Last month, Growing Our Own Teachers on Kauai held its first online fundraising event. We honored all our current teachers for National Teacher Appreciation Day. It takes special people to be called into the the teaching profession and we want to recognize those who have become teachers as well as those who are working to become teachers. We are …
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Fall Applications due July 31
As the 2020/21 school year winds down, we are headed into a summer of less restrictions and more ability to enjoy the lovely weather our island is known for. Even though summer is for vacations and staycations, if you are a student in a teacher training program and you plan to do your student teaching semester in the Fall of …
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 …
Are You Ready for Your Student Teaching Semester?
You’re not ready until you apply for a grant from Growing Our Own Teachers on Kauai! We offer one-time grants to financially assist students in their final teaching semester! Our applications are on our website and ready to go when you are. The deadline for the Spring of 2021 semester is November 30, 2020. Please be sure to have all …
Introducing “Seedlings”
As part of our strategy to become more visible in our community, we have established our first-ever newsletter: Seedlings. We have included the copy below. We hope you enjoy it! https://mailchi.mp/82a25327e7fa/summer-seedlings-2020 By the way, don’t forget the deadline for the 2021 Spring Student Teaching semester is November 30, 2020. It seems like a long way off, but if you or …
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 …