by WorldTeach Guest | Feb 19, 2019 | Marshall Islands, News & Highlights
This week current WorldTeach participant Marcel Robicheaux shares his love of canoes and admiration for Marshallese culture. In WorldTeach’s Marshall Islands program, Marcel teaches science at Northern Island High School in Wotje, an atoll in the Ratak Chain. To...
by WorldTeach Publicity | Dec 19, 2018 | General Announcements, News & Highlights
WorldTeach is pleased to share with you the December 2018 WorldTeach newsletter! Click the image or link below to read the .pdf version of this month’s newsletter. WorldTeach Newsletter December 2018 In the newsletter you’ll find volunteer and program highlights,...
by WorldTeach Publicity | 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 | General Announcements, Marshall Islands, News & Highlights
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,...
