(NAME-MCE) Pacific Educational Conference July 15–17, 2009 Guam

[Anselmo Villanueva]

PEC 2009 Invitation and Call for Proposals: July 15–1, 2009  Guam

Pacific Educational Conference (PEC) 2009 cohosts cordially invite you to
the 26th Annual PEC to be held in Guam July 15–17, 2009. Please submit your
workshop and/or meeting proposals and contribute to an outstanding
conference. To do so, visit PREL’s PEC
webpage<http://www.prel.org/pec/pec-2009-registration.aspx>at
http://www.prel.org/pec/pec-2009-registration.aspx to register for the
conference and submit your workshop, meeting proposal, and/or exhibit. The
deadline for submissions is April 28, 2009. The theme for PEC 2009 is
*Preparing
the Pacific Child for Life*. We look forward to seeing you there!

For more information, please contact:
PEC 2009 Committee
c/o Venesia R. Luzanta
Post Office DE
Hagatna, Guam  96932
Phone: (671) 300-1545
Email: gpss.pec at gmail.com
Registration website:
*http://www.prel.org/pec/pec-2009-registration.aspx*<http://www.prel.org/pec/pec-2009-registration.aspx>

More on PEC
** <http://www.prel.org/pec/pec-2009-registration.aspx>

>From its beginnings in 1984 in a school library in Guam, the Annual Pacific
Educational Conference (PEC) has grown into one of the largest education
conferences in the Pacific region.

The PEC is organized *for* Pacific educators *by* Pacific educators. It is
hosted in turn by different island communities in conjunction with local
departments or ministries of education.

The focus at the PEC is on professional development, with a wide variety of
activities to choose from. Intensive skill-building workshops for teachers
and principals are supplemented by shorter awareness and networking
sessions. Sessions are organized in strands aimed at providing intensive
professional development in areas of special interest to educators.

Conference themes and locations <http://www.prel.org/pec/past-pecs.aspx> are
selected by the Pacific Resources for Education and Learning (PREL) Board of
Directors, which consists of chief state school officers and community
representatives from PREL’s constituents.
The Pacific Way

One quality sets the PEC apart from other professional education
conferences: the Pacific way. Professional development sessions are followed
by evening receptions that promote cultural understanding through song,
dance, stories, and gifts. Delegations to the conference come from the
following Pacific island communities:

   - American Samoa
   - The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
   - The Federated States of Micronesia (Chuuk, Kosrae, Pohnpei, and Yap)
   - Guam
   - Hawai‘i
   - The Republic of the Marshall Islands
   - The Republic of Palau

 Asia, Australia, and the continental U.S. are represented, as well.