2017 Annual Conference Schedule and Sessions
3rd Annual Hawaii Homeschool Network Conference
Saturday, April 29, 2017
9:00 am - 3:30 pm
in Kanu o ka `Aina Halau Ho`olako in Waimea, Big Island
Saturday, April 29, 2017
9:00 am - 3:30 pm
in Kanu o ka `Aina Halau Ho`olako in Waimea, Big Island
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Schedule of Events
Organized Session Agenda 9:00 am - Sign-in / Continental Breakfast 9:20 am - Welcome and Introductions 9:30 am - Session 1 10: 30 am - 12:30 pm - Featured Keynote SpeakerSession 12:30 pm - Lunch/ Networking / Curriculum Swap 1:30 pm - Session 2 2:30 pm - Session 3/ Resource Fair Official 2017 Annual Conference Program coming soon Student Supervision Student supervision is available from 9:00 am - 3:30 pm for students ages 3+ (children must be potty-trained). More details about student actvities are coming soon. This service will cost $30/student and include lunch and a snack. Parents must pre-register children online for the childcare room in order to provide time for planning activities and purchasing supplies. Please arrive 15 minutes early to complete waiver and registration paperwork for your child(ren). Registration for the childcare option is available in the ticket sales area on Eventbrite. |
Registration
Click here to register online. Early Registration is encouraged to help determine the amount of food and supplies needed.
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Featured Session - Keynote Speaker
Hank Smith, PhD Keynote Topic: "The Anatomy of High Trust Families" About this Session: Trust is vital to a successful and happy family. Through understanding and strengthening your family’s Trust C.O.R.E., you’ll have relationships that can stand the tests of time and trials. About Hank: Dr. Henry “Hank” Smith grew up the son of a golf professional in sunny St. George, Utah. After earning a Bachelor’s Degree from Dixie State University, Hank earned a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Utah State University. Most recently, Hank completed his PhD at Brigham Young University where he now works as an instructor. In addition to his work corporate training and education consulting, Hank enjoys speaking at assemblies for elementary, junior high, and high schools around the country. Hank has been published in journals and books around the world. His article, “Trust at Ground Zero: Trust and Collaboration within the Professional Learning Community” was recently featured in the bestselling international book, “Trust and School Life.” Hank has also authored many books and “Audio CDs” with Deseret Book and Covenant Communications and speaks for tens of thousands of youth and adults each year. Hank enjoys running marathons and eating lots of ice cream, which is why he runs marathons. Hank, his wife Sara, and their 5 adorable children currently live in Mapleton, Utah. Visit Hank's website for even more information. |
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Featured Speaker - Jean Burk, College Prep Genius
Build an Amazing Homeschool Transcript (Don’t fear the high school years but learn little-known information that can give your student an edge.) There is only ONE secret ingredient to giving credibility to a homeschool transcript. If you don’t know it, author Jean Burk will share the answer in this incredible lecture. Discover the insider criteria that Harvard uses to judge applicants and why summer break needs to be more than just a vacation. Learn the differences between AP, Dual Enrollment, and CLEP courses and the pros and cons of adding them to your schedule. Find out about the 3-Tier credit plan, so you can correctly build a portfolio that will impress any admissions counselor. If your kids are planning to go to college, you cannot afford to miss this engagement. Going to College- It's Elementary! (A Cradle to Cap n Gown approach to FREE College!) Grade school is not too early to gain an edge for the future without the pressure that often accompanies students later in school. Learn to teach younger students age-appropriate goal setting while identifying their passions and directing their future. Parents will be given a roadmap for success to create future leaders, find scholarships now and teach successful life skills. Discover a fun assignment that contains the five key things that children need every day for a strong foundation of health and well-being all throughout their educational journey. The 13 Most Important Soft Skills to Teach Your Children (Soft skills are the missing ingredient today for success in college and career; equip your teens NOW!) Employment experts agree that technical skills get your foot in the door, but it’s the soft skills that get you the job -- and help you keep it. Your work ethic, your attitude, your communication skills, your emotional intelligence and a whole host of other personal attributes are the soft skills crucial for career success. During this workshop we’ll explore the soft skills employers covet today and uncover simple ways you can instill these skills in your teen before he/she leaves the nest. |
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Organized Sessions
Organized session info will be added as they are accepted. This list is updated often as sessions are still being submitted.
Phonemic Awareness and Phonics
Session Leader: Linda Jones
Session Description: Phonetic Reading with Silent Elephant “e” is a reading program based on phonemic awareness, developed for ALL learners of ANY age. Proven methods enable students to make sense of the abstract rules of phonics through fun, engaging and memorable lessons. The Silent Elephant “e” program is classroom tested with demonstrated results that are nothing short of amazing. Students typically advanced one grade level for every two months in the program with only 1.5 hours per week of instruction. Every student improved their reading ability and every student in the program for 3 months progressed to his or her grade level or beyond, regardless of starting point. Silent Elephant “e” is particularly effective for dyslexic and struggling learners, providing an explicit, meticulously organized, systematic, and multi-sensory program. The unique phonemic awareness and phonetic reading program brings a focused approach to stimulate the under activated parts in the dyslexic brain. Silent Elephant “e” begins with phonemic awareness as the basis for understanding reading and how it “works”. Upon mastery of phonemic awareness, children are prepared to succeed in phonics, the most effective way to teach reading. Phonics rules are taught in a progressive sequence that builds one phonics skill upon another. Each lesson engages the “whole learner” through active participation using stories, puppets, plays, magic, food, drawings, writing, and games.
You Can Do It! Beginning Homeschooling: An Overview of Homeschooling Programs and Philosophies
Session Leader: Nicole Ryan
Session Description: Let's face it: sometimes homeschooling can be intimidating. How do I start? What do I do? Why isn't this working? Often times it takes families some time to find the style of homeschooling to fit their needs. What works for one family may not work for another, and what works for one of your children may not work for the others. Join us to talk about all the different types of programs that exist in the homeschooling world: unit studies,school at home, blended learning, virtual learning, unschooling and more!
Understanding Your Child's Communication Style
Session Leader: Mark Vickers
Session Description: This seminar will discuss how to identify your child's communication style and methods for effective communication while teaching. Parents will learn what a specific style hears, says, and needs in an educational setting.
5 Simple Ways to Jumpstart your Homeschool & Inspire, not Require
Session Leader: Jyness Jones
Session Description: Whether you are new to homeschooling or a veteran, come learn 5 simple tips that can transform the mediocre into greatness and dissolve doubts and fears into a powerful positive force in your home. Join us to jumpstart the path to your dream homeschool.
Hawaii Canoe Plant Foods
Session Leader: Marcy Montgomery
Session Description: Overview of 10 canoe crops for food and medicine, recipe sharing, and a tasting.
Rapport Remotely
Session Leader: Myles DeCoito
Session Description: A challenge and opportunity in the virtual learning space is establishing rapport at a distance. This session will focus on the challenges around creating and growing rapport when working with parents and students at a distance.
Blue Zones - Purpose Workshop
Session Leader: Megan Yarberry
Session Description: Why attend a Purpose Workshop? People with purpose live longer, are happier and more productive. Knowing and using your gifts and strengths is called "living with purpose" or "doing one’s life work." People who have purpose, or a sense of their gifts and strengths—and use them daily—have increased well-being and tend to live about seven years longer than those who do not. One of the goals of the Blue Zones Project® is to help people discover a clear definition of their gifts or deepen their sense of purpose to improve the quality of their lives. Are you making a difference where you live and work? Each person has an individual set of strengths and talents that can be used to lead a truly meaningful life. Whatever your role within your community, attend a Purpose Workshop and start adding years to your life and life to your years.
Options for Homeschoolers: Harmony Educational Services
Session Leader: Nicole Ryan
Session Description: Hawaii students who want to receive Harmony curriculum for free do so by enrolling in one of the public schools that Harmony partners with. Upon enrollment with Harmony, and the public school, students receive: Free Curriculum, Educational Reimbursement and Mentor Support.
Introduction to Classical Conversations
Session Leader: Barbara Franke and Laura Pulluaim
Session Description: Join us in this one hour session to learn about Classical Conversations (CC), a homeschool program that combines at-home learning with a weekly classroom experience to give kids the best of both worlds. Classical Conversations believes you are your child's best teacher. We support homeschooling families through weekly community meetings lead by trained parent/tutors. We will provide an overview of the "classical model" of education which has proven effective over the centuries. The model cultivates the love of learning and provides students and parents with the tools to be self-directed learners!
"Eia Hawai'i", a Hawaiian Cultural-based Leadership Program
Session Leader: Lanakila Mangauil
Session Description: The Hawaiian Cultural Center of Hāmākua offers, "Eia Hawai'i", a Hawaiian Cultural based leadership program focusing on place based education through indigenous knowledge and practices. A twice a week, 10-12 week program for our home school community to be able to access Hawaiian Culture and teachings. Lead by Center Director and head teacher Lanakila Mangauil, learn about Hawai'i's unique natural environment and the practices of the people who symbiotically existed here for thousands of years and developed amazing in depth ways and means to thrive in these islands without ravaging the natural resources. Through traditional songs and chants, hula and mo'olelo, protocol, and hands on arts and crafts students begin to build an intimate relationship with the land they call home.
Resource Fair Participants
Resource booths will be in the central conference room.
- Usborne Books
- Harmony Educational Services
- College Prep Genius
- Kaʻohā Online Academy – Kanu o ka Aina Public Charter School
- Elevate Academics
- One Island Greenschool and Same Canoe
- Classical Learning Resource Center
- Waking Willow Workshop
- Blackbird & Company (information only)
- BJU Press/HomeWorks by Precept (information only)
- Silent Elephant "e" LLC
- Kaupe'a of Laupahoehoe Community Public Charter School
- Moving Beyond the Page
- Classical Conversations Kona
- Blue Zones Project
- Keystone Homeschool
- Suzuki Piano Lessons/Kindermusik Classes
- Hawaii Community Federal Credit Union - Bonzai Financial Ed Program
- Heartlight Montessori Homeschool
- Hawaiian Cultural Center of Hamakua
- UH Hilo North Hawaii Education and Research Center
- Waikoloa Friends of the Library - Newberry Quiz Bowl
- Hawaii Academy of Arts & Science
- Big Island Sailing Foundation
- Aloha Theatre
Mahalo to Our 2017 Conference Sponsors
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