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Education summit opens tonight
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Posted on Jul 26 1999
Delegates to the 16th Annual Pacific Educational Conference will gather at Diamond Hotel tonight for the summit’s official opening ceremony which starts at 6:30 PM.
About 500 educators from the mainland and Pacific island states and entities are expected to attend the region’s biggest educational summit, which will start formal discussions at the Marianas High School tomorrow.
Throughout the three-day conference, which ends on Thursday, the participants will have 100 workshop sessions to choose from.
Pre-conference institutes are scheduled today, from 8:30 AM to 3:00 PM, at MHS campus.
Each institute will focus on a particular issue. Among the topics on schedule are common sense parenting program, comprehensive school reform, English literacy for second language learners, and enhancing teaching and learning through telecommunications.
This year’s summit has the theme Pacific Communities: Leaders of the New Millennium.
The organizing committee is composed of representatives from the Pacific Resources for Education and Learning, Public School System, Northern Marianas College, and the Legislature.
Delegations come from Oregon, Hawaii, Guam, American Samoa, CNMI, FSM, Marshall Islands and Palau.
“There is a quality to this even that sets it apart from other professional education conference: The Pacific way,” says the organizing committee.
The conference, which is held in different islands every year, follows the tradition of sharing songs, dances, stories and gifts.
These activities, the committee said “expand learning into the realm of cultural understanding and provide many opportunities to create and build friendships and professional relations.” (MCM)
