Kishimoto will face a major challenge in adapting to Hawaii culture. It's a natural response to come in and see all the provincial attitudes running through local practice, and immediately think you're going to show these people how it's done. That has never worked, although countless imported experts have tried. Even as a highly qualified educator and administrator, she will have to approach the job with a sense of humility and a desire to learn. Otherwise, she will find the entire entrenched and sclerotic DOE apparatus aligned against her, and things will end badly.