About me
Michael Ida is a National Board certified teacher and mathematics department chair at Kalani High School, where he has taught since 1996. He is the 2023 Hawaii State Teacher of the Year, a 2022 Presidential Awardee for Excellence in Science and Mathematics Teaching, and a 2023 to 2024 EdSurge Voices of Change Fellow. His writing on the thoughtful use of AI in classrooms has appeared in Edutopia. He presented "Both the Problem and the Solution: Keeping the H in AI" at the inaugural HIDOE AI Summit in 2024.
