by Caitlin Ivester | May 23, 2018 | News & Highlights
Dr. Mitra Shavarini began as Executive Director at WorldTeach in September 2017. Mitra holds a doctorate from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education (HGSE) and has taught at Brandeis University for nearly ten years. In her first blog entry she discusses...
by Nolan Sutker | Jun 13, 2017 | Marshall Islands, News & Highlights, Uncategorized
The Marshallese word “Yokwe” has multiple meanings and contexts. It is a greeting, a noun, and a verb, all the same. On a wooden sign to the side of the James C. de Brueys – WorldTeach Memorial Basketball Court on the Bikarej atoll in Arno, Marshall...
by Nolan Sutker | May 30, 2017 | Marshall Islands, News & Highlights
Written by Bethany Fisher (current WorldTeach Marshall Islands volunteer) The island of Wotje is known for having good soil to grow a multiplicity of crops. However, since the El Nino draught of 2016, the extreme heat and lack of rain that swept through the RMI dried...
by Nolan Sutker | May 16, 2017 | Marshall Islands, News & Highlights
Written by Cari Deschak, RMI ’15 One innocuous half-wall of a Washington DC gallery holds a ringed twist of scrap metal. That description could include many art pieces at their most elemental, especially here along the cutting edge of modern artistic license,...
by Nolan Sutker | May 9, 2017 | Colombia, Ecuador, Micronesia, News & Highlights
Below you’ll find the story of Mary Nolan, one of our more experienced WorldTeach volunteer teachers. She recently began her third year and different country placement with WorldTeach. Mary serves as an inspiration to all of us as she continues to travel the...
by Nolan Sutker | Apr 25, 2017 | Marshall Islands, News & Highlights
The Importance of Choice by Christian Colo (RMI ’16) It’s another Monday morning as I wake up to the sound of lagoon waves lapping against the shore mere feet from my house. I look out my doorway towards the cookhouse and see smoke rising: breakfast time. Mama...
