What is TeleSchool?
The Teleschool Branch is part of the Hawaii Department of Education’s Office of Curriculum, Instruction and Student Support (OCISS). It is primarily responsible for the acquisition and distribution of educational video programs, creation of video programs in support of the Department of Education, duplication of videotapes, management of the DOE statewide video conferencing system, and transmission of educational video programming over cable and broadcast channels. People often confuse Teleschool with other departments and agencies such as Olelo and Hawaii Public Television because the Hawaii Department of Education does not have its own TV channel to transmit over. Teleschool works in partnership with other organizations such as Olelo the Corporation for Community Television, Akaku, Na Leo O Hawaii, Hoike, UH at Manoa and HPTV, Hawaii Public Television to transmit DOE video programming. Many times people watching DOE programming on one of these channels believe that Teleschool is part