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for the Educational Community
in Hawaii and the Pacific
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Background
Successful schools are critical to our future. Not only
is success necessary for meeting the requirements of the
No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB), well educated
young people are better prepared to become “worldclass”
citizens – making their lives more fulfilling, strengthening
our society, and contributing to our economic future.
Pacific Resources for Education and
Learning (PREL) understands the requirements set out by
NCLB. Our school improvement, professional development,
assessment, and research and evaluation services align
with these requirements and can be customized to meet
the needs of individual clients. Just as importantly,
PREL, and its well qualified staff, have been providing
schools in Hawaii and across the Pacific with effective
research-based support for over 15 years.
School
Improvement Planning
For more than a decade, PREL has provided educators
at the state, district, and school levels with technical
assistance and research-based strategies for developing
and implementing school improvement efforts.
Services include:
- Technology planning.
- Data driven decision making.
- Development of school, parent, and
community networks in support of improvement.
- Assistance in the selection of proven
and appropriate programs and resources.
- Curriculum and school environment
audits.
- Large-scale, school-wide, and classroom
assessments.
- Creation of data management systems.
- Career education programs design.
Professional
Development Services
PREL’s professional development programs provide
school administrators, teachers, resource specialists,
and paraprofessionals with high-quality research-based
leadership development and classroom strategies focused
on the improvement of teaching and learning. Current professional
development service offerings include a range of sessions,
from three-hour workshops to college courses (available
for graduate and undergraduate credit). Current topics
include:
- Developing reading literacy.
- Reading and writing across the curriculum.
- Addressing mathematics and science
standards.
- Engaging all students in the teaching
and learning process (culturally inclusive environments
and classroom strategies).
- Questioning and understanding to
improve learning and thinking.
- Assessing in the classroom.
- Integrating and applying technology.
- Creating, selecting, and/or using
quality online and distance learning resources.
- Preventing substance abuse and strengthening
health education.
- Improving learning through the arts
and humanities.
These services can be tailored to meet
the specific needs of the target district or school and
can be delivered in a variety of formats including onsite
training, video teleconferencing, topical electronic mailing
lists, and Web-based systems.
Research
and Evaluation Services
PREL has been involved in research and evaluation at the
state, regional, and national levels since 1990. The evaluators
and researchers on staff are available to assist in the
design and implementation of both research and evaluation
projects to meet client needs for scientifically based
research, including the requirements of NCLB. Research
and evaluation services
include:
- Evaluations (formative and summative)
to guide continuing work and meet the requirements of
funding agencies.
- Program and product evaluations.
- Needs assessments to identify areas
of strength and those that need improvement.
- Reports that provide the appropriate
information in user-friendly language.
Production
and Delivery Services
PREL has the capacity to collaborate to produce high-quality,
customized curriculum and learning resources. PREL can
provide this expertise to help your school or district
produce learning materials such as:
- Distance learning courses.
- Websites.
- Video and film.
- Interactive multimedia CD-ROMs and
DVDs.
Credit
Graduate and undergraduate credit is available for teachers
involved in extended professional development activities.
PREL will also work with schools to offer credit through
the Hawaii Department of Education (DOE) Professional
Development and Educational Research Institute (PDERI)
whenever possible.
Costs
The cost of professional development services average
$750 per day. Planning, assessment, evaluation, and research
services are available at highly competitive rates based
on the scope of the project. Estimates will be provided
upon request.
PREL receives federal funding to support
some of its activities. The cost of services targeted
by these projects, currently identified as school communities
serving high-needs, at-risk, and underserved populations,
are often partially offset by this federal funding.
PREL Services
Catalog
The catalog contains a complete listing with descriptions
of services available from PREL. To order the print version,
email orderinfo@prel.org.
About
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Defining
Features of PREL (365K)
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Administrative/Fiscal
Management (758K)
Arts
and Humanities Education (92K)
Assessment
and Accountability (101K)
Culture
(66K)
Curriculum/Instructional
Design (354K)
Early
Childhood (1.17M)
Educational
Reform (118K)
Educational
Technology and Distance Education (129K)
Evaluation
(69K)
Health
Education and Substance Abuse Prevention (89K)
Language
(1.34M)
Product
Development and Multimedia Production (1.18M)
Reading
and Literacy (126K)
Research
(967K)
Science
and Mathematics Education (397K)
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Contact
For further information about these services, please visit
our website at www.prel.org,
or contact Dr. Robert Allen, Director of Business Development
at (808) 441-1313 or allenr@prel.org.
For additional information about PREL,
its mission, program of work, products, publications,
and major partners, please contact:
Pacific Resources for Education and
Learning
900 Fort Street Mall, Suite 1300
Honolulu, Hawaii 96813
Phone: (808) 441-1300
Fax: (808) 441-1385
U.S. Toll-free Phone: 1 (800) 377-4773
U.S. Toll-free Fax: 1 (888) 512-7599
Last updated November 30, 2004
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