Teach & Travel

Abigail Hamman, a senior from Murray County Central High School, wrote this first-place essay for the SYTA Class of 2020 essay contest. What was a favorite memory of your high school senior year? The answer to this question for many is probably their senior class trip. I am a 2020 high school graduate. I graduated […]

Educators are key players in giving students the opportunity to venture to places they’ve never been and seeing the world from a whole new perspective. That’s why in every issue of Teach & Travel, you’ll find an educator profile—showcasing an educator who has traveled with students! From an educator who found the passion for student […]

We arrived at Raleigh-Durham Airport full of excitement: Our college group was headed to Costa Rica for eight days! The plan was to fly into San Jose and begin our sightseeing. Due to a mechanical issue, our flight was delayed. By the time we arrived in Atlanta, we missed our connecting flight. Delta added our […]

Textbooks are full of detailed descriptions and imagery depicting important events of our past. While they’re invaluable learning tools, nothing replaces experiencing the real thing. Taking students to specific locations—to stand where the historic figures they read about once stood—brings learning to the next level. Some say there’s an energy that lingers around places that […]

SYTA Member tour operators selected 10 locations as the Top International Travel Destinations favored by students and teachers. NO. 1 ITALY “You may have the universe if I may have Italy,” wrote Giuseppe Verdi in his opera Attila. Italy has been at the center of history, art and culture since antiquity—and its artistic and cultural heritage […]