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Updated August 20, 2026

Current services and availability

Lokahi Connect currently offers online student learning for all ages, an open online Student Lab, and educator professional development by inquiry. Availability is confirmed individually.

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Student learning

Designed for students

Individualized online support is paced to make learning manageable and transferable.

  • For: learners of all ages
  • May include: literacy instruction, educational therapy, ADHD coaching, or academic support based on fit
  • Online sessions: 30 minutes for $75 or 50 minutes for $120
  • Optional initial plan: when appropriate, a comprehensive profile and written service plan is $425
  • Availability: confirmed individually; no placement or schedule is promised by this page

Limited financial assistance may be available through Lokahi Connect’s nonprofit financial-access program, depending on funding and capacity.

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Educator Professional Development

For Educators

Professional learning and coaching may be offered for teachers, reading specialists, special educators, and speech-language pathologists. The focus is how to mediate inquiry, not just how to deliver a script.

  • For: K–12 teachers, reading specialists, special educators, and speech-language pathologists
  • What may be included: professional learning, coaching, inquiry design, and implementation reflection
  • Location: ask about current in-person or remote formats
  • Availability: varies by scope and organizational capacity
  • Dates, duration, and fees: no public offering is currently listed
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Digital Resources

For students, families, and educators

The Lokahi WORD Project Student Lab is a free, web-based tool for structured word investigation. It includes read-aloud support, adjustable speech controls, and scaffolded activities that support learner-controlled pacing.

  • For: students, families, and educators
  • What it includes: browser-based investigations, read-aloud support, speech controls, and scaffolds
  • Location: online
  • Availability: open now in a web browser
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Service status last reviewed August 20, 2026. Contact Lokahi Connect before relying on a location, format, schedule, or opening.

Events and educator learning

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Lokahi Connect lists only confirmed public workshops, family sessions, and community events—not tentative dates.

Current status

No public events are currently listed

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What we measure

Progress is documented through multiple kinds of evidence

We look at student work, word-family transfer, standardized assessments where appropriate, session records, and educator implementation evidence. We publish individual case stories carefully: in de-identified form and with enough context to explain what was measured.

Measurement focus

Student work, explanations, selections, and completed investigations are bounded performance evidence. Inferences about current understanding require the task, supports, context, and plausible alternatives to be documented.

Student reasoningCan the learner explain what the word means, how it is built, and why its spelling makes sense?
TransferCan the learner apply the same reasoning to a new or related word?
ImplementationCan an educator use the routine accurately and consistently in practice?

Individual case stories are shared only with de-identification and enough methodological context to explain what was measured.

How investigation works

The Four Questions support flexible, recursive inquiry

At Lokahi Connect, these areas are revisited flexibly and recursively at the word level and across larger language structures. Entry point and movement depend on the word or larger construction under investigation, its context, learner observation, and purpose—not a mandatory sequence. The same investigative scaffold can move through phrases, clauses, sentences, prosody, and connected text as the inquiry requires.

Meaning in context
What does this word represent in this construction and context?
Structure
How is the word built from a base and any affixes?
Related words
Which words share a meaningful structural relationship?
Grapheme function
How do the graphemes function, including pronunciation evidence where relevant?
Transfer and reflection
Use evidence from the investigation in another word or context without treating one response as proof of understanding.
Where we work

Local roots, broader access

Lokahi Connect’s work is rooted in Bainbridge Island, Washington, and Maui, Hawaiʻi, with additional access through remote services and online tools. Program formats and availability vary; contact us for current information.

Location

Bainbridge Island, Washington

Location

Maui, Hawaiʻi

Access

Remote and online access

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