Vision
Guided by aloha and ‘ohana, Kamaile students will navigate a life that is pono.
While grounded in all of our core values, we look to aloha (loosely translated as love) as the value that weaves all of the others together. Most of our school community views ‘ohana (or family) as the value most rooted throughout Kamaile. These values, along with the actual support of families, staff, community, and each other, are to be the guides by which Kamaile students find their way through their education and lives. Rather than pull students through our expectations for them or push them toward what we view as success, the Navigators’ Center aims to empower students so that they can navigate their education and lives on their own. Academic success and overall wellness are our desired ends, but ultimately we look for all students to find the course in life that for each of them is most pono (or just, right, and righteous).
Mission
The Navigators' Center is the piko of the Kamaile Academy 'ohana, the center of our school family. Students, staff, families, and community come together to support our students with aloha academically, physically, socially, and spiritually. Largely based on the community schools model, we work toward these goals through deep community partnerships, rich student activities, meaningful 'ohana programs, and our comprehensive health and wellness center.
Core Values
The guiding values of the Navigators’ Center were developed to align directly with the broader values of Kamaile Academy. During the summer of 2012, the Navigators’ Center led an initiative to revisit the core values of the school and explore how these values could play a primary role in driving the education students receive at Kamaile. The Center organized and facilitated focus groups with students, family members, school leadership, faculty, and community partners to draft and adopt a Graduate Profile that defines the expectations of all students who seek to earn a high school diploma from Kamaile Academy. Throughout this process, it was clear that the core values would be a foundation to drive all of our efforts at Kamaile, from day-to-day instruction in the classroom to annual program planning in the Navigators’ Center.
Aloha (love)
'Ohana (family)
Olakino Maika'i (healthful living)
'Imi 'Ike (to seek knowledge)
Laulima (cooperation)
Ha'aheo (pride)
Hō‘ihi (respect) & Na'auao (a deep sense of enlightened knowledge and justice)
Kuleana (to find and fulfill your responsibility)