Fight to Survive Life, Earth and Beyond: Ruth Silberstein at TEDxHonoluluED

Ruth Silberstein has served in the field of education for twenty years in private schools and twenty seven years in public schools in the State of Hawaii. Her experiences as a teacher in grades to 2 to 12, as an elementary vice-principal and principal, and complex area superintendent have broaden her perspectives of education and the complexity of the educational forces at work on the state, national and international levels. As a principal, the school transformed from the restructuring status to a school of good standing, unconditional. In order to keep the momentum of growth on-going while addressing global problems, the school then created its STEM process/program. It is here that the students began to drive the curriculum.

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