This month our Alumni Community of Educators (A.C.E) were finally able to come together from across the region for two Regional Meetup events in central and northern Israel. Our participants got to explore some of the real-time challenges that they are facing as educators using a tool for systematic problem-solving to both make progress on their respective challenges and truly support one another.…
We successfully completed our first cohort of Game Changers in Education supported by the Stevens Initiative, where we brought together students from Al-Qasemi Academic College of Education, Bridgewater State University, and Oranim Academic College of Education. Over twelve highly interactive sessions, participants created connections with one another, discovered their own habits and assumptions about negotiation, and built up their professional toolset and confidence through a series of…
The Darca Negotiation Program is well underway, with 14 high schools partnering up, representing diverse Hebrew and Arabic speaking, Religious and Secular communities. The almost 300 tenth grade students are encountering peers from other sectors of Israeli society, hosting one another at their schools while their teachers are deepening their own negotiation skill set through a Ministry of Education approved professional development course. We are partnering yet again,…
After a successful first year, our partnership with EcoPeace Middle East continues. The second cohort of Water Diplomacy for Young Professionals, a regional EcoPeace program, is well underway. EcoPeace staff across three offices in Jordan, Palestine and Israel are taking their participants through a journey of parallel learning with the support of PATHWAYS as a content expert focused on problem-solving…
We are thrilled to share some of the upcoming partnerships and programs that we are initiating in the new year! Under the auspices of Stevens Initiative and the Aspen Institute through our Game Changers in Education program, this October we are launching our pilot cohort which will bring together undergraduate education majors in the U.S. with pre-service teachers from academic…
Having gone through our first ever Virtual Negotiation Education Summer Institute in August 2020, one member of Atid’s English Department leadership team was determined to co-create a negotiation program for Atid that would not only equip their teachers with certain skills and knowledge but also create a sense of community. Against adversity and with tremendous obstacles in their path, the…
Earlier in the year we partnered with a dedicated group of 10 lead teachers from 10 Darca schools and led them through a five-part program where they gained experience in how to incorporate experiential negotiation skills into their English language classrooms. They subsequently had a total of 115 of their students participate in an engaging and interactive workshop in which…
This fall we had 50 pre-service education students at HaKibbutzim Academic College participate in four two-part workshops. PATHWAYS is passionate about training the next generation of educators by providing a learning experience encompassed in experiential problem-solving negotiation skills that can be utilized in their future classrooms. These sessions provided EFL pre-service teachers with the ability to incorporate negotiation, communication activities, and…
During the 2020-21 academic year, 24 talented and dedicated pre-service English educators participated in a two-part program over 12 total sessions. They learned key concepts and cultivated skills including navigating difficult situations through problem-solving negotiation and built a salient toolkit to support their role as educators. These sessions provided EFL pre-service teachers with the ability to incorporate negotiation, problem-solving, and communication…
PATHWAYS has been involved in Branco Weiss schools for several years, and this year, two of our legacy schools, [Rabin High School in Mazkeret Batya and Kochvei HaMidbar, a bedouin school in the Negev, Lahav Forest] came together virtually to continue a partnership which has formed over previous years through passionate led teachers’ participation through PATHWAYS programs.We successfully led two…