Paul Deering

Paul D. Deering is a Professor of Education at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa (UHM), where he has worked since 1993. He received his Ph.D. in Education from CU Boulder in 1992, and conducted post-doc research for another year on a fellowship from the James S. McDonnell Foundation. Paul teaches in Masters and Ph.D. programs in education at UHM, and directs the synchronous, online PACMED Program for working educators -- M.Ed. in Curriculum Studies with a Pacific Islands STEAM focus (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math). PACMED and its earlier in-person version has graduated 267 persons to date at a greater than 96% completion rate. There are now 80 students in the program from all the Hawaiian Islands, American Samoa, the US mainland and the Republic of the Marshall Islands. Graduates have won numerous awards, including Hawai‘i State Teacher of the Year, American Samoa Territorial Teacher of the Year, and Hawai‘i Association of Middle Schools Educator of the Year. Paul has taught, presented and published on education and adolescence in the US, Australia, New Zealand, American Samoa, Japan, Indonesia, Spain and the Republic of Marshall Islands.