He kau hou! He makahiki hou! It’s a new semester! It’s a new year!

Welcome to the 2013-2014 school year! I’m looking forward to meeting and working with the Senior class of 2014. I’m also very excited about debuting my new curriculum which I’ve been working on since last semester. Basically, it let’s the haumāna discover history on their own. We start off with a central historical question – one that is intriguing and can have more than one answer. I provide the primary documents and structure the flow of the class but the haumāna take it from there. They become the historians – reading, probing, asking questions, deriving plausible accounts. Hopefully they will be interested and engaged. For more information, see my syllabus on the page entitled No Ka Papa. I makahiki kula maikaʻi loa iā kākou! Let’s have a great school year!