The TCC conference team will hold a special, FREE, pre-conference webinar in partnership with the Learning Design & Technology Department and LearningTimes. This event is a preview of the upcoming main conference on April 13-15. The featured presentation will be followed by a short orientation for presenters.
DATE: March 17, 2021
TIME: 2:00-3:30 PM (1400-1530) HST. Other timezones.
WHERE: ONLINE in ZOOM
FEE: FREE ($0 USD)
RSVP: RSVP below to receive a ZOOM meeting LINK
Building on the Future by Looking to the Past: Pacific Islander Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic
This session highlights impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on teaching and learning in Pacific Islander communities as well as effective community-based responses, including those which leverage cultural values and norms. Digital and social inequities as well as strategies to support these communities will also be shared.
Mary Therese Perez Hattori, Ed.D.
Acting Director, Pacific Islands Development Program
East-West Center
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Dr. Mary Therese Perez Hattori is native Chamoru of the island of Guåhan (Guam). She is one of nine children born to Fermina Leon Guerrero Perez and Paul Mitsuo Hattori and resides in O‘ahu, Hawai’i. She holds a B.Ed. and Professional Diploma in Secondary Social Studies with a concentration in Pacific Islands History, an M.Ed. in Educational Technology, and an Ed.D. in Professional Educational Practice from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Dr. Hattori is Acting Director of the Pacific Islands Development Program in the East-West Center and is cooperating graduate and affiliate faculty for the University of Hawai’i.
SPEAKER ORIENTATION
A ZOOM orientation by Rebecca Israel of LearningTimes for TCC 2021 conference concurrent session speakers will immediately follow at 3:00 p.m. HST. Anyone interested is invited to attend.