We are thrilled to share that Pathways has been renewed for the 2023-2025 academic years as one of the 16 grantees selected to continue providing virtual exchange experiences for young people in the U.S. and MENA region. With generous funding from The Stevens Initiative, we will continue to empower future change-makers to embrace differences, develop crucial skills for their future…
At PATHWAYS, we remain dedicated to our mission of equipping and empowering the next generation of citizens and leaders with creative problem-solving skills and fostering meaningful connections between peers across different schools and backgrounds. Despite particularly unstable times, we continue our work to deliver our Game Changers workshops in schools and are deeply grateful for the ongoing support of the…
Thank you for helping us to work towards a brighter future together!In November, we launched our first-ever crowdfunding campaign. With the support of our extended community, we were able to raise over $17,000! Your generous support helps us bring our bridge-building negotiation education program to more and more high schools and school networks from a variety of communities across Israel. If you’d like…
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…