by Dr. Vid Raatior | Jun 5, 2014 | Blog, Education, Featured Article
As a parent and an educator, I was very excited to receive the news from Chiefess Kapiolani Elementary School that my daughter, Keala, was selected to receive 3 awards at the school’s End-of-the-Year celebration. One of these was the much coveted Legislative...
by Dr. Vid Raatior | May 20, 2014 | Blog
The 2014 World Indigenous Peoples Conference on Education (WiPC:E) is being held this week at Kapi’olani Community College on Oahu. As a native Micronesian raising a family on Hawaii Island, I try to be mindful of my place as a visitor in this society. What has...
by Dr. Vid Raatior | May 4, 2014 | Blog, Featured Article
I’m excited to be accepted into the doctoral program at the College of Education, University of Hawai’i at Manoa. Our orientation yesterday had a synergy likened to the buzz on my island in Chuuk when a new outrigger sailing canoe is launched on a maiden...
by Dr. Vid Raatior | Nov 15, 2013 | Blog, Education, Featured Article
Teach for Micronesia (TFM) is being developed as an independent, non-profit organization with the mission of ending education inequity in the Pacific Island nation of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM). Modeled after the highly successful Teach for America...
by Dr. Vid Raatior | Oct 2, 2013 | Blog, Featured Article, Social Justice
Fr. David Ciancimino, SJ, the New York Jesuit Provincial recently responded to our petition on change.org to keep Fr. Francis X. Hezel, SJ, in Micronesia where he has done so much work and continues to do so. His public response which is published on The Fourth Branch...
by Dr. Vid Raatior | Sep 20, 2013 | Blog, Social Justice
We have launched an online petition on change.org addressed to the leaders of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in Micronesia, New York Province, and the world on behalf of Fr. Francis X. Hezel, SJ., a Jesuit priest who has lived and faithfully served the people of...
