The pilina kaiaulu program: immersive professional development for engaging climate change, watershed health, and biocultural stewardship will provide an immersive, place-based programming to…

The pilina kaiaulu program: immersive professional development for engaging climate change, watershed health, and biocultural stewardship will provide an immersive, place-based programming to support bioculturally-based, stem focused, and career-connected learning for hawaii's youth, and intensive, semester long professional development programming for their teachers. Building on a decade of work in these areas, teaching change now proposes the pilina kaiaulu (community relationship) program, an innovative two-year series of educational opportunities designed to foster biocultural learning into meaningful watershed educational experiences (mwees) for teachers and their students. This program will be a model for the design of aina-based curricula aligned with next generation science standards (ngss) and the hawaii department of education's NA hopena AO framework. This program will provide: (1) learning and professional development that is grounded in the places where teachers and studen