PR*TEC
With funding from the U.S. Department of Education, PREL operated the Pacific Regional Technology in Education Consortium (PR*TEC) from 2000 to 2005. The PR*TEC functioned as a collaboration among PREL, The University of Guam (UoG), The Hawai’i Department of Education (HIDOE), and The University of Hawai’i at Manoa (UH), with assistance from an outside contractor, Pacific Learning Systems. It was a project that served the education enterprise of 10 U.S.-affiliated states—American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM: Chuuk, Kosrae, Pohnpei, and Yap), Guam, Hawai’i, the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), and the Republic of Palau—located in the central and western Pacific region.
PR*TEC’s intent was to provide the following services:
- Professional Development (PD)
- Technical Assistance (TA)
- Adult/Parent Education
- Technology information dissemination to teachers and administrators in Pacific schools served by the PR*TEC.
The aim of these services was to increase local capacity to acquire and utilize technologies for the improvement of K–12 instruction. The PR*TEC participated in and contributed to national technology in education improvement efforts while serving the needs of the Pacific region. The work of the PR*TEC used educational technology to further the efforts of state education agencies (SEAs) across the region to address the underlying causes of poor student performance identified in the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) and the applicable goals of the U.S. Department of Education’s (U.S. ED’s) 2002–2007 Strategic Plan.
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Pacific Resources for Education and Learning
Phone:
(808) 441-1300
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(800) 377-4773
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Phone:
(808) 441-1300
U.S. Toll-free Phone:
(800) 377-4773
AskPREL