Pacific Literacy Consortium
Our Mission
The Pacific Literacy Consortium (PLC) exists to build and align a network of strategic partnerships that collaboratively develop, implement, and evaluate innovative and evidence-based educational approaches designed to improve reading outcomes and life chances of children in Hawaiʻi.
Our History & Reach
PLC is a program of the Curriculum Research and Development Group, College of Education, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. PLC’s core work is grounded in a longstanding, successful partnership with the Hawaiʻi Department of Education. This partnership, sustained by multiple grants across two decades, was initially referred to as Pihana Nā Mamo, the name of PLC’s original grant. Since 2000, the efforts of this partnership were sustained and scaled by thirteen subsequent grants that resulted in systematic, coordinated services targeting teachers and students across 56 public schools in Hawaiʻi.
Point of Contact
Hugh Dunn, Ph.D.
Hugh Dunn is the Program Director of the Pacific Literacy Consortium, a program of the Curriculum Research and Development Group, College of Education, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. As a Principal Investigator and Project Director, Dunn has led federal- and private- funded projects that have collectively received more than $46 million. Dunn’s vast experience in the field of education includes serving as principal investigator for multiple federal and private grants, principal and vice-principal at local public schools, project director within the UHM College of Education, and Director of Early Learning Programs for the UH System Office. Dunn produces and hosts the Pacific Education Pulse podcast show, known as PEP Talk.
Dr. Hugh Dunn
PLC Program Director
Principal Investigator
- ‘Aha Lamakū ‘Oia‘i‘o (ALO)
- ʻAha Lamakū ʻOiaʻiʻo-Hoʻoikaika Aʻe (ALO-HA)
Partners / Advisors
- Dr. Joanna Christodoulou
- Brian Dote
- ʻIwalani Harris
- Erin Nishimura Horner
- Todd “Estria” Johnson
- Dr. Edward Kame‘ennui
- David Kusumoto
- Jennifer LaGarde
- Roger McKeague
- Ray Miner
- Dr. Malkeet Singh
- Kealoha Wong
- Denise Hayashi Yamaguchi
- Dr. Daniel Keahou Yamashiro