by Hugh Dunn | Sep 26, 2018 | News and Events
On September 26, 2018, PLC held a Book Festival at the Nānākuli Boys & Girls Club, NFL Youth Education Program. By means of these literacy outreaches, PLC engages publishers and community partners to increase children’s access to books and give children the...
by Hugh Dunn | Jun 25, 2018 | News and Events
PLC partnered with Hawaii Department of Education (HIDOE), Learning Support Section to deliver three professional development sessions supporting the implementation of the Enhance Core Reading Instruction model (ECRI) developed by the Center on Teaching & Learning...
by Hugh Dunn | Jan 13, 2018 | News and Events
PLC Director PLC’s PI (Dr. Hugh Dunn) and cross-agency partners (Dr. Malkeet Singh and Dr. April Burke) co-authored the paper, Revealing the Variation in Performance of Hawaii’s Asian Pacific Islander Subgroups on the English Language Arts Smarter Balanced Assessment:...
by Hugh Dunn | Dec 20, 2017 | News and Events
Hugh Dunn met with officials from the Republic of the Marshall Islands (left to right: Anjojo Kabua [Deputy Director of Kwajalein Atoll Development Agency], Hugh Dunn [PLC Program Director; Principal Investigator of Mohala I Ke Ao project], Jelton Anjain [Assistant...
by Hugh Dunn | Sep 25, 2017 | News and Events
PLC received a $2.3 million grant over three years from the U.S. Department of Education, Native Hawaiian Education Program, for its proposal Mohala I Ke Ao (MIKA): A culturally-responsive, multi-tiered beginning reading support system for schools and communities with...
by Hugh Dunn | Aug 21, 2017 | News and Events
PLC engaged the services of Dr. Ruth Kaminski (author of the Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills [DIBELS]) to help facilitate school-team discussions around the use of student-, classroom-, and school-level data collected no less than three-times a year...
