On April 26, 2023, in the Honouliuli Middle School library, the Pacific Literacy Consortium’s production crew filmed the #808Reads 2023 Summer Reading Challenge Launch Party promotional video. PLC produced this video in partnership with the Hawai‘i Department of...

From February 1, 2023 to April 25, 2023, PLC orchestrated and executed the second annual Sparx Music Mentor Entrepreneurship program (MME). This PLC initiative pairs middle and high school students from Kaʻū-Keaʻau-Pāhoa Complex Area with accomplished performing...

Convening the 2023 KKP Education Summit is one of PLC's ‘Aha Lamaku ‘Oia‘i‘o project (ALO) professional development activities. This year's summit assembled educational thought leaders from the public and private sector to engage with KKP educators in large and small...

Barnes & Noble Ala Moana invited Hugh Dunn and Lilette Subedi to share their co-authored book, Kaha‘i’s Journey. The story is an expression of Dunn's and Subedi's collective experiences, insights, and research. They had a wonderful time reading passages from the...

PLC partnered with the Hawai‘i Department of Education's School Library Media Services to deliver major components of the 2022 Statewide School Library Conference held at the Prince Hotel on August 1–2. The conference featured live in-person presentations by Donalyn...

For the third consecutive summer, PLC teamed with the HIDOE Library Media Services (LMS) to produce and launch the HIDOE’s statewide #808Reads summer challenge. PLC and LMS continue to leverage Beanstack’s technical platform, which is an online commercial application...

Vibrantly illustrated and content-rich, Kaha‘i’s Journey is a story-picture book that takes readers on a path of self-discovery. Within the genre of realistic fiction, the story addresses critical environmental issues and emphasizes the importance of developing...

The SPARX Hawai‘i Music Contest is one of several educational outreach components of the ‘Aha Lamakū ‘Oia‘i‘o (ALO) federal grant (Project No. S362A210096) administered by the Pacific Literacy Consortium, College of Education, University of Hawaii at Mānoa. The ALO...

PLC’s ‘Aha Lamakū ‘Oia‘i‘o (ALO) and ʻAha Lamakū ʻOiaʻiʻo-Hoʻoikaika Aʻe (ALO-HA) project staff partnered with the Ka‘ū-Kea‘au-Pāhoa Complex Area (KKP) and The Estria Foundation (TEF) to guide and mentor Kea‘au High School students in a two-week (March 1, 2022 to...

On November 25, 2022, PLC launched a virtual library system, Ke Ala ‘Imi Na‘auau, for the benefit of the four ʻAha Lamakū ʻOiaʻiʻo (ALO) project sties. The virtual library hub provides Ka‘ū-Kea‘au-Pāhoa Complex Area (KKP) students and teachers with a single point of...