Hear from Mark Pim, a teacher at Springbrook High School, about the transformative benefits of service learning trips. Discover how these experiences shape students' futures.
We interviewed Rustic Alumna, Katie Gruber who shared her awesome experience on our Turtle Conservation Project. Watch the full interview here!
It's been many years since Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, but some communities never fully recovered. Students from Southern California learned why during a week designed for lessons outside the classroom.
Stanford University professors have found an extraordinarily effective way to help people understand different points of view. This groundbreaking process will be shared with Rustic Pathways students from 25 countries who'll be participating in the Global Youth Climate Summit.
The best travel stories often come after simple moments - a friendly encounter with a local resident, an unexpected project success, time viewing a stunning landscape. After years of gathering these stories, Rustic shares seven transformational travel moments that showcase how student travel can create lifelong memories.
Learn everything you need to know about your destination country, from cultural expectations to fun facts and foods you'll eat, in our country books.
This can be the first step in your own anti-racist education or a tool to help you leverage the power you have with friends, family, in your neighborhood, and at school. Think of it as an intro course, something to get the ball rolling. And when you’re done with our list, keep going!
A good place to start is to understand what you’re trying to accomplish, and work to find which programs and community partners will allow for the most meaningful cross-cultural learning. Global programming lends a boost to any thematic curriculum if you can draw creative parallels and have a good understanding of your intended learning moments.
Taking students out of the classroom and pulling them into real-world, low-risk, high-outcome situations is an effective way to increase the efficacy and provide opportunities for application of classroom learning.
Schools with integrated education models point to Leadership as one of the skill sets necessary to develop well-rounded students. Separating leadership development from the dynamics of school culture and community power structures can allow for students to see practical and organic applications of leadership in the real world, sometimes more clearly than in their own home contexts.
Privilege is a difficult concept to discuss with students, especially while they’re in their home environments. The many layers and dimensions make it an uncomfortably ambiguous conversation, and even harder for students to deduce what they can do with this complex new understanding of self.
Find out how one educator worked with Rustic Pathways Group Travel to customize the perfect trip for his biology curriculum and his students' needs.
Read part 2 of our series about how Rustic Pathways staff members reconnected with their roots after leading our programs in Latin America.
Learn how to say hello, goodbye, please, and thank you in multiple languages. This guide covers global phrases and cultural tips for respectful travel.
Providing your teen with a culturally-immersive international travel experience is the best investment you can make as a parent. Read about how stepping outside of their comfort zone and daring to participate in a student travel program can benefit your teen.
Start a post-travel conversation these open-ended questions to encourage students to reflect on their experiences.
Prepare your students for their upcoming trip with these open-ended questions to get your students to think broadly and exercise their travel brains.
One of the many benefits of exposing students to the target culture is the learning that continues in the classroom when you return.
The stories my seventh-grade teacher shared with the class were some of the reasons I was inspired to teach. She made me wonder if maybe teaching wasn’t such a bad gig.