{"id":113105,"date":"2020-03-10T17:21:53","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T03:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=113105"},"modified":"2024-03-15T15:07:33","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T01:07:33","slug":"milken-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/03\/10\/milken-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa alumna wins \u2018Oscars\u2019 of teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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Miki Cacace moments after the surprise announcement that she is this year’s Milken Educator Award winner.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A 2007 University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Mānoa<\/a> graduate was surprised with a prestigious Milken Educator Award<\/a>, to celebrate and empower outstanding educators, in March. Miki Cacace<\/strong> is a math teacher at ʻEwa<\/span> Makai Middle School.<\/p>\n

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ʻEwa<\/span> Makai Middle School Principal Kim Saunders hugs Milken Educator Award winner Miki Cacace.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Cacace found out she was the recipient of the award considered the “Oscar Award of Teaching” in a ceremony attended by Gov. David Y. Ige, Superintendent Christina Kishimoto, past Milken Award winners, and community leaders. She is the only Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> recipient this year and one of 40 nationwide. <\/p>\n

Cacace was hailed for her teaching excellence, particularly for her popular coding class. The Leeward area educator receives a cash prize of $25,000.<\/p>\n

Last year\u2019s Milken Educator Award winner, Sara King<\/a><\/strong>, is also a Â鶹´«Ã½Mānoa graduate as are many of the past winners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Miki Cacace, a math teacher at ʻEwa Makai Middle School, is a Milken Educator Award winner for 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[90,679,142,933,9,1626],"class_list":["post-113105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-alumni","tag-alumni-recognition","tag-award","tag-teacher-education","tag-uh-manoa","tag-women-of-uh","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113105"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113118,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113105\/revisions\/113118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}