For the community, By the community

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.…

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World Class Connection through Stevens Initiative

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…

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Positive Impact through the Education System and Networks

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,…

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A look to the horizon as 2021-22 fast approaches

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…

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Negotiation Education Master Classes: Virtual Facilitation, Saying “No,” and Empathy

We rounded out the 2020-2021 series of Negotiation Education Master Classes with interactive virtual sessions on Virtual Facilitation (Avi Goldstein, PATHWAYS), Saying "No" (Florrie Darwin, Harvard University), and the Practice of Empathy in Education (Amy Rebecca Gay). Each virtual session brought together and engaged 20+ members of our growing and diverse national community of educators.  Florrie Darwin, Harvard University Program…

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Negotiation Education Workshops with Atid School Network

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…

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Collaboration with Darca School Network

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…

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Program on Negotiation and Leadership in partnership with the American Center in Jerusalem

Hi, this is Mike K writing, facilitator and program manager here at PATHWAYS. We recently completed a 12-week Program on Negotiation and Leadership (PNL) in partnership with the American Center Jerusalem (ACJ). Fifteen passionate leaders from Jerusalem who are ACJ alumni joined us for what was a deeply enriching and connective experience. All sessions were on Zoom as we traversed…

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Stevens Initiative Announces Support for Game Changers in Education Program

PATHWAYS Institute for Negotiation Education Receives Stevens Initiative Funding for Program to Virtually Connect Young People Around the World Grantees will bring together thousands of young people from the United States and the Middle East and North Africa for an exciting opportunity to engage with global peers through virtual exchange. Haifa, April 7, 2021 –– Today, the Stevens Initiative announced…

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Negotiating Together in Jerusalem

Hi, this is Mike K writing, facilitator and program manager here at PATHWAYS. Throughout the months of November, December and January 2021 PATHWAYS facilitated a five part negotiation skills workshop series for two schools in Jerusalem.  Many thanks to our partners Learning Together who have supported us for many years and helped us connect with these two wonderful groups of…

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