Chayanee Brooks
TEACHER FELLOW, AI TEACHER ADVISORY COUNCIL MEMBER
A Kaʻū-Keaʻau-Pāhoa Complex Area Teacher of the Year 2023, Chayanee Brooks has been teaching English Language Arts at Ka’u High and Pahala Elementary School for ten years. She is a National Board Certified teacher who has been recognized as a Hawaiʻi State Teacher Fellow and Pulitzer Center Teacher Fellow. She is currently a Ph.D. student in Neuroscience. With understanding of neuroplasticity, learning, and memory, Brooks has been embedding socratic seminars in her courses to cognitively engage and empower her students. She has given professional development training for teachers on how to use cogenerative, open-ended, and explorative dialogues through collaboration in order to generate authentic learning experiences. She is the author of numerous articles on assessment, feedback, and student voice. Her passion is advising her students in her journalism class to produce their own personal documentary stories that are aired on public television in Hawaiʻi.
