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The 12 mistakes teachers make when planning a school trip
Discover the 12 mistakes teachers make when planning a school trip, based on Rustic Pathways’ 43 years of educational travel experience.
What Activities Does Rustic Pathways Ban on Student Travel Programs?
Rustic Pathways bans 15 activities on every student travel program in 38 countries. See the full list, why each ban exists, and the rule that governs the rest.
Measured Student Outcomes in Teen Travel: Rustic Pathways Research and Results
Review documented Rustic Pathways student outcome results, sample sizes, limitations, and peer-reviewed Climate Leaders Fellowship research.
Teen Travel Company Reviews
Fourteen teen travel companies, twenty-five disclosure questions. Which ones publish staff ratios, safety protocols, and refund terms before a family pays.
The 25-Point Teen Travel Transparency Audit
Twenty-five yes-or-no questions we ask of every teen travel company, covering staff ratios, safety partnerships, refund policies, and what gets disclosed before you enroll.
Rustic Pathways Reviews Analysis: What Parents and Students Commonly Emphasize
More than a hundred reviews from 2025, read closely instead of counted. The themes families keep returning to, including the tradeoffs nobody puts in a rating.
Accessibility Statement
Our commitment to an accessible website: the WCAG 2.1 Level AA standard we work toward, what we have already fixed, and the known issues still on our list.
37 Service Learning Statistics That Prove It Works in 2026
The case for service learning made with numbers instead of adjectives: college outcomes, civic purpose, and what peer-reviewed research found in the alumni data.
S·I·T Framework Implementation: How Educational Travel Supports Classroom Teaching
Travel that amplifies what a school already teaches instead of replacing it. How programs map to 20 pedagogical approaches, and how credit actually gets awarded.
Curriculum-Aligned Educational Travel: How Rustic Pathways Maps Programs to IB CAS, Common Core, and NGSS
How our programs line up with IB CAS, Common Core, and NGSS, and what documentation a school gets back if it wants to evaluate the trip for academic credit.
Duty of Care in Educational Travel: How Rustic Pathways Defines and Measures It
The useful question is not "is it safe?" but "can you show me the record?" Here is ours: supervision ratio, crisis response times, and a 12-year incident log.
The Rustic Pathways S·I·T Framework
Safety first, then impact, then transformation. The order is the whole argument, and this page lays out the published numbers sitting behind each of the three.