July 18-21th | 10am-12:30pm | $250

1. Building A Community of Inquiry In this session participants will begin the process of creating an intellectually safe community of inquiry by creating a virtual Community Ball. A hallmark strategy of p4cHI, the Community Ball is used for building relationships among participants, facilitating dialogue, and mediating turn taking during inquiry.
2. Intellectual Safety In this session, participants will engage in activities used to introduce and develop the concept and understanding of Intellectual Safety.
3. A Philosopher’s Pedagogy Participants will be introduced to the Philosopher’s Pedagogy, including the six commitments made by successful p4cHI practitioners. This session will include multimedia presentations and the opportunity for participants to engage in a large group Plain Vanilla philosophical inquiry.
4. Plain Vanilla “Plain Vanilla” is the “flagship” philosophical inquiry framework of p4c Hawai‘i where participants engage with a stimulus, generate questions, vote on the question/wondering they want to pursue, using a set of assessment criteria to judge the progress of their community and inquiry.

Model School Visits

August 16-18th | 8am-4pm | $1000

Participants will visit local schools to experience p4c Hawaii in K-12 classrooms. This is an in person module only available to those who have completed the Intro to p4cHI module in 2022 or a previous year. Limited seats available.

Good Thinker's Tool Kit (GTTK)

August 22nd | 10am-12:30pm | $50

Participants will be provided with a broad overview of the p4c Hawaii Good Thinker's Toolkit (GTTK). They will learn about the historical and pedagogical contexts that led Dr. Thomas Jackson to develop the GTTK. Participants will then examine the GTTK in more depth. They will learn more about the individual tools and how to practically use them in order to help students to think more deeply.

Reflection and Assessment

August 30th | 10am-12pm | $50

Participants will be introduced to the many reflection and assessment tools used by p4c Hawaii educators and have an opportunity to discuss the challenges and opportunities of evaluating p4c Hawaii.

Practitioner Roundtable

September 10th | 10am-1pm | $75

Participants will learn about the ways that p4cHI pedagogy is being applied in different contexts and will have an opportunity to talk with p4c Hawaii teachers, researchers and other practitioners.

Practitioner Roundtable

September 24th | 10am-1pm | $75

Participants will learn about the ways that p4cHI pedagogy is being applied in different contexts and will have an opportunity to talk with p4c Hawaii teachers, researchers and other practitioners.