Rochelle Pi‘ilani Hussey Ka‘aloa

Board Member

Ms. Ka'aloa is currently a faculty specialist at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Hawai‘inui‘kea School for Hawaiian Knowledge, Kamakaküokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies, where she works with interdisciplinary faculty on the Hui Konohiki project ( a natural resource management initiative) and coordinates technology and distance learning programs.  She has her Master’s degree in educational technology and varied teaching experiences throughout the UH system teaching distance learning courses at Leeward to teaching at UH-Mānoa in the Center for Hawaiian Studies and College of Education, Epiphany Elementary School, the Electronic Collaboration Educational Learning Laboratory, and Nä Pua No‘eau: The Center for Gifted and Talented Native Hawaiian Children.  Her teaching has been focused on the integration of technology into all content fields; specifically; the use of technology to enhance research, management of natural resources, and development of Hawaiian language curriculum. Her other areas of focus has included considerable experience writing, evaluating and working on federal grants, where she served as project coordinator on a Native Hawaiian teacher education and reform grant, instructional designer/trainer/web designer on a preparing teachers to use technology grant, technology consultant to Hawaiian language curriculum development grant, and recently technology trainer on a Title III higher education student retention and success grant.  Ka‘aloa has an established research agenda in the area of Native Hawaiian education, particularly in the area of access and use of technology by Native Hawaiian teachers and students and the development of culturally- responsive curriculum.  Her doctoral research focuses on the integration of technology through the use of learning objects in higher education specifically, distance learning, Hawaiian language animation curriculum, and technology enhanced 100-level course re-design.  She has presented her research at several local, national, and international conferences.