Current and Ongoing Research Interests:
Racial, ethnic, and cultural consciousness
Indigenous cultures and language revival
Executive leadership of schools and nonprofit organizations
Case study methodology in the online classroom
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Community Leadership and Its Impact on Decreasing Eco-Tourism for the Hawaiian Monk Seal.
Kōina Leo: Leadership and the oral tradition in indigenous cultures: leading learners, ages 7-62, in `Olelo Hawai`i (Hawaiian language) instruction using Caleb Gattegno's The Silent Way® methodology
Ho`okuleana: Honu Watch. The impact of executive and board leadership in the preservation of an endangered species using a community management model. Organizational reinvention and renewal in a conservation and sustainable practices nonprofit organization on the Hawaiian islands Independence in an interdependent community:
Photographic Identification Protocol and Catalog of Hawaiian Green Sea Turtles (23152)
Publications:
McREL Insights: From Knowledge to Wisdom: Using Case Methodology to Develop Effective Leaders
Kōina Leo: Leading Learners in Ōlelo Hawai’i Using the Silent Way Methodology
Case based learning: Preparing adult learners to become thoughtful leaders
How data on the population dynamics of North Shore Maui's Hawaiian green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) through use of a Photographic Identification Protocol (PIP) can increase conservation and decrease eco-tourism's impact
Professional Bio:
Dr. Jane Schumacher serves the College of Doctoral Studies as Lead Faculty Area Chair - Education and works with both Staff and Associate Faculty. She has been actively involved in teaching organizational development and executive leadership for over forty-nine years. In her direct service to school districts, she served children as a teacher, principal, curriculum director, assistant superintendent, deputy superintendent, and consultant. Dr. Schumacher works as an organizational and executive leadership consultant on Maui and across Hawai`i. She consults with schools, nonprofit organizations, and businesses and assists their boards and executives leaders in organizational goal setting, strategic planning, board training, marketing, and human and financial resource development. Her special interest in race, ethnicity, and culturally relevant leadership. She challenges clients to examine their own assumptions about race, ethnicity, and culture as they begin bringing equity concepts to their own staff. She also serves as a Governing Board member for Hawai'i Technology Academy, a public charter school with campuses on 4 Hawaiian Islands. Dr. Schumacher is a Hawaiian studies cultural practitioner and studies Hawaiian language and hula and also volunteers as a Marine Naturalist working with Hawaiian Monk Seals and Hawaiian Green Sea Turtles on the North Shore of Maui.
Comments
This project is a collaboration between a university qualitative researcher, a turtle researcher, and two Italian marine biologists to create, implement, and evaluate the use of a photographic identification system to document the population of Hawaiian green sea turtles on the north shore of Maui. Shared leadership and the ability of each leader to select appropriate leadership skills with wide ranging community partners is critical as the catalog is created and managed.
This research project requires that each of the participating partners access and use specific leadership skills in order to create, utilize, and evaluate the catalog that will be developed. Community partnerships that require specific leadership strategies of the researchers are essential in this project. This type of work can be terratorial in nature and the collaboration across agencies and countries in the creation of this unique catalog reflects the abiltiy to collaborate across cultures and countries.