Guam Senator Judith Won Pat, EdD, has joined Pacific Resources for Education and Learning’s (PREL’s) Board of Directors, President and CEO Tom Barlow announced recently.
With experience earlier in her career as a teacher and school principal and more recently as a policy maker and Senator in the Guam Legislature—where she is currently Acting Chair of the Committee on Education—Senator Won Pat comes to the PREL Board well-versed in matters relating to education on Guam. As Chair of the Education Committee of the Association of Pacific Island Legislatures (APIL), an association of legislative representatives from 12 island governments, including the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM: Chuuk, Kosrae, Pohnpei, and Yap), Guam, Hawai‘i, the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), and the Republic of Palau, among others, Senator Won Pat also brings with her a broad spectrum of familiarity with the issues and challenges facing education and educators in PREL’s Pacific region.
Not only does Senator Won Pat have experience and knowledge of education, she has a good working knowledge of PREL as she is a past member of PREL’s Research and Development Cadre.
PREL is an independent, nonprofit 501 (c)(3) corporation that serves the educational community in the U.S.-affiliated Pacific, the continental United States, and countries throughout the world. PREL bridges the gap between research, theory, and practice in education and works collaboratively with schools and school systems to provide services that range from curriculum development to assessment and evaluation. In addition, PREL administers the Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Pacific, 1 of 10 Regional Educational Laboratories funded through the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education. With a commitment to ensuring that all students have an equal opportunity to develop a strong academic foundation, regardless of circumstances or geographic location, PREL has service centers in the U.S.-affiliated Pacific islands, including American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM: Chuuk, Kosrae, Pohnpei, and Yap), Guam, Hawai‘i, the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), and the Republic of Palau.
For additional information about this media release or PREL and its work, please contact Javier Elizondo, Director of Communications, by telephone at (808) 441-1300 or by email at elizondoj@prel.org, or visit our website at www.prel.org.
(Posted Wednesday, May 21, 2008)