Reflections by Avi Ben-Hur, CWB Director of Education This July, we embarked to Israel on our first STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) educator’s study seminar. The goal of this study seminar is to introduce STEM educators at public, private and charter…
On September 27, 4:30-6pm, please join us for an event at St. Nicholas Catholic Cathedral celebrating the CWB Travel Seminar to Greece. For more information, click here. Reflections by Avi Ben-Hur, CWB Director of Education This June, our educators, students and professionals…
Reflections by Martin Michaels, Emily Richman, Jeremy Adams, Rachel Cohen, Millie Rosen & Jessica Katz. This summer, twenty-six American Jews – teachers, lawyers and writers, women and men from different parts of the U.S. – were brought together by a common history and…
During the summer, educators and students from the Wheeling area completed the interview and application process for the Poland 2016 study seminar. The 10 educators chosen are from public, private and Catholic high schools and middle schools. The 14 high school students…
When Carrie Zuberbuhler Kennedy’s husband attended a lunch meeting to discuss pro bono work for the nonprofit organization Classrooms Without Borders she didn’t expect him to come home and announce that she was going on a 12-day study seminar in Greece with…
In a matter of days, Pittsburgh-area schools will open their doors to welcome students and teachers to the start of another school year. But a group of educators will head back to school armed with a professional experience abroad that has opened their…
No place like home however, Israel 2015 from the participants to the sites to the Israeli teachers was amazing. I’m still absorbing and reflecting as I plan to sit down over the next week and share my experiences with my three daughters. …
Tonight is our last night in Israel, time to pack and get ready to get to the airport in the morning. But my mind is still buzzing with all the many things that we have done and I have learned on this…
Last night we were treated to a dinner at Nalaga’at (translated as Please Touch), which is a combination restaurant, coffee house and theater. The plays in the theater are performed by actors that are deaf and blind. The servers in the restaurant…
Prior to today, I was mostly impacted by the Israeli religious sites and the interesting symbolism reflected in many of the stories. As I was standing on an old Israeli military base overlooking the Syrian border, I heard a “boom” and saw…
It has been our privilege and pleasure as STEM teachers to visit many wonderful and inspiring schools, colleges, universities and science institutes on this trip to Israel. They differed in many ways. Some places were large, while others were small. Some were…