Kohala Green School
2014-2015
Fall and Winter Schedule
Special Events – Family and Student workshops as announced through the One Island newsletter.
On Campus Classes start January 2015
Homeschool Fridays – 8:30am-2:30pm on the second and fourth Fridays.
Please arrive by 8:30am
Community-Based Activities
Selected Thursdays – Community Service Learning Field Work
hosted by One Island, 9am-noon
Selected Saturdays and Sundays: Family Fun Days and Field Trips
Green School / One Island Film Nights 6-8pm
School Calendar
Winter and Spring Session for Food Chain Game: January-June (11 classes, 66 hours)
All Students Award Day: June 11th
Kohala Green School Team
The Kohala Green School Lead Teacher is Marcy Montgomery, who also serves as the School’s Founder and Education Program Director.
Marcy has received training with the Hawai’i Island School Garden Network, Jane Goodall Institute, The Polynesian Voyaging Society, Susan Lehner and the Jean Michele Cousteau Ocean Futures Program, NOAA National Marine Sanctuaries, USC Catalina Island Center, The Butterfly Farm in Costa Rica, The Whidbey Island Institute outdoor education program, Pachamama Alliance ‘Awakening the Dreamer’, UC San Diego Green Building program, Rhode Island School of Design School of Architecture, GIS Mapping at the Santa Fe Indian School, UC Santa Barbara Public History (as a Rockefeller Fellow), and University of Minnesota Ethnobotany with Kat Harrison and Dennis McKenna. She has a B.A. in Art and Design, and undertook graduate work at UC Santa Barbara and the Rhode Island School of Design.
The Community Service Learning and Mentor Coordinator is Stephen Shrader, M.A., an Applied Behavioral Science and Curriculum Consultant. His graduate work was completed at Bastyr University through the Leadership Institute of Seattle (LIOS) and has taught at Western Washington University, convenes community workshops, and hopes to find folks to form a singing circle in North Kohala.
Mentors are being invited from marine science, geology, anthropology, the arts, music, and Hawaiian studies fields. Mentor Bios will be posted as confirmed.
Special Guest Instructors and Mentors – added as confirmed
- Garden of Wonder with Travis Dodson
- Papermaking with Susan O’Malley
- Indigenous Cultures with Mimi George
- Creativity in Education with Virginia Fortner
