by Hugh Dunn | Apr 6, 2017 | News and Events
PLC assembled 65 educators, comprising elementary school teachers and administrators (school-, district-, and state-level), to engage them in a high-interaction professional development session that introduced strategies for helping K to Grade 5 students acquire and...
by Hugh Dunn | Aug 30, 2016 | News and Events
PLC engaged the services of Dr. Ruth Kaminski, author of the Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills, to work with school teams on best practices for assessing children’s acquisition of early literacy skills.
by Hugh Dunn | Jun 6, 2016 | News and Events
The Pacific Literacy Consortium (PLC), an extramurally funded program within the College of Education, Curriculum Research & Development Group, has collaborated with the Hawaiʻi Department of Education (HIDOE), Office of Curriculum, Instruction and Student...
by Hugh Dunn | May 9, 2016 | News and Events
PLC convened 72 elementary school teachers for a professional development session on instructional strategies designed to improve children’s vocabulary and reading comprehension skills. The all day session was facilitated by Dr. Ed Kame`enui, one of the nation’s...
by Hugh Dunn | Feb 6, 2016 | News and Events
On Saturday, February 6, 2016, PLC convened 22 elementary school and preschool teachers in a hands-on professional development session on evidence-based reading strategies that align with and supplement the McGraw-Hill Reading Wonders, K-6 core reading...
by Hugh Dunn | Jan 21, 2016 | News and Events
On January 21 and 22, 2016, PLC convened the first two of a four-day series of workshops on Oʻahu, referred to as Building Foundational Reading Skills (BFRS), facilitated by Teach Well, Inc. Twenty-nine teachers from six schools (including one independent school)...
