Hawai'i Positive Engagement Project (H-PEP)
New H-PEP Project (2021 - 2024)!
The Hawaiʻi Positive Engagement Project’s (H-PEP) mission is to innovatively address Native Hawaiian parent, educator, and student needs that have been intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic. This is a training grant with an evaluation piece and not considered research. See project description or the website: https://cds.coe.hawaii.edu/hpep/.
Project Dates: 2015 – 2019
Funded by: US Department of Education Native Hawaiian Education Program
About
What’s going right? Every person, every place, every time.
We provide strengths- based professional development for Hawai’i’s educators and training for parents.
Project Objectives and Activities:
- Address the professional development (PD) needs of Native Hawaiian early educators (preschool teachers, aides, administrators) and those who work with Native Hawaiian students in Early Childhood Education;
- Build knowledge and increase early educators’ use of effective, research- based, culturally appropriate strategies that will strengthen early learning outcomes for at- risk Native Hawaiian preschool students;
- Build protective factors of Native Hawaiian families with young children by facilitating positive parent engagement and early literacy skills through the use of culturally appropriate research-based strategies; and
- Create and disseminate an accessible repository of hard copy and online materials for continued use post-grant, to increase the sustained use of effective strategies.
Principal Investigator: Dr. Naomi Rombaoa Tanaka
Team members: Dr. Naomi Rombaoa Tanaka; Leanne Chang; Vanessa Crail; Kristy Chong
