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Year In Review 2011

15 Apr New Placed-based Science Curriculum

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In a collaborative effort, project director Lois Yamauchi of the University of Hawai‘i College of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology and lead curriculum developer Carol Ann Brennan of CRDG are engaged in a three-year project...

15 Apr CRDG Evaluation Team Serves the Early Childhood Community and Hawai‘i’s Race to the Top

Posted at 10:52h in Year In Review 2011

CRDG’s team of early childhood education evaluators contracted with the Hawai‘i P–20 Partnership for Education to collect data at preschools in Hawai‘i’s two Race to the Top (RTTT) “zones of school innovation” (ZSI). The ZSIs,...

15 Apr Supporting Native Hawaiian Students

Posted at 10:51h in Year In Review 2011

Building on past successes, CRDG continued its work providing support to Native Hawaiian students with the Kāko‘o Ikaika, Heluhelu Maoli, and Piha Pono projects, all formal partnerships between CRDG and the Hawai‘i Department of Education....

15 Apr Updating Place-based Science Curriculum

Posted at 10:46h in Year In Review 2011

The Hawai‘i Nature Study program, originally conceived and developed by Sister Edna Demanche in the 1970s, was always popular with Hawai‘i teachers because, unlike most science textbooks available to them, it provided inquiry-based activities focused...

15 Apr Expanding Opportunities in the Pacific

Posted at 10:41h in Year In Review 2011

One of the more promising uses of technology in education is to provide opportunities to teachers and students in remote locations. This is the goal of the Pacific Education and Research for Leadership in Science...