 Aloha, and welcome to Business in Hawaii with Reg Baker. We broadcast live every Thursday from 2 to 2.30, from the downtown studios of Think Tech Hawaii and the Pioneer Plaza. We are a show that focuses on success stories in Hawaii. We have all heard the challenges. We've heard that there is an environment here in Hawaii that may not be all that business-friendly. But there are success stories. There are companies and individuals that have figured out how to make it work and they come on the show and share their secrets with us. We also have on occasion people to come on and talk about their organizations that help support businesses or get people prepared to engage in business. And today we have Shane Greenland who is the principal of the Academy of Business out in Campbell High School. And he's here today to talk a little bit about that Academy and there's been a lot of changes out there that I'm not familiar with that he's gonna educate me and hopefully you on. Shane welcome to the show. Thank you Reg, thanks for having me. Now you've been in Hawaii for a while? I've been here about 10 years now. 10 years and what brought you to Hawaii? My wife is from here so we were originally teaching and I was teaching and coaching in Las Vegas. Basically living the dream and you know the Ninth Island but she wanted to come back be closer to home so we decided to move back here. Applied for some jobs first teaching job was at McKinley High School. So I spent some years at McKinley, got tutored by a great man there Mr. Neil Takamori, athletic wise, education wise got to learn what the island is about and and see the change. We'd always come over on vacations and look at things but living here after I was at McKinley I went to Pearl City for a year and then I've now been at Campbell High School as an administrator for the last four years. Now for those that don't exactly know where Campbell High School is where is it located? We're in Eva Beach out near Kapolei right next to the the second city or what now is becoming the you know the major city but yeah Eva Beach you know 9 6 7 0 6 our kids take pride in it our alumni and and everybody that lives out there they they love the community I live in the community and it's really a truly a great place to be. Well it has been and I think continues to be one of the fastest growing areas in the state. I just was reading that the sales for homes were up like 16 percent recently. Very much so that there's so much growth that Campbell is actually the largest high school on the island actually in Hawaii we have 3200 students we're continuing it's continuing getting larger the Ho'apili project that's going up the road you know is going to bring in another 15,000 homes so the area is bursting at the seams out there. So you got room for expansion? We just actually got approved last legislative session we're going to be building a $39 million building it's going to be 27 classrooms three stories and it's going to open 2019 2020 school year but the day it opens we're already going to be at capacity based on projection enrollment so we also have 44 portables on our campus so we're we're fine in every area of land we can put classrooms and we're putting them in. You know it gives me a little bit of a flashback as I had lived in Vegas for a little bit myself and at one point during the heyday they were building one school a month. It's very big I think was the fifth largest school district in the nation and it was growing so fast and it until the the boom hit like 2008 you know and then you know home prices went down but it was skyrocketing for a while. And it sounds like you've got a similar type of you know environment out there where the kids are just coming in you can't build a school fast enough to accommodate them all but you've got an interesting concept out there that I'm really fascinated with it's an academy type model that you're using for the entire school. Yeah so a lot of people may have heard you know like why Paul who they get a lot of press with what they're doing and their principal Keith Hayashi he's done a great job with it and Campbell is now we had started a few years ago with some basic academies but now we've gone wall-to-wall with Academy so all of our ninth grade structure is one Academy it's called the freshman freshman success Academy so all ninth graders transition into it they talk about careers try to get a focus more on what they think they want to do long term so that we can better focus on it in grades 10 through 12 and then in that 10 through 12th grade model we now break it up into other academies where they'll have a what used to be our vice principles we're now called principles over the Academy we've breaking it up into five different academies with so many different pathways so just in mind alone we have business agricultural sciences and then we have our international baccalaureate program that goes into mine too so we have a wide range other academies we have digital creative media we have culinary we have in all the public human services the nursing we're going to look at EMT service providers we really try to work with what is the going trends and the going needs on the island and how do we best prepare our students to be able to go in and take jobs with that so we work a lot like with Peter Quigley at UH Manoa trying to look at the different business sectors and then based on the students interest how do we organize and formulate our academies and then teach to those specific things so that kids are interested in what they're doing our building construction automotive program you know our steam Academy engineers technology everything is getting so much bigger based on on what the needs of the kids are and what those interests are but what can we get them a career in we just want to find jobs we want to develop people who can get careers but you know that's very excited and I definitely want to hear more about that but you know I want to loop back for just a second this seems to be a very big a lot of moving parts how did you end up I mean did you set out in life to do this or how did you end up in your career doing something this large and complex I've just always loved working with kids I mean when I originally got into education I actually just wanted to coach I didn't want to teach but they basically told me well you need to teach so that you can coach so I got into it you know and I just really loved working with kids I loved you know trying to go out and get them jobs or even create things to get them jobs and then even in the classroom you know I started teaching PE health weight training drivers it just you get to talk to kids and you really get to build relationships and connections and all kids all kids want to be successful they all want help but all kids have a story and it just it just really started driving me on really what my passion was and what I wanted to do because I've always thought well I need to get out of education if I really want to go make money and then as you start talking to other business people and and you have different mentors and it's it's not always about making more money but it's being happy in what you do and enjoying it and love what you do and I loved working with kids I love teaching I loved it you know being in the classroom and I just it kind of just moved me forward and I had a administrator one time say what why don't you think about getting into administration and I like boy I got enough headaches already but once you get into it you see the impact that you can have and the people that you meet and what you can do when you work well as a team with other administrators then you can really make a huge impact and I just really love working with people I love working with adults I'm I'm so low keyed but I love to get out I don't I don't accept no for an answer I'll go and find ways to get it if we need money I'm go find money if I need you know resources I'm gonna go find them but it you can't stop when it's when it's for kids I mean how do you not try and get them to pursue and have the passion and the drive to go be successful but it sounds like you set a pretty good example for the kids to follow I try to I just always learn it be the first one to work be the last one you know to leave make sure everything's fine I have teachers that'll call me on the weekends or on holidays hey can I get in and work how do you tell them no when people want to go above and beyond what they're doing don't set limitations you find reasons to do it and they understand when I say no you know I can't do it usually if I'm spending time with my family but other than that you find ways to make things happen and and the kids love it and you know you get the respect of the teachers and different groups but it's it's the passion it's the drive I mean if you love what you're doing it's not a job so if there was somebody that was going into you know I guess attending college now want to be a teacher and they're they're listening to what you're doing right now what advice would you give them how could they take their career and get whatever credentials teaching credentials or licenses that they need and end up being this holistic type of coach or mentor for these these kids in school doing what you're doing you know I think you just got to find your niche get into the classroom and and talk to kids you know find out what's important to them take that vested time and that interest and then find out what you truly love I mean teach the subjects that you're passionate about and even if you're not I mean you know educate yourself come across that you know you really care and you want to make a difference and and before you know it that these kids they feel like your kids you know and you really care about them you're finding ways to get them a snack when they need a snack or you know put shoes on them but it's a great profession you know everybody always talks about you know teachers don't make enough which I mean yeah you know you always wish you know you can make more money you wish you could do things but you know when you look at the scope of it I mean teachers have such care and such passion and that they spend money out of their own pockets but at the same time they get so much reward when you see a kid graduate and you see him go on and then they go do things and they're successful and then they come back and as you know they want to tell you hey mr. mr. a miss you know you know I did this or I got this I finally graduate I mean there's always that tie you know and that's one of the biggest things that even the bigger tie in Hawaii is just everybody the first question you hear from everybody when you get here's hey what school you grad from you know so mean it high school is a very commonality you know common spoke with everything it ties communities together and kids and everybody here they really take pride in that and it's really actually something that's enjoyable so we want our kids to feel like they have that that home grown aspect and that feeling from what we do at Campbell but whatever profession you go into but especially teaching and you can just really make a huge difference in an impact on a kid's life you don't realize the mentor or you know the role model that you are until you feel like they're getting affected well and it's something that you experience every day and every day that you're either in the school or in the classroom I mean you've got that opportunity to meet and greet and motivate kids in their daily lives yeah especially when you live right in the community when you go to the grocery store and it's like hey Mr. Green and I can talk to you for one minute but you just have ties you're not going to break those and you know and that there's going to be days when when people are maybe upset with you and there's going to be days when they just truly love you but that's just part of the job but I mean it is it's just an everyday grind and you know nobody goes into the profession thinking you know I don't like kids I mean they really want to you know make a difference it's it's giving them the tools and resources to really do what they want to do and strive for success that's got to be a big part of what you do is you know you've got a bunch of teachers working for you as well or with you and you've got to make sure that they've got the tools and the resources to be able to do what they want to do or should be doing with the kids yeah and and that's one of the main reasons why I'm here it we're always looking for partners always looking for resources always trying to find money I mean it's not you know you don't ever want to have the haves and have nots but how do you really get and how do you provide what you think is best for kids so that you can set them up for success how you can tie the community in and bring them back and and have you know special gatherings and rituals and traditions because it's really the memories that kids you know kids make while they're in high school that they really go member forever but the greatest impact that you can have is going to be so detrimental in the focus and the way they're going to be because they all we want them all to be great moms and dads one day you know aunties uncles brothers sisters but right now when they're in high school we want them to be the best son or daughter they can be how do we teach them those you know that the ethics and the values that they respect rapport how do you be that best person and we really want that to come across but we do that as a you know holistic school model because we want our teachers to model that as well but you know and that's good in a holistic way for the home environment and in the school environment but the businesses also need that too and so having you know some appreciation for coming to work on time being doing your best being properly dressed that sort of thing you know so some of that lessons that they learn carry over into their careers later yeah and that's one of our big focuses that we're going to concentrate on Campbell right now is is really working with our business partners and find out those soft skills what those kids need and you know being able to be a critical thinker and you know and how do you make a person feel like a million dollars those social skills that they could they can just it just becomes reactionary I mean we want them to make people feel so good how do you get things in on time be on time you know not to no call no shows you know I don't want to do this or I mean just really put in force that best effort till you get the best product and then we want those kids so that they can go out and compete with jobs and be able to get everything that they can get and go out and find the career and have the passion to become what they want but yeah the soft skills and really working on what's going to set you apart from everybody else is going to be a real big focus of what we're going to do in our academies well we're gonna have to take a short break here and what what I'd like to be able to do when we come back from the break is to dive into a little bit the details of the academy itself and and what those different academies are of course I would like to focus on the business part of it and get a feel for what the classes are like what the structure is like and how it all kind of flows so we'll get into that in the second half okay sounds great all right this is business in Hawaii with Reg Baker we're here today with Shane Greenland we're talking about Campbell High School and the business academy that they have out there as well as some other academies we're going to take a short 60 second break and we'll be right back hey a lot standing energy man here on think tech Hawaii where community matters this is the place to come to 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them or at least the business one that I'm primarily interested in can you share with us a little bit on how that set up and how that works and so our business academy the way we're structuring it this year is we offer some basic classes so we have like our business core which is like introduction to business we also have accounting finance marketing and then the economics part of it but some of the things that we're looking at trying to do with within our business department is actually bring other small businesses on campus so we're trying to open up maybe some kiosks we thought about maybe trying to partner with like a Starbucks could we open up a mini little coffee stand and see if kids wanted to buy coffees but we want to generate businesses that are going to be organized and run by students because we want students to kind of have to go through the structure of building business plan develop model you know look at things go out try see if it does it work what doesn't work okay how do you come back how do you refine it make changes we've been trying to work with maybe Adidas and open up an apparel store on our on our campus you know being able to partner with somebody big but have an identity you know with you know Campbell names but it's with Adidas and get it within the community that there's such a great need with you know the marketing and the branding of your campus that we figure why not make that a business model at our school and how do you best promote Campbell high school because you know of course in our minds we think Campbell high school that you know the best high school in the state so how do we best get that message out there how do we make our campus look and have that college feel and and our students they've come up we you know we've done sex surveys and stuff and it's how do we come up with branding how do we change that message in the marketing but also how do you change the feel of what perception of you know Campbell and Eva Beach is so our kids really want to tackle a lot of those things you know we've talked about partnering up and maybe bringing a bank in the in on the campus some of the other high schools on the island have brought the banking in looking at things how do we best support that is is that you know something that would be great for our campus I know they had it at one time before and one of the problems was it was only for deposit only people couldn't get their money out and it's like oh wait a minute that's that's the perfect model for a bank but you know everybody wants their money so I mean we was talking to one of our banking partners he's like well why don't you just put an ATM on a high school campus you know if we could bring in a portable ATM and put it where you could lock them up people could get their money you have special events people don't have to leave and you know the light bulb goes on it's like how why never we think about that before I mean that that's a great idea because that would help us even like when we do registration or parents comm is like no have to run nowhere he can hurry and go get cash and pay it was just a win-win model lunch money lunch money I mean no matter what a kid needed they out they would always have access to it parents have access so we're really looking at you know how we can really change a lot of the things we did but make it more real life you know even like within our like our nursing academy they're gonna build a like a hospital many hospital rooms with a couple beds that so they can go in and train our auto department we've had a business partner that wants to come in and do a diesel mechanic you know shops I mean all within all of these it still functions around that business model and business structure so our kids are actually gonna be intertwined and trying to get into like the project based learning of it how do we intertwine and work with people outside of our academy create that business model other students from other academies are focusing in their pathway but our our business students are still focused on the model in which they want to run you know our campus we have an agricultural science that does a lot with that the horticulture and vegetables Alan Wong comes in gets led us from Campbell high school puts it on his menu says Campbell high school we've had a long working relationship with him so I mean we're just really finding or looking at ways on how do we make life the the education of our students more real life and applicable to that the skills and and and you know dispositions and attributes that they're gonna need so that they can be successful when they leave Campbell high school so that they can have a career we don't want them to just go find a job we want them to have a career with a livable wage so that they can be happy with what they're doing you know part some of what you are just describing made me remember that at one point I was a chairman of junior achievement for the state of Hawaii and we were given a presentation from junior achievement in San Diego and they actually have you're familiar with the food court they actually had a small downtown business location set up like a food court but it would be all these different businesses that would be set up that the students would actually go in and work in those little businesses and the other students in the school would come in and kind of wander around and and for an hour or so a day either before class or after class this would be open to the student body and they would be selling apparel they'd be selling school supplies they'd be selling maybe coffee or whatever and they would be running their own little shops in this area and it was all sponsored by junior achievement need need little concept and really made it seem very lifelike oh yeah but that's what actually what we would like to actually set up at Campbell High School so if there's any business partners out there that want come and set something up in Campbell hey if there's a will there's a way we want to bring things in we want you know real life learning we want kids to see what you know what it's gonna be like and you know really be successful and talking about junior achievement we after I talked with you before we contacted them that they're gonna come in or we're gonna get all students taken financial literacy we want our economics kid you know their students taking economics we want whatever they have a program for we want to also intertwine that with what we're doing because you can never get enough of anything and as long as you know kids they need to learn banking they need to learn how to write a check you know we had a meeting at our school this last Thursday and one of the students said you know I'm not really sure I know how to write a check I've always just used my bank card but I don't really balance it so how do we look at things to make things better and we just want to find ways we want to best prepare our students so when they leave and when they go and apply for a job or they do something you can say well that kid must be from Campbell well and that's a great brand recognition that you want to have and it makes them a lot more valuable yeah because if they can come in to a work environment with already some basic skills particularly the soft interpersonal ones and if they can come in and they're ready to go to work that's gonna put them head and shoulders above a lot of other people yeah and that's really you know our big focus is we want every kid to be every kid to be career ready but we want them to also be college capable you know so if a kid a lot of our students they'll tell us you know mr. I know I'm not sure I can go to college because I don't want to be a financial burden to my family but I think I might have to work when in talking to a lot of the business partners we've been associating with is like Shane let let them come do an internship with me if they have the skills I'll hire them I'll send them I'll pay for their college and now they can go they can work they're getting school but when they graduate they're not graduating with a degree they don't need and they're not gonna be you know 50 to a hundred thousand dollars in debt but if they can have those skills and we can go get them and they can excel in that internship they're gonna be well off our students that already can go take you know our dual credit classes at school where we seen the story about the girl at Waipahu that graduated with an associates before she got a college or a high school graduation that's the goal for every high school how do you set students up like that and those students that can fly let them fly those that you have to work with a little bit more it frees up that time so you can work with them but yeah and you've got the facilities out there to do that you've got the the leeward colleges out there right there's a four-year college yeah we're developing a great a great working relationship with UH West Oahu we've talked with UH Minoa although it's a little ways away leeward community college windward community college everybody is very susceptible to getting on board and doing what's best for kids and our goal and you know even like with the DOE now with like the connect to careers the new superintendent and our CAS that they're all looking at ways how do we best maximize potential of student learning with businesses post-secondary in high school and it's just it's a matter of like we talked earlier if you can get the right people at the table and get people talking the state of Hawaii could do great things because the three entities right there is going to be a life-long dream because you go to high school you go to college or you go work the rest of your life so those three right there gonna be gratefully impactful for what what that student success is gonna be so it's putting everybody at the table make some great decision partnering up and how do we do what's best for kids that's gonna be best for the rest of people on the island well it's gonna benefit the kids it's gonna benefit Hawaii it's a win-win for everybody now we've got a few minutes left and I did want to just ask you to briefly explain to us what the process is okay they come in at ninth grade they get an orientation and in tenth grade they learn about the different academies and in eleventh and twelfth grade they kind of focus on what they've chosen now that was my executive summary can you flesh that out a little bit yeah so the way we structured at Campbell High School is that the transition from eighth grade to ninth grade sometimes can be very difficult for kids in transitioning especially coming to Campbell where you know our ninth graders are now coming into a structure that's you know 3200 students so it's intimidating it's very intimidating so we have an academy which is called our freshman success academy it's run by by three great principles now and they oversee that transition and it's also that career exploration you know give them a taste and a feel of many of the different academies and varieties of what we're going to offer but it focuses them on just coming up make that transition ease into high school and start thinking about what is it that you want to do the rest of your life and then after the ninth grade in the grades 10 through 12 they focus more specific on the academy of what they feel their career is that they want to be the rest of their life and at Campbell if our academies may change because we're going to be focused on what is the student interest so in ninth grade they'll take an interest inventory and it'll talk about the type of careers that they that they feel most interested in and what does a kid want to do so we may change but it's also based on what the needs of the state are because our focus is we want to try and keep kids in Hawaii so in 10 through 12 they would pick one of those academies but after the 10th grade year we allow a student you know if he just made well I made a choice but I don't really like that now but I hear the great things they're doing in this academy or these guys are going to do this we allow that student to make that jump and pick a different academy because the overall goal of the academy program is to get them you know the information and that the soft skills and prepare them for the career they want to go into but they can still graduate on the normal timeline yes everything they still meet and actually with with the bail schedule at Campbell they can have most of their credits by the time they finish their 11th grade year and then our senior year we want our kids getting out and getting into internship so I've been going out and meet with a lot of businesses that are willing to take you know students from Campbell High School to go out and do interns so they can go see the real-life applicability of the job they're gonna choose and the businesses on Hawaii have been great you know I probably talked to two or three hundred businesses and not one of them have said no we don't want to help Campbell High School what kind of businesses are you looking for real quickly because we're about ready to wrap up but but you need businesses to come in and offer internship type programs or what what are your needs yes we're looking for anything so I mean as far as businesses if they're willing to look at like job shadowing you know students to come in and see what careers are like internships are great we want to get our seniors that have that the credits for graduation already we'd like to place them and if businesses like them we want them to you know if it possible we want them to hire them and but and how do they sign up and we're running out of time and I want to get this out there so how do they sign up so businesses they could go to Campbell High.org Campbell High.org that's your website yeah Campbell High.org and it basically if you scroll down on a little bit it had it shows all the academies the academy messages the mission the vision all the contact information or just call Campbell High School and ask for Shane Greenland and I'll put you where you need to go we'll come meet with you we'll talk about what we can do but we want businesses involved with Campbell we want to make things great well we'll have to have you come back on the show again and we'll put that request out there again and make sure everybody gets it and you know having an engagement is going to be an exciting thing to watch so looking forward to hearing back on that sounds great we love it thank you Shane this is business in Hawaii with Reg Baker we broadcast live every Thursday from 2 to 2 30 and we talk about interesting opportunities in Hawaii to help people and individuals and businesses be successful so have a great week we'll see you next week