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To gain experience-based insight on garnering excitement for successful student trip fundraising, Teach & Travel asked educators: How do you encourage support for fundraising? Fundraising in our school—as I am sure in most—is very competitive, with many student interest groups competing for the same pool of dollars. It’s easy to have your fundraiser lost in the endless […]

Alcatraz East Crime Museum, in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, has teamed up with the Natalee Holloway Resource Center and Beth Holloway to offer some timely travel safety tips. Fifteen years ago, on May 30, 2005, Beth Holloway’s nightmare began. Her daughter, Natalee Holloway, went missing in Aruba while on a high school senior trip. While the details of […]

Though Huntsville’s most well-known attraction for students is the U.S. Space and Rocket Center, there is a variety of additional ways students could take their learning to new heights. The Huntsville community has a wealth of experiences designed to engage and inspire students of all ages. SCIENCE Students could examine “Butterflies and Bugs” at the Huntsville […]

Jim Gibbons, Band Director at Oxford (Michigan) Community Schools, is no stranger to Mackinac Island. In fact, the educator of 21 years has been taking over 100 seventh- and eighth-grade band students to the yearly Mackinac Music Clinic by Brightspark Travel since 1998, his first year on the job. “I always feel the excitement of […]

What started as an anti-graffiti program in Philadelphia, by artist and educator Jane Golden in 1984, has now grown to be a leading internationally recognized program with over 4,000 works of community-based public art. Today, thanks to Golden and Mural Arts Philadelphia, students could easily see these exceptional works throughout the city. The plan was to […]