Hale Kuamoʻo Center for Hawaiian Language

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Alohalani Housman, Division Chair

• Alohalani Housman, Hawaiian Medium Teacher Development (in-service) and Curriculum Development
• Keola Donaghy, Media and Telecommunications Services

The Hale Kuamoʻo Center for Hawaiian Language and Culture Through the Medium of Hawaiian is the support and research division of Ka Haka ʻUla O Keʻelikōlani College of Hawaiian Language. The Center encourages and supports the expansion of the Hawaiian language as a medium of communication in education, business, government, and other contexts of social life in the public and private sectors of Hawaiʻi and beyond. The Center’s programs include the following.

Curriculum Development, Media and Telecommunications Services

• Development, production and distribution of instructional materials for implementation in Hawaiian medium schools
• Hawaiian language research and development
• Media and Telecommunications

Hawaiian Medium Inservice

• Leo Ola (Summer Institute)
• Kākoʻo Kula (School Site Support)
• Kākoʻo Kaiapuni Hawaiʻi (Teacher Inservice)

Outreach

Outreach currently includes work with the Hawaiian community both locally and abroad, as well as with other native peoples, especially those of North America and the Pacific. Hale Kuamoʻo is also the Secretariat for the Polynesian Languages Forum, which unites the developing indigenous languages of 13 Polynesian governments. The Linguistics Program faculty of Ka Haka ʻUla O Keʻelikōlani are at the forefront of developing second and third language teaching programs for the College’s Hawaiian medium laboratory school program.