It’s Fundraising Season!

Multiple Ways to Donate We are gearing up our end-of-the-year fundraising campaign by focusing on “Giving Tuesday” on November 30, 2021. Here are some possible ways to help us with that campaign. There are many ways to donate to Growing Our Own Teachers On Kauai. First, consider Growing Our Own Teachers On Kauai for your Required Minimum Distribution. If you …

Online Student Application Ready!

Just in time for the Spring 2021 applications, we have added a completely online Student Teacher Grant Application! Now, you can enter all the required information and upload your files directly to our database. For those of you who prefer to email or mail your applications to us, we have kept those links on the same page below the online …

Donors Choose: Mrs. Kan-Souza’s Classroom

While school is largely being held online via meeting applications, teachers and students still need supplies to help foster learning.  Mrs. Kan-Souza, a former GOOTOK recipient, current board member¹, and a teacher at Wilcox Elementary needs your help! She is online every day with 50 students and her laptop is too old to handle the pressure. She often loses her …

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 …