Meet Bob Burnette! A top-notch east coast guide and group favorite, we’ve had the pleasure of working together for quite a few seasons now. Since the pandemic put a hold on spring travel plans, Bob has shifted his guiding online and now he’s available to lead customized virtual field trips upon request for our Academic […]
This January tour operators, vendors, and educational travel leaders from around the world assembled in San Juan for the SYTA Summit. I was fortunate to attend, along with two other team members Tracy Roderick and George Mastrovaselis. The Student and Youth Travel Association (SYTA) is a non-profit, professional trade association promoting student & youth […]
Fundraisers can be beneficial for students and families to lower the cost of their trip. However, often schools are saturated with continuous fundraising for various programs. In fact, sometimes students are restricted from school wide fundraising all together. The list below provides some creative options for helping students with the cost of educational travel. […]
Travel, educational travel in particular, enhances learning in very real ways by making our studies come to life. But is there more to the journey? What else do we come home with? Great work reaps great rewards! Often the learning starts before the journey even begins! I was privileged to travel with my […]
This October marks 3 years since a major milestone for AE staffer Tracy Roderick as she completed her dream goal of running the Marine Corps Marathon. We chatted with her after her experience in 2016 and are reposting the interview on the day of the 44th MCM: — Meet Tracy Roderick: Top-notch Washington, DC guide, […]
First Travel Meeting: Top 5 Tips AE’s Teacher to Teacher Talk series is written for and by our group leaders. We’ve asked veteran teachers who have traveled with us year after year to share their expertise, tips & tricks with each other, and to offer advice to first-time expedition leaders. This month’s topic: Travel Meetings! […]
So, you have brought your students to Washington DC, Boston, and New York city. What’s next? The South has a rich and challenging history in the establishment of our nation. What could be a better way to engage students in critical thinking than bringing them to a place of such complexity? We have to […]
Dori Robinson is Academic Expeditions’ resident theater specialist and has developed and led top-notch theater & the arts travel programs for us around the world. Did you know that Dori is also an active playwright, director, and producer? Her most recent play, The Elm Tree, just debuted in Boston with Alight Theater Guild last month […]
Somehow, I became the “archivist” for our family. Usually, it’s some older person in a family, cognizant of their years slipping away, who takes on the task of documenting family history, genealogy, photos, and videos. But for me, my interest in archiving my family history came while I was still young and without yet any […]