PUEO— capstone

I had the pleasure of meeting with Carl Ackerman, Director of PUEO, and Colleen Murakami, Educational Specialist— Service Learning/Critical Thinking for the Department of Education to discuss the possibility of creating a capstone experience for the PUEO students during the summer of 2011. One area we examined was trying to align the capstone experience with the Senior Project that will be required of all public school graduates starting in the 2010-11 school year. The areas the Senior Project can address are research, service-learning, and performance. Another exciting initiative Colleen mentioned is the Running Start program which would allow DOE students to gain college credit at community colleges. It will be exciting to explore how that program could also align with the capstone/Senior Project experience. I know there is a lot we at Punahou and CapSEEDS in particular can gain from seeing how the DOE lays out its requirements for the Senior Project. I look forward to many more enlightening conversations in the future.