Our mission is to empower students through an individualized curriculum utilizing experiential learning. We provide a nurturing environment that encourages exploration, community involvement, and lifelong learning.
Our Keiki, Our Responsibility
Kuleana Education is a licensed, accredited, non-profit, kindergarten through eighth grade, private school located on the Big Island of Hawaii. Our teachers are dedicated to the overall development of your child. We work closely with each child and their family to ensure a top quality education. Our philosophy is to reach each child as an individual in order to help him or her grow intellectually, socially and emotionally.
Our school community inspires passion for lifelong learning, fosters social and emotional acuity, and develops the child's imaginative mind.
We are licensed by HCPS and accredited by WASC.
What is Kuleana?
Kuleana is one’s personal sense of responsibility. The person possessing Kuleana, believes in the strength of this value, and will be quick to say, “I accept my responsibilities, and I will be held accountable.” Kuleana speaks the workplace language of self-motivation, ownership, empowerment, and the personal transformation which can result. Effective delegation becomes about the sharing of Kuleana with others, recognizing where it rightfully belongs, or where it can facilitate hands on learning.
Kuleana can give us amazing clarity about what begins and ends with us as individuals. It will also give us a brutally honest clarity about our expectations of others: Are those expectations reasonable or not?
From Managing with Aloha (Chapter 10 preamble):
Kuleana is the value of responsibility. It drives self-motivation and self-reliance, for the desire to act comes from accepting our responsibility with deliberance and with diligence.
Responsibility seeks opportunity. Opportunity creates energy and excitement. Kuleana weaves empowerment and ownership into the opportunity that has been captured.
There is a transformation in Kuleana, one that comes from ho‘ohiki, keeping the promises you make to yourself.
Kuleana Education is a licensed, accredited, non-profit, kindergarten through eighth grade, private school located on the Big Island of Hawaii. Our teachers are dedicated to the overall development of your child. We work closely with each child and their family to ensure a top quality education. Our philosophy is to reach each child as an individual in order to help him or her grow intellectually, socially and emotionally.
Our school community inspires passion for lifelong learning, fosters social and emotional acuity, and develops the child's imaginative mind.
We are licensed by HCPS and accredited by WASC.
What is Kuleana?
Kuleana is one’s personal sense of responsibility. The person possessing Kuleana, believes in the strength of this value, and will be quick to say, “I accept my responsibilities, and I will be held accountable.” Kuleana speaks the workplace language of self-motivation, ownership, empowerment, and the personal transformation which can result. Effective delegation becomes about the sharing of Kuleana with others, recognizing where it rightfully belongs, or where it can facilitate hands on learning.
Kuleana can give us amazing clarity about what begins and ends with us as individuals. It will also give us a brutally honest clarity about our expectations of others: Are those expectations reasonable or not?
From Managing with Aloha (Chapter 10 preamble):
Kuleana is the value of responsibility. It drives self-motivation and self-reliance, for the desire to act comes from accepting our responsibility with deliberance and with diligence.
Responsibility seeks opportunity. Opportunity creates energy and excitement. Kuleana weaves empowerment and ownership into the opportunity that has been captured.
There is a transformation in Kuleana, one that comes from ho‘ohiki, keeping the promises you make to yourself.