Kate Lukaszewicz | Educator Day 2 | 2022 Inside Israel: Educational Leadership Seminar Today’s sojourn brought us to touchstones of intersecting histories. We braved March snow, a rarity in Jerusalem, to stand atop the Mount of Olives, staring across the valley towards…
Alex, Lincoln, Rinnie Day 1 | 2022 Children’s Village Teen Volunteer Program Today, we woke up relatively late, which was great for resetting jet lag. We made our own breakfasts out of a variety of ingredients in the kitchen, many of them…
David Barkovich PhD | School Counselor Day 1 | 2022 Inside Israel: Educational Leadership Seminar The first day of travel in Israel was filled with dichotomies. The weather was sunny and clear, yet bitterly cold. In the morning the participants laughed in…
Ellen Resnek | Educational Programs and Outreach Manager, CWB We entered into our community of learners a band of educators, scholars, administrators and community change makers and in that space we found our community of purpose. Our transformative study seminar unfolded as…
Our honored guest was Charles Person, one of two surviving Freedom Riders to have made the trip in its entirety from Washington DC to New Orleans. The songs of the movement sustained him, he said, especially so when he knew that he should have felt fearful, and no song strengthened him more than “Oh Freedom.”
Laura Thomson Sites of Violence, Sites of Healing Today we visited the National Memorial for Peace and Justice and the Legacy Museum, both located in Montgomery, Alabama. We were warned prior that this would be a hard day, and I thought I…
Jennifer Brown and Derek Chimner “We have come a great distance as a society, but we still have a great distance to go.”– Former Congressman John Lewis This was the first line read during a memorial service we held at the end…
Deb SmithSocial/Racial Justice CoordinatorYWCA Hanover Montgomery, Alabama ‘History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.’ -Maya Angelou As I continue this journey with Classrooms Without Borders, I am reminded of all the…
Lauren Hall | High School Administrator Day two began on Atlanta Student Movement Boulevard, the birthplace of the 1960-1965 Atlanta Student Movement and central location to 6 Historically Black Universities: Atlanta University, Clarke College, Interdenominational Theological Center, Morehouse College, Morris Brown College,…
Classrooms Without Borders (CWB) stands alongside peoples of color in the long fight against racism in the United States. Upholding our mission to teach cross-cultural inclusion and respect, CWB stands in solidarity with the African-American community and all communities of color. Together we…
In my hometown of Rockville, there is a road that I pass on my way to work with a Jewish day school, Jewish community center, synagogue, Jewish retirement home, and Jewish hospice center. I attended the Jewish day school, was a member…