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Main program goals are: 1) Promoting students' moral development through social and emotional learning. 2) Reducing hostilityand building compassion among children and adolescents. 3) Bridging school and home environments.What are the dynamics we envision in such a program? The above described global educational program will take part in theteaching training process, we will open a joint website, all the dialogues and correspondence will be in English, and theory will bestudied in local language. American and Israeli students will address their attitudes towards moral dilemmas, focus on moraldilemmas in the classroom and share practical ways to manage moral dilemmas in the class from different cultural perspectives.Sharing thoughts, attitudes and experience to draw conclusions will be more interesting for our students, will raise their motivationand raise their curiosity to understand themselves and others around the world. It will create a new view for our students enablingthem to better understand similarities and differences in our community/culture. Furthermore, dealing with schools’ moral dilemmaswill expose our students to cultural characteristics and moral implications that are reflected in students’ relationships, students- teacherrelationships, family-school relationships, social norms and democratic ideals. In addition, participating in this program will giveour students the opportunity to take part in a global educational action research.William DavisConflict Resolution course using Skype and Facebook (Fri.. Sept. 27th 2:00 PM)For many provincial US students global politics and particularly classes on Conflict Resolution are difficult. Much of the currenteducational literature suggests by that multi-cultural interaction is a powerful learning tool. This proposal outlines the establishment ofa technically-mediated, visual platform, where students, who are physically situated in two geographically distant communities,interact using strategies that improve established student learning outcomes (SLO’s). The project seeks to determine through surveydata and empirical tests if US and Israeli students who interact with their global peers will identify with them and better achieveSLO’s."Itzik GonenListening without Agreement: An intergroup dialogue in a bi-national class (Fri.. Sept. 27 th , 03:00 PM)