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 | Aug 19, 2014 | Blog, Education
The FSM Congress recently appropriated $20,000.00 to fund scholarships for students from the Northwest region of Chuuk State. This is by far the largest amount set aside to help students from the small and remote outer islands of Pattiw, Pafeng, and Namwonweito. But...
by Dr. Vid Raatior | Jun 5, 2014 | Blog, Youth
The other day, I interviewed Tracy Kaleikehaulani Nakanelua Poch as part of the Pacific Students Media team’s “What’s Our Story?” project to combat negative stereotypes and misinformation about Pacific Islanders in Hawaii. Tracy has been in the...
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 20, 2014 | Blog
The 2014 World Indigenous Peoples Conference on Education (WiPC:E) is being held this week at Kapi’olani Community College on Oahu. As a native Micronesian raising a family on Hawaii Island, I try to be mindful of my place as a visitor in this society. What has...
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 22, 2013 | Web Design, Youth
Project: SHIP – HOOPS Type: Nonprofit Location: Chuuk, FSM URL: www.ship-hoops.org This is a project that is near and dear to my heart as it supports the SHIP-HOOPS non-profit organization that was co-founded and led by the late Keitani Graham. Kei, as he was...
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 12, 2013 | Web Design
Project: Chris Lang, MFT Type: Business Location: Santa Cruz, CA URL: www.chrislangmft.com This website is for Chris Lang, MFT, a newly licensed marriage and family therapist in Santa Cruz, CA., who wanted a website to match her new private practice. The design began...
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...
