Kona Green School
Fall 2014 – Winter 2015
Schedule
Special Weekend Events – see the One Island newsletter
On Campus Classes, 8:30am-2:30pm
Starting in January, first and third Fridays are the class days for West Hawaii home school students. Please arrive by 8:30.
Community-Based Activities Additional events – Community Service Learning Field Work in our neighborhood or with One Island in the community, Thursdays, 9am-noon. Selected Saturdays and Sundays: Family Fun Days and Field Trips. Green School / One Island Film Nights 6-8pm
School Calendar
Winter/Spring Session: Third Friday in January – June (11 classes)
Kona Green School Team
The Kona 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
- Papermaking with Susan O’Malley
- Indigenous Cultures with Mimi George
