May 9, 2016 | PLC Hosts PD on Vocabulary and Comprehension Strategies, Facilitated by Ed Kame`enui
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...
February 6, 2016 | Supplementing Core Reading Program With Evidence-based Practices
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...
January 21 and 22 | 2016 BFRS Kickoff Session
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)...
December 1, 2015 | PLC Partners with INPEACE to Pilot-test Storybook Embedded Assessment
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...
September 24, 2015 | PLC Hosts PELI Training
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...
September 1, 2015 | External Evaluation Shows Positive Impact of PLC’s Projects on Children’s Reading Outcomes
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...
August 27, 2015 | PLC Develops Teacher Resource on Native Hawaiian Hints for Teachers
The Pacific Literacy Consortium (PLC) team recently published its latest teacher resource, Ka Manaʻo Pono Hawaiʻi No Nā Kumu Kula Aupuni—Helpful Native Hawaiian Hints for Public Elementary School Teachers. Written in a simple, yet compelling, talk-story format, void...
July 24, 2015 | PLC’s Pihana Letter Combinations App Goes Live
The Pihana Letter Combinations adaptive learning mobile application is a product of PLC’s Pihana Hou project, a partnership between the Curriculum Research & Development Group, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and the Hawaiian Education Program, Hawaiʻi Department...
May 2015 | PLC Provides Children and Families in 11 Schools With 24-7 Access to Electronic Books Through OverDrive
PLC partnered with the Hawaiʻi Department of Education (HIDOE), Office of Curriculum, Instruction and Student Support, School Library Services to give project school children and families, associated with 11 project sites, access to electronic books through OverDrive,...
April 28, 2015 | REWARDS Training
On April 28, 2015, PLC hosted a teacher workshop called Reading Excellence: Word Attack and Rate Development Strategies (REWARDS). Thirty teachers from project site and non-project site schools attended this all-day session, facilitated by reading consultant,...
January 15, 16, 23, and 30, 2015 | PLC Hosts Building Foundational Reading Skills Workshop 2015
Across four days, PLC brought together 39 participants, comprising teachers and administrators, from 11 project sites. Collectively, the sessions focused on evidence-based practices for teaching reading to struggling students. The objective of the workshop was...
November 19 and 20, 2014 | Whole Number Foundations for Kindergarten and Grade 1
PLC convened 33 teachers for a two-day training (November 19–20) at the Mānoa Grand Ballroom called Whole Number Foundations for Kindergarten and Grade 1. Facilitated by Kathleen Jungjohann, instructor and researcher at the Center for Teaching and Learning, University...