Education briefs
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Scholarship fund targets teachers
Pacific Resources for Education and Learning is seeking applicants for scholarships to encourage teachers in U.S.-affiliated Pacific islands.
The PREL Teacher Scholarship Fund was established for residents of American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, the Republic of the Marshall Islands and the Republic of Palau.
Applicants must be residents of these islands and be committed to working in primary or secondary education in the region. Scholarships will go to teachers or teacher candidates who are in the process of completing an accredited preparation program.
Deadline is June 15. Forms and instructions are available online (www.prel.org/scholarship). For information, call Joan Perkins at 441-1420 or by e-mail, perkinsj@prel.org.
Free Shakespeare packet available
High school teachers can order a free resource packet about teaching Shakespeare from Video Placement Worldwide.
The packet includes an educational video, "Shakespeare in our Time;" an audio CD, "Teaching Shakespeare;" a teacher's guide with lesson plans on Shakespeare's life and Elizabethan theater, a recitation contest booklet; "Fun with Shakespeare" brochures and a timeline poster of the bard's plays.
To review, register and order the teacher's resource packet and other free educational video programs, visit www.vpw.com. Teachers may also send a free fax to (800) 358-5218 or write on school letterhead to Video Placement Worldwide, 25 Second St. N., Suite 120, St. Petersburg, FL 33701.
The packets are part of the National Endowment for the Arts "Shakespeare in American Communities" tour, which includes performances of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" on O'ahu, Maui and the Big Island in October. For more information, visit www.shakespeareinamericancommunities.org.
Workshop covers Hawaiian issues
Chaminade University of Honolulu is sponsoring a summer workshop and seminar series on campus June 21 to July 14 entitled "Nana I Hawai'i I Ko'u Mau Maka (See Hawai'i Through My Eyes)."
Under the direction of Chaminade's kumu-in-residence, John Keola Lake, the noncredit series will cover a wide range of contemporary Hawaiian issues including: Kanaka Maoli and Indigenous Nonviolence Resistance with Kaleo Patterson and Ha'aheo Guanson; International Law, United Nations and Hawai'i with Mililani Trask; and a symposium on Hawaiian Social Justice with Le'a Kanehe.
Cultural workshops include: Hawaiian epistemology with Manu Meyers; puppetry with Meleana Meyers and Kumu Lake; fabric arts with Bishop Museum specialist Marques Hanalei Marzan; and computer literacy and technology with Malia Nobrega.
A weeklong hula workshop will feature a different kumu hula daily.
For more information, call Joyce Cervantes at 440-4201.
Mid-Pac will take home-schoolers
Home-schoolers are eligible to take summer school classes at Mid-Pacific Institute, the Manoa private school announced. Students between ages 6 and 13 can take morning and afternoon classes on Introduction to Technology in the 21st Century, basic physics and theatre.
For more information call the school at 973-5056.
