Fall 2022 Applications Deadline Looming

The deadline for Fall 2022 Student Teaching Grant Applications is July 31, 2022. Because it’s in the middle of summer and your resources may be difficult to reach, this is a friendly reminder.  If you are entering your final student teaching semester this fall, you must have your completed application (including all supporting documents) to us by July 31, 2022.  …

Servco Grant Award – 2019

Growing Our Own Teachers on Kauai is honored to have been nominated and awarded a Servco Grant of $20,000!  Servco received almost 5,000 nominations for more than 550 organizations. Out of those nominees, 40 were chosen to be reviewed by their employees who then selected the final 19 award recipients. In honor of their 100th anniversary, Servco decided to celebrate …

Flex Grant Award!

Growing Our Own Teachers on Kauai is pleased to announce that we were recently awarded a FLEX Grant from Hawaii Community Foundation (HCF) through the Robert Emens Black Fund. We are grateful for the award and thank all involved. We are in the process of re-evaluating our purpose and goals and preparing a strategic plan for the coming years. We …

OCDE Project GLAD® NTC

Our own board member and a 2014 GOOTOK Award recipient, Monique Kan-Souza, was one of 18 dedicated professionals from various complex areas on Kauai, Oahu, Hawaii and Maui who successfully completed the Cohort 7 2017-2018 Targeted Learning Cycle Series earning 9 PD Credits, and was featured in the August 2018 OCDE Project GLAD Newsletter.  It showed her perseverance and commitment to professional …

2018-2019 Application Now Available

Aloha! We have updated our application this year to make it more in line with what we need to determine the financial need of our applicants. We invite all teacher candidates entering their student teaching semester in the Spring of 2019 to apply. Deadline is November 30, 2018.  Please click here to download the current application. If you have any …