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.…
In partnership with the American Center Jerusalem we recently completed a series of workshops with two passionate and inspiring schools in Jerusalem. 75 students from the schools L’Yada and Rawad al Quds came together at the American Center Jerusalem (ACJ) to learn negotiation skills, practice their English and get to know people from a very different community and background. As…
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…
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…
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…
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…