It has been quite a year for all of us. Despite the outbreak of COVID-19, we were able to adapt and not only sustain but expand our work to connect diverse Jewish and Arab communities around the learning and practice of creative, problem-solving negotiation. While we had to suspend in-person workshops, the situation presented an opportunity to engage participants virtually,…
Thank you to the guests who have generously joined us so far to lead our monthly series of Negotiation Education Master Classes for members of the PATHWAYS Educator Community! From playing with improv techniques to reflecting on our approaches to handling conflict, investigating entrepreneurial leadership in the classroom to considering how to promote dignity as a core value in schools,…
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 Institute for Negotiation Education is pleased to announce the launch of a new cross-Atlantic partnership to offer a unique series of virtual joint learning and exchange workshops for high school students in San Diego (USA) and Sha'ar Hanegev (Israel), as part of the cities' sister-city relationship.The program is being developed in partnership with the San Diego Diplomacy Council, the…
Hi, this is Mike K writing, facilitator and program manager here at PATHWAYS. I’ll take a moment to reflect and celebrate the success of our most recent virtual workshop series “Conversation Labs”. Conversation Labs was a 5-part series we ran in partnership with Menahalim Beyachad in Jerusalem. I’m feeling very grateful to have worked with the two participating schools, Rawad Al…
After eight exciting, engaging, and playful virtual sessions, the Program in Leadership & Negotiation for Young Professionals has come to a close. A pilot cohort of sixteen graduates composed of young leaders from Palestine, Israel, and the UK just completed their journey together.Every Tuesday at 18:00, we came together (virtually) for 90 minutes to explore concepts in leadership and negotiation…
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…
PATHWAYS’s annual Negotiation Education Teachers (NET) Fellowship fosters learning and practice of problem-solving negotiation into the Israeli national educational system through professional leadership development of English language teachers, impactful experiential learning for high school students, creation of a shared library of teaching tools, and ultimately catalyzing of a national community of educators.Despite shifting from an in-person Game Changers workshop to…
With the current public health situation preventing us from gathering in-person, PATHWAYS launched a new virtual edition of our annual Negotiation Education Summer Institute for educators. Over the course of nine 90-minute sessions spaced over five days (Aug 16-20), 34 educators from a variety of backgrounds teaching at both Hebrew-speaking and Arabic-speaking schools across Israel gathered to explore how key concepts…