Dagan Bernstein

Creative Educator

Dagan currently works as the K-8 Capstone Coordinator at Hawaiʻi Preparatory Academy in Waimea on Hawaiʻi Island with additional experience in music, digital media, and mathematics instruction. A strong believer in developing student agency and supporting skills for a “future curriculum”, he is an advocate for using design, futures, and music thinking to support productive collaboration among educators. Dagan is also a musician who loves writing, recording, and performing at farmer’s markets and coffee shops throughout Hawai’i Island.

Dagan holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Linguistics from the University of Oregon and a Master’s Degree in Education Entrepreneurship from Oulu University in Finland. He engages in service to other educators through work as a leadership team member of the National Capstone Consortium as well as sitting on the board of the Hawaiʻi Society for Technology in Education (HSTE).