By Jenni Arcieri Today the NOBIS World Dominican Republic team of 2016 said our goodbyes, many of us with a tear in our eyes. At breakfast we were joined by Patricia, Mariposa's director, who continued to share stories and plans about the girls at the center. It seems...

By Rebecca Timus I can't believe this trip is almost over! This has been an amazing experience for me as an educator, person, and specifically as a woman. Today we went to visit the Mariposa center again to observe the teachers, spend time with the students and to...

By Krista Moody Today we started the day by heading to the Mariposa Center.  We gathered for a bit and then went on a driving tour of a few schools in Cabarete and a walking tour of Callejón with Tricia.  We were able to visit the private school in the...

By Jessica Lynch On Day 5 we went on a beautiful boat trip to the Rio Boca river area. The river was named the Yessica River. Prior to getting on the boat, we checked out some of the local trees, plants, and animals. Particularly memorable, the crocodile!! After...

By Tricia Crowley Today was our day to travel to the country to see Freddie's family cocoa farm. We left the Hummingbird Hotel after breakfast and took the gua-gua to his farm in Rio San Juan - about an hour outside of Cabarete. On the bus with us was a group from the...

By Meghan Wiemer We woke up and headed down to a homemade breakfast- it was delicious! We began our morning at the Hummingbird Inn, discussing the ins and outs of service learning projects and also discussing class, power, and privilege. After this, we departed the...

By Meredith Woodruff The eight of us started our day at the Hummingbird Inn with a fabulous homemade breakfast of fresh fruits, yogurt and granola, eggs and toast, and of course, Dominican coffee. After breakfast, we traveled to the center and were given a tour. ...

By Casey Maguire Today is filled with planes, shuttles, and introductions. Meg, Jess, and I left for the Newark airport around 6:00am, got right through customs and awaited for our plane. We spent our time eating, talking to family members, and looking around the...

Our teacher spotlight this week is Vanessa Ehler. Vanessa teaches Upper School Spanish, Yoga, and is the 9th grade Dean at Brooklyn Friends School in Brooklyn, NY. Tell us why did you choose to attend the Nobis World program? At the time I was on a committee...

We are excited to share our first in a new Nobis Teacher Spotlight series. In these posts we will share interviews of teachers involved with Nobis Project. Learn about what drew them to participate and how their experience with Nobis Project shapes their work in the...

By Andrew Goodman Today marks the end of the "in-country" chapter of our Nobis World experience.  All of us are leaving The Kite Beach Inn and most of us are leaving Cabarete and the Dominican Republic ...at least for now.  (The exceptions are LaVona, whose...

By Andria R. Quintero, Director of Elementary, The Caedmon School Imagine your morning consists of roosters crowing, waves crashing, and breakfast from the land that surrounds you. The Nobis 11 is getting the opportunity to explore such experiences in The Dominican...

By Laura Bishop Today marked the beginning of our service project for the Mariposa Foundation. Tricia the founder of Mariposa, and a true visionary, outlined the foundation's most prescient needs. Prior to this meeting we'd received just a brief outline from Amanda...

By Bonnie Jackson After an eventful Saturday evening with multicultural conversation that continued into the night, we woke up excited to venture into un campo local para un almuerzo delicioso y local (a delicious, local lunch) from Freddy, Dominican native and...

By Christine Varoutsos, Spanish Teacher at Potomac School It's our first full day in the Dominican Republic, and we woke up feeling refreshed and excited to finally visit the Mariposa Center for Girls that we had read and heard so much about. After a short walk down...

By Sarah Coste, The Potomac School, McLean, VA At last... July 23rd is here!  Eleven teachers representing eight different schools joining Nobis World for a week-long service learning adventure in Cabarete, Dominican Republic. While we had informally "met each...

By Christen Clougherty, Ph.D. One of the goals of Nobis World programs is to engage in the deep work of reflecting on our personal perspectives of power, privilege and systems of oppression. A participant asked me recently why I, a white, middle class woman chooses to...

Over 70 years ago the Gullah residents of Harris Neck, Georgia were abruptly ordered to leave their coastal property so that the U.S. military could use their land for training. Residents were given a promise that they could return after WWI ended, but instead the...

Vanessa, a teacher from Brooklyn Friends School, shares about her experience with global service learning projects. She reflects on her experience with Nobis World in the Dominican Republic on the Wandering Educators blog. She shares that on the Nobis World program:...

By Christen Clougherty When I begin a global service-learning project in my classroom there is usually one student who questions why we are working with an international community when there is so much need here at home. They usually call up the phrase, "think global,...

By Alex Zinnes, Friends School of Atlanta I teach 7th and 8th grade World Studies at the Friends School of Atlanta.  This past summer, I co-facilitated Nobis World's trip to the Dominican Republic.  A major highlight for me was visiting a small, family-owned...

Emine, a teacher from Detriot, shares about her experience with Nobis World in the Dominican Republic on the Teaching Traveling Blog. This heartfelt sharing of her experience captures the passion that educators bring to their work and their commitment for making a...

"For me, the most meaningful part of the Nobis World experience was connecting and sharing with other educators around deepening the global and social justice orientation into our classrooms." - Nobis World 2014 participant Learn more about Nobis World and our summer...

By Francoise Heyden, Middle School Spanish Teacher at Carolina Friends School in Durham, North Carolina What a gift this Nobis World service-learning trip to the Dominican Republic was!  And on so many levels!  This intense and powerful week immersed in...

By Christen Clougherty Nobis World teachers at the King-Tisdell Cottage Nobis Project is based in Savannah, Georgia because that's where I call home. After college I wanted to live near the ocean, not too far from home (Durham, NC), in a smaller town were I could be...

Reflections by Jon DeGraff from Brooklyn Friends School Jon attended the Nobis World - Dominican Republic program this summer where we worked with the Mariposa DR Foundation in a small Caribbean village situated on the rural, hilly north coast of the Dominican...

by Debbie Bandy, English Teacher, Charleston, S.C....

“In a way we are always traveling. It's only that as the scenery becomes familiar we cease to give it the attention and gaping awe that was once bestowed upon it in heaping armfuls. We travel so that when we return "home" we can see ourselves in a new light, with new...

UNHCR Goodwill Envoys Visit Camps for Darfur Refugees  Company: UNHCR Age Range: Middle school to high school Does NOT Include Teaching Materials Topic: Racism and Human Rights Subject Areas: Human rights, Nationalism, Racism, Immigration, Persecution and War,...

In Plain Sight Company: WITNESS and Amnesty International USA Age Range: High School Includes Teaching Materials Topic: Human Rights Film Synopsis: Seeks to bring human rights issues and global stories into the classroom through hands-on activities and learning;...

Surviving Darfur Company: UNHCR Age Range: All Ages Does NOT Include Teaching Materials Topic: Racism and Human Rights Subject Areas: Human rights, Nationalism, Racism, Immigration, Persecution and War, Government, Social Studies, History, Freedom Film Synopsis:...

To Be a Refugee Company: UNHCR Age Range: All Ages Does NOT Include Teaching Materials Topic: Racism and Human Rights Subject Areas: Human rights, Nationalism, Racism, Immigration, Persecution and War, Government, Social Studies, History, Freedom Film Synopsis: Movie...

Film Title: “New Home, New Life” Company:  UNHCR—The UN Refugee Agency Age Range:  High School Does not include Teaching Materials Topic:  Racism and Human Rights Subject Areas:  Human rights, Nationalism, Racism, Immigration, Persecution and War,...

Film Title:  Utica, NY: The Town that Loves Refugees Company:  UNHCR—The UN Refugee Agency Age Range:  High School Does not include Teaching Materials Topic:  Refugees starting over Subject Areas:  Human rights, Nationalism, Racism,...

Film Title: Carly Company: UNHCR—The UN Refugee Agency Age Range: Elementary School and Middle School Does not include Teaching Materials Topic: Racism and Human Rights Subject Areas: Human rights, Nationalism, Racism, Immigration, Persecution and War, Government,...

Film Title: Woman’s Empowerment Company: Independent Lens Age Range: High school Includes Teaching Materials Topic: Women’s Empowerment Subject Areas: Social Studies, Global Studies, Civics, Economics, Government, Political Science, Sociology, World History, Language...