by Dr. Vid Raatior | Nov 2, 2015 | Blog, Education, Featured Article, Youth
Our Navigating Success – 3rd Annual Pacific Islander Youth Empowerment conference for high school students of Pacific Island ethnicities was a complete success. What I started with our Marshallese Iakwe Club and a few colleagues from the Division of Student...
by Dr. Vid Raatior | Sep 14, 2015 | Blog, Education, Featured Article
I am blessed to be part of a consultancy team of doctoral students at the College of Education at UH Manoa who are working with several Hawaii-based Micronesian-serving clients on a project to study the feasibility of establishing a charter school focusing on...
by Dr. Vid Raatior | Jun 5, 2014 | Blog, Education, Featured Article
As a parent and an educator, I was very excited to receive the news from Chiefess Kapiolani Elementary School that my daughter, Keala, was selected to receive 3 awards at the school’s End-of-the-Year celebration. One of these was the much coveted Legislative...
by Dr. Vid Raatior | May 4, 2014 | Blog, Featured Article
I’m excited to be accepted into the doctoral program at the College of Education, University of Hawai’i at Manoa. Our orientation yesterday had a synergy likened to the buzz on my island in Chuuk when a new outrigger sailing canoe is launched on a maiden...
by Dr. Vid Raatior | Nov 15, 2013 | Blog, Education, Featured Article
Teach for Micronesia (TFM) is being developed as an independent, non-profit organization with the mission of ending education inequity in the Pacific Island nation of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM). Modeled after the highly successful Teach for America...
by Dr. Vid Raatior | Oct 2, 2013 | Blog, Featured Article, Social Justice
Fr. David Ciancimino, SJ, the New York Jesuit Provincial recently responded to our petition on change.org to keep Fr. Francis X. Hezel, SJ, in Micronesia where he has done so much work and continues to do so. His public response which is published on The Fourth Branch...
