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Pacific News
PREL’s service center in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana
Islands has moved. The new location is Marianas High School, Building
H, on Saipan. The center has a new phone number, (670) 234-6000, and a
new fax number, (670) 234-7735.
The Mathematics Education for Novice Teachers: Opportunities for Reflection
(MENTOR) Project held its Inaugural Institute in Guam, January 6-9. This
new program supports mathematics education in the U.S.-affiliated Pacific
by promoting mentoring and other forms of support for novice teachers.
About half of the institute was devoted to mathematics education and the
other half was spent training participants to be mentors. Guam’s
Department of Education expressed its appreciation that the event took
place as planned despite the hardships caused by Supertyphoon Pongsona.
The 20th annual Pacific Educational Conference will be held July 21-24,
2003, in Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia. The theme for this year’s
conference is “Protecting the environment through culture, literacy,
and technology.” For more information see www.prel.org/pec.
PREL has received a three-year renewal of its PRELSTAR grant from the
U.S. Department of Education (U.S. ED). The PRELSTAR project is one of
U.S. ED’s Star Schools programs, which are grants awarded to organizations
working to promote distance education. PRELSTAR’s mission is to
enhance learning in the Pacific region by enabling and promoting the use
of distance learning technology. The project develops and delivers educational
programs and provides training and technical assistance. For more information
contact PRELSTAR Program Director Steve Baxendale at (808) 441-1363 or
baxendas@prel.org.
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