February 5, 2019 | PLC Launches Podcast Show, Pacific Education Pulse (PEP)
In February 2019, PLC launched the Pacific Education Pulse podcast (PEP Talk), which highlights the work of experts dedicated to improving teaching and learning so that children and youth reach their full potential. In the first episode, host Hugh Dunn interviewed...
January 26, 2019 | For the Second Consecutive Year, PLC Receives Distinguished Paper Award at the 2019 Annual HERA Conference
PLC Receives Distinguished Paper Award at the 2019 Annual HERA Conference Drs. Hugh Dunn (PLC Director and Principal Investigator) and Malkeet Singh (Senior Research Analyst, Wake County, North Carolina, Public School System) co-authored the paper, A New Research...
December 19, 2018 | PLC Book Festival at Boys & Girls Club of Wai‘anaeDecember 19, 2018 | PLC Book Festival at Boys & Girls Club of Wai‘anae
PLC’s December 19, 2018 Book Festival “Meet an author. Adopt a book.” was hosted by the Boys & Girls Club of Waianae. The event featured award-winning children’s book author and illustrator, James Rumford, whose books are published...
September 26, 2018 | PLC Holds Book Festival at Boys & Girls Club, Nānakuli
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...
June 25, 2018 | Enhanced Core Reading Program (ECRI) Training
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...
January 13, 2018 | PLC Research Receives 2018 Hawaii Educational Research Association Distinguished Paper Award
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:...
December 20, 2017 | PLC Director Meets with City Officials From Kwajalein
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...
September 25, 2017 | PLC is Awarded $2.3 Million DoED Grant to Improve Early Reading Instruction
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...
August 31, 2017 | PLC Conducts DIBELS Next Data Interpretation Workshop
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...
August 10, 2017 | PLC Partners with Hawaii Department of Education, School Library Services, for 2017 Statewide Library Conference
2017 Statewide Library Conference At the 2017 Statewide Library Conference held at OCISS, HIDOE, on August 10, 2017, PLC sponsored and coordinated two live-remote breakout sessions facilitated by Jennifer LaGarde. Over 140 educators (the majority of whom were school...
June 5 and 6, 2017 | PLC Hosts Leadership Institute for Early Reading
PLC conducted a two-day Leadership Institute for Early Reading for 65 educators, including classroom teachers and school-, district-, and state-level administrators. The institute featured Dr. Cyndy McGurl (The HILL for Literacy) and Dr. Ed Kame`nui who combined their...
April 28 and 30, 2017 | Dunn and Singh Share Research Findings at AERA, San Antonio
PLC Program Director, Dr. Hugh Dunn, and Education Northwest Senior Evaluator, Dr. Malkeet Singh, presented two of their co-authored papers (Pacific Islander and Native Hawaiian Students’ Reading Achievement in Hawaii; The Attendance Gap: A Case Study in Hawaii) at...