorrow". A third advisor, Caroline Lee, joined in 2007. The main focus of the club is to partake in community service events both locally, island-wide, and to focus on one major international service project yearly. For the current school year, the Interact Club inspired a school-wide effort in support of The Well of Hope Foundation to raise money for a water well to be drilled in Jilo Ager, Ethiopia providing thousands of villagers clean, accessible, and healthy drinking water. The club has since helped to raise US$3,000 for the foundation and as of February the well was successfully drilled and pumping water for the villages. In response to these efforts, the club was honored as the 2008 'Interact Club of the Year' at the Hawaii Interact Convention. Despite the accolades, the club is committed to helping those in need and supporting causes that will slowly, but surely contribute to a bettered future.

Past Valedictorians

Class of 2007: Austin Healy (Brigham Young University, University of Utah), Kainoa Bryant (Occidental College, Los Angeles), Sarah Ashmore (University of Washington), Kalalau Cantrell (Ball State University), Lori Nabong (Washington State University), Anna Liwanag (University of Washington)