Paciic Educational Research Journal 43 2012, Vol. 14, No. 1 pp. 43–66 Strengths and Resources of Micronesian Students in a Hawai`i Middle School Sandra M. Kaneshiro and Rhonda S. Black University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa his qualitative study examined strengths and resources of four middle school Micronesian students who had been considered/referred for or who were found eligible for special education services. Two common strengths of all four students were family cooperation and resilience. Individual strengths included being calm, riendly, having self-conidence, and having pride in one’s cultural heritage. Resources included family members and church communities. he participants talked about the importance of having a relationship with teachers at school. Results are then discussed in terms of Bronfenbrenner’s Bioecological heory (Bronfenbrenner & Morris, 1998) in which the themes of culture, relationships, transitions, and cooperation overlap.