Where We Work

Programs that build literacy through meaning and structure

From direct student support to educator learning and open-access tools, Lokahi Connect meets learners where they are and helps them build transferable language reasoning.

Three Ways We Serve

From direct student services to educator learning and digital resources, Lokahi Connect supports learners, families, and educators.

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Direct Student Services

For Students

Individualized, Lokahi WORD Project literacy instruction for K-12 students and adult learners. Sessions are structured, inquiry-based, and paced to support transfer rather than memorization.

Who we serve: Students with dyslexia and other language-based learning differences, students who need more coherent spelling instruction, and learners who benefit from explicit, structure-based teaching.

Educator Professional Development

For Educators

Professional learning and coaching for teachers, reading specialists, special educators, and speech-language pathologists. We focus on how to mediate inquiry, not just how to deliver a script.

Who we serve: K-12 teachers, reading specialists, special educators, and SLPs.

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.

Who can use it: Students, families, and educators.

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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.

Progress is interpreted through the learner’s reasoning, transfer to related words, and evidence that instructional routines are being used accurately and consistently.

Student reasoning1Can the learner explain what the word means, how it is built, and why its spelling makes sense?
Transfer2Can the learner apply the same reasoning to a new or related word?
Implementation3Can 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.

A session follows a stable conceptual order

1
Meaning in context
Encounter the word in purposeful context.
2
Structure
Identify the base and any affixes.
3
Grapheme function
Ask what the spelling is doing in this word or family.
4
Phonology
Analyze pronunciation once the structure is visible.
5
Transfer
Apply the reasoning to a new or related word.

Local roots, broader access

Lokahi Connect is based in Bainbridge Island, Washington. Direct services and educator learning may be offered locally and remotely, and the Student Lab is available online as a free web-based tool.

Home base

Bainbridge Island, WA

Remote access

Services may be offered remotely, depending on program design and capacity.

Online tools

The Student Lab is web-based and broadly accessible online.

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