Pacific Resources for Education and Learning

Pacific Resources for Education and Learning (PREL) has been selected by the Hawai‘i Business Magazine as one of the Best Places to Work in Hawai‘i, 2008.

Best Places to Work in Hawai‘i, sponsored by ProService Hawai‘i, is an annual feature for the Hawai‘i Business Magazine. This past year, employees of organizations competing for the awards were surveyed across the state. Their responses were compiled by the Best Companies Group and used to determine Hawai‘i’s top employers. Participation in the program required each organization to go through a workplace assessment process. The process included surveying staff, as well as taking an inventory of company benefits, policies, and offerings. The information was then processed and analyzed to determine the best places to work in Hawai‘i.

The Pacific Language Early Readers Website received a 2007 Association of Educational Publishers (AEP) Distinguished Achievement Award in the category of Curriculum, World Language Instruction Website. The Pacific Language Early Readers include 10 stories appropriate for young pre-K to 3rd grade readers in English and nine Pacific languages. For a complete list of the winners, visit www.aepweb.org/awards/winners.htm.

An Island Invaded, a film produced by PREL, received two Telly awards: Winner in the Documentary category and Finalist in the Cultural category. This 50-minute documentary presents firsthand accounts of the World War II occupation of Guam and was first shown at the 2004 Hawaii International Film Festival. www.tellyawards.com

The Association of Educational Publishers (AEP), the nation's leading professional organization for supplemental educational publishers, presented two Distinguished Achievement Awards to PREL. The Island Alphabet Books Series won for book Whole Publication: Specialized Audience, and NEARStar was recognized for Educational Websites: Language Instruction for Children. Click for a complete list of the winners.

NEARStar, the Web-based early reading curriculum, received a 2004 award from the Association of Education Publishers.
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NEARStar received a 2004 award for its Early Elementary ESL (English as a Second Language) website.
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PREL was recognized as one of Hawaii's top 250 businesses for 2003.

PREL received a Healthy Workplace Award (HWA) from the Hawaii Psychological Association at their October 2003 annual conference.

The 2003 EDDIE award recognized NEARStar's innovative and content-rich website for providing parents and teachers with the technology tools to foster educational excellence. 
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A finalist award was presented to PREL in 1998 for the project Island Worlds: Art & Culture in the Pacific, which was co-produced with and is available from Crizmac Art & Cultural Education Materials, Inc.