Thursday, April 26, 2007

Teaching Through Hula

Hula Dancing in Gym Class
Aired on KQED's Pacific Time, April 26, 2007
http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R704261830/c

At the Laboratory School, a charter school in Honolulu run by the University of Hawaii's College of Education, hula and other arts classes are as important as academics. Ninth grade students take off their flip flops and practice hula in their school's cafeteria for more than 40 minutes each day.