Pure Manaʻo

Background: These final questions came out of an Indigenous Mixed Methods Convening held as a post conference workshop for the 50th Pacific Circle Consortium Conference, May 19-23, 2026 on the University of Hawaiʻi Mānoa campus. At the end of the day, these are the four questions to chew before we were sent home to ponder further.  Source: For question 1, we were given the appendix from the Moanaroa Pacific Research Guidelines, a publication out of the Auckland University of Technology (AUT) Moanaroa Pacific Research Network:  https://moanaroa.aut.ac.nz/pacific-research-guidelines As our own collective, we were just given the appendix:  Moanaroa Pacific Research Guidelines_Appendix The question and my thinking-out-loud sense-making (a dialogic with myself) are based on Table 1, "Examples of Pacific Methodologies," in the Appendix.  He Nīnau: What stands out to you in Moanaroa Pacific Research? He Manaʻo: Based on a quick glance and a few deeper dives -- • Tonga and S...

Source:  I donʻt know how to cite this. Just look for it on youtube. What is Sacred:  Jason Momoa talks about what is sacred in his own life, how he learns from his children, his mother, his wife, and how he creates the education that his children need. Connections to Current/Future Work: Aside from this being a beautiful man, let's really just talk about how we reach out to the lessons that students come with from their own ohana and honor that as sacred in our own curriculum.

John McCarthy writes about Igniting Student Engagement , all things worthy of being pinned in my Teaching 101 Pinterest, but I just wanted to focus on one of his concepts, "be real," and "Hawaiian-ize" it for our community of students. He talks about connecting skills and content to students' interests and really that is the key. Content shouldn't happen until the teacher has created a true relationship with the student first. Creating a relationship with each student could take two months, and what is wrong with that? Other skills, expectations, content can happen, but by getting to know the students by understanding what family knowledge they come to school with, by humbling yourself, even if you are the teacher with all your degrees, so that you can learn from the students is the highest priority for the new school year and the best way to motivate students. When you can connect your content and skills to the knowledge and skills and interests of the...