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)...
by Hugh Dunn | Dec 1, 2015 | News and Events
PLC partners with the Institute for Native Pacific Education and Culture (INPEACE) to pilot-test the Preschool Early Literacy Indicator (PELI) at INPEACE Keiki Steps sites on the leeward coast of ʻOahu. The PELI is a storybook-embedded assessment of essential...
by Hugh Dunn | Sep 25, 2015 | News and Events
On September 24, 2015, PLC convened a professional development session at Pearl Country Club for 21 participants comprising teachers from seven elementary schools and higher education faculty from the University of Hawaii, College of Education and Chaminade...
by Hugh Dunn | Sep 1, 2015 | News and Events
Education Northwest conducted a quasi-experimental study focused on the effects of PLC’s Piha Pono interventions in all 10 of its project elementary schools, all which comprise larger percentages of Native Hawaiian students as well as students eligible for free or...
