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Wordless Wednesday: 25 Travel Brochure Photos
For this week's Wordless Wednesday post, we're celebrating 25 years with our readers. Here are 25 years worth of student travel catalog cover photos. Enjoy!
Fear and Courage
A response to the NYTimes piece, Travel is my Antidote for Fear. As Covid eases, I’m heading out again.
Wordless Wednesday: Students Traveling in France
Wordless Wednesday: Join us as one of our student groups shares photos from their recent educational tour to France!
Getting School Board Approval for Educational Travel
If you are seeking permission to organize an overseas trip, there are some important things to keep in mind before talking to your school principal, or to the school board.
First-Hand Account: How an Educational Tour Impacted Me
First-Hand Account: “How an Educational Tour Impacted Me” - learn how educational travel impacted a student FROM a student.
The Editor's Choice: Emilia-Romagna Culinary Arts Tour
The Editor's Choice: Emilia-Romagna Culinary Arts Tour
5 Things Successful Group Travel Organizers Don't Do!
Five ways to avoid failure when recruiting passengers for your educational travel group!
Benefits for Teachers Who Travel with Their Students
As our partner in organizing educational travel, we’ve always rewarded group organizers with cash bonuses, EXTRA free trips, and other great benefits.
Teacher Tuesday: How to Customize Your Passports Prezitation
Teacher Tuesday: How to Customize Your Passports Prezitation
March 3-March 7 Lesson Plan Roundup
This week, we continued our focus on Greece, then paused for a moment to create lesson plans that could help teachers explain the current situation with Ukraine and Russia to their students. Classical Greece (4th/5th Cen
Teacher Tuesday: How to Flip Your Classroom, Passports-Style
Teacher Tuesday: How to Flip Your Classroom, Passports-Style
Why Is Passports the Educator's Choice for Student Travel?
The preparation for a student tour begins long before you get on an airplane. It starts in the classroom, with you, the teachers.
A Travel Journal Is the Best Souvenir You Can Create
This process of education through travel does not happen by itself. It happens only with the pro-active, dedicated support of educators that acknowledge the importance of travel.
Educational Travel 101
Your travel journal will become a cherished keepsake you’ll have to look back on after your experience to help you relive those memories again and again.
The English City of York
One of life's maxims that is rarely violated.
10 Fun Facts About Heidelberg Castle
One of the most-visited landmarks in Germany, Heidelberg Castle is a must-see for your student group tour. To make it better, here are some fun facts about the Castle we bet you didn't know!
15 Inspirational Travel Quotes
There's nothing like a famous quote to give you some inspiration for leaving your cares and worries at home and exploring the world. Choose your favorite words to share with your travel group, or come up with your own!
April 21-April 25 Lesson Plan Roundup
We’ve had some great lesson plan requests lately. Keep ‘em coming! Or, submit one of your own. Leonardo da Vinci — Mona Lisa Through the use of various primary and secondary sources, students in this lesson will id
May 5-May 9 Lesson Plan Roundup
passports has covered quite a lot of ground with our lesson plan project the past few months! This week was spent filling in some of the gaps. Keep the suggestions coming! Industrialized Britain - Child Labor and the Sad
Le Beau Voyage
9 Days London 2 • Caen 1 • St. Malo 1 • Loire Valley 1 • Paris 2… join us!
Historical India: Explore the Subcontinent's Forts, Palaces and Monuments
Historical India: Explore the Subcontinent's Forts, Palaces and Monuments
3 Ideas for Your Next Group Tour
Faculty-led group tours are shorter, affordable for most families, and provide travel abroad opportunity for more students. Here are our five favorite itineraries. Pick one of ours, or design your own!
Teacher Tuesday: Advice from a Veteran Group Organizer
Teacher Tuesday: Advice from a Veteran Group Organizer
City Spotlight: Madrid
Beyond Madrid’s grand architectural set pieces, world-class array of museums and cultural attractions, it is the inviting lifestyle that sets Madrid apart.