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...
September 29 and 30, 2014; November 30, 2014; December 11, 2014 | Building Foundational Reading Skills
PLC convened 40 participants, comprised of teachers and administrators, in a four-day professional development training called Building Foundational Reading Skills (BFRS). The BFRS training focused on explicit and systematic instruction in phonemic awareness, phonics,...
September 2014 | PLC Receives $3.0 Million Federal Grant Award
PLC was awarded (a) $2,970,698 for its federal grant application, Pihana Hou: An RTI Approach Building Early Reading Skills in Schools and Communities. Its central mission is to deliver supplemental services, focused on early reading and behavior supports, designed...
August 12, 2014 | PLC Launches Interactive Electronic Parent/Teacher Resource – Supporting Your Beginning Reader
This electronic flip book, based on popular hard copy rendition developed through one of PLC’s grant funded projects, provides teachers and parents with an overview of essential early literacy skills that researchers have identified as those children need to acquire...
January 28 and 29, 2014 | PLC Hosts Best Practices in Reading, Mathematics, and Positive Behavior Support
PLC convened 60 participants, comprised of teachers and administrators, in a professional development training called Best Practices in Reading, Mathematics, and Positive Behavior Supports. The training was facilitated by national and international experts...
October 29, 2013 | PLC Develops UH College of Education’s First Mobile App – Pihana ABCs
The College of Education, Curriculum Research & Development Group (CRDG), Literacy and Hawaiian Education Office, announced the release of its first mobile tablet application developed by the Piha Pono project, which is funded by the U.S. Department of Education,...
August 26 and 27, 2013 | School-Wide Positive Behavior Supports
On August 26–27, 2013, the project hosted a two-day professional development training session featuring Dr. George Sugai, Director of the Center for Behavioral Education & Research, University of Connecticut. Dr. Sugai facilitated 150 participants, comprising...