Our Why

04/10/22 • 11 min

Imua Literacy: Moving Hawaiʻi forward with local solutions.

What is Imua Literacy?

Imua Literacy is a podcast dedicated to moving Hawaiʻi forward with local literacy solutions. Our hopes as writers of the Hawaii State Literacy Plan (2020) is to create a platform where we can highlight some of the obstacles in literacy from keiki to kūpuna that our families, schools, and communities face with local solutions.
This first episode is Our Why. Who are your hosts? Why are we doing this podcast? Why should you listen? We hope to answer those questions for you in today’s episode.

Your Hosts

Links for You!

The Hawaiʻi State Literacy Plan is designed in partnership with Executive Office on Early Learning, the Hawai‘i State Department of Education, the University of Hawai‘i System and numerous community organizations. You can find it here.

Episode 1 Music

Intro/Outro: “Together We Can” hedkandi
"Daily Beetle" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
“Easy Lemon” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

What is Imua Literacy?

Imua Literacy is a podcast dedicated to moving Hawaiʻi forward with local literacy solutions. Our hopes as writers of the Hawaii State Literacy Plan (2020) is to create a platform where we can highlight some of the obstacles in literacy from keiki to kūpuna that our families, schools, and communities face with local solutions.
This first episode is Our Why. Who are your hosts? Why are we doing this podcast? Why should you listen? We hope to answer those questions for you in today’s episode.

Your Hosts

Links for You!

The Hawaiʻi State Literacy Plan is designed in partnership with Executive Office on Early Learning, the Hawai‘i State Department of Education, the University of Hawai‘i System and numerous community organizations. You can find it here.

Episode 1 Music

Intro/Outro: “Together We Can” hedkandi
"Daily Beetle" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
“Easy Lemon” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Next Episode

Read To Me! The Why and How of Reading Out Loud

Research consistently shows that literacy development in early childhood plays a critical role in later language and academic success. In today's episode, we’ll speak to Nicki Brown and Kara Kusunoki from Read To Me International, a local literacy organization, to better understand how we can make reading with our keiki fun no matter what. They’ll also give us perspectives and tips anyone can apply in school, at home, and in the community.

Your Hosts

Links for You!

Check out Read To Me International’s Resources page, full of goodies to kickstart your read aloud journey. We’re big fans of their 16 Read Aloud tips!
The Hawaiʻi State Literacy Plan is designed in partnership with the Executive Office on Early Learning, the Hawai‘i State Department of Education, the University of Hawai‘i System and numerous community organizations. You can find it here.
Read to Me Conference 2022 - June 2, 2022

Episode 2 Music

Intro: “Together We Can” hedkandi
"Daily Beetle" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
“Easy Lemon” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/