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Center for Research on Education, Diversity, and Excellence Hawai‘i Project (CREDE)

The Center for Research on Education, Diversity, and Excellence (CREDE) Hawai‘i Project promotes educators’ use of research-based strategies of effective practice for culturally and linguistically diverse children and students. The project offers professional development to educators who want to improve the learning and engagement of children and students from diverse backgrounds.

The CREDE Standards

  • Joint Productive Activity: Collaborating with students to create joint products.
  • Language and Literacy Development: Developing competence in the language(s) of instruction throughout the day.
  • Contextualization: Connecting new information to what students already know and teaching in culturally relevant ways.
  • Complex Thinking: Challenging students toward cognitive complexity.
  • Instructional Conversation: Teaching through dialogue.
  • Modeling: Promoting observational learning.
  • Student Directed Activity: Encouraging students’ decision-making.

Professional Development Courses for Teachers of Hawaiian Students

Teachers attending CREDE course.
  • Are you interested in learning new teaching strategies for diverse students?
  • Do you have a bachelor’s degree?
  • Are you willing to participate throughout the next school year?

DEADLINE TO APPLY IS FEBRUARY 14, 2011

The CREDE Professional Development Program
A collaboration of the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa College of Education and Kamehameha Schools

You will learn about the Center for Research on Education, Diversity, and Excellence (CREDE) Standards for Effective Pedagogy, research-based strategies for culturally diverse learners. You will learn to apply the Standards to your teaching and lesson planning. For more information, go to http://crede.berkeley.edu

Teacher compensation is available. Learn more about how to apply and what course work is required.