The Pacific Literacy Consortium (PLC) funds SPARX Hawai‘i
What is the PLC?
The Pacific Literacy Consortium (PLC) is an education and outreach program of the College of Education, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. PLC exists to build and align a network of strategic partnerships that foster developing, implementing, and evaluating innovative and evidence-based educational approaches designed to improve the academic outcomes and life chances of Hawaiʻi's children and youth.
The federally funded ʻAha Lamakū ʻOiaʻiʻo (ALO) grant is one of PLC’s projects designed to provide culturally-responsive leadership development, mentoring, and transition supports to Native Hawaiian youth. ALO student activities offer experiential and place-based experiences that complement what students learn during the school day and address students’ essential academic, physical wellness, and social-emotional needs.
Our Mission
The Pacific Literacy Consortium (PLC) exists to build and align a network of strategic partnerships that collaboratively develop, implement, and evaluate innovative and evidence-based educational approaches designed to improve reading outcomes and life chances of children in Hawaiʻi.
Our History & Reach
PLC is a program of the Curriculum Research and Development Group, College of Education, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. PLC’s core work is grounded in a longstanding, successful partnership with the Hawaiʻi Department of Education. This partnership, sustained by multiple grants across two decades, was initially referred to as Pihana Nā Mamo, the name of PLC’s original grant. Since 2000, the efforts of this partnership were sustained and scaled by thirteen subsequent grants that resulted in systematic, coordinated services targeting teachers and students across 56 public schools in Hawaiʻi.