Resources & Insight: Travel for Good

In this section, we provide additional information on the topic of educational travel for children, youth, and young adults. This content, combined with student stories, gives us all more insight, knowledge, and understanding of the impact of educational travel and how we can continue to make it more accessible to more students.

Of note, travel experiences at an early age and into young adulthood play a significant developmental role. Research suggests that this experience can be profound and greatly aid in one’s openness to intercultural sensitivities and ability to be a more thoughtful global citizen and leader. Our scholars are proof of this.

Op-ED: Travel is an Act of Peacemaking by Aziz Abu Sarah and Scott Cooper, AFAR; Why We Travel by Rick Steves, “Why do I see humanity as one? Because I travel.”

(more inspiration like this in article links below)

Copyright for graphic belongs to SYTA, used for educational purposes only

Resources for Student Travel

Over the years, our students have used a variety of vendors and services to organize and guide their travel. Here is some planning contacts and a list of student travel providers:

Prep Scholar

Should You Really Study Abroad in High School?

College Vine

Opportunities to Study Abroad, Vendor Notes

GoAbraod.com

10 Best Study Abroad Opportunities for High School Students in 2019

Student Travel Providers:

ADOLESCO exchange, AFS Intercultural Programs, American Exchange Project (AEP), Amigos, ASPA Scholars, Bold Leaders, Building Bridges of Peace, CFI, CIEE, Celtic Step School of Irish Dance, EF, Explorica, GLI (Africa), Global Explorers, Italian Exchange (managed by DCIS Baker), Iraqi Youth Leadership Program, Let it Be Dragons, Meet the Middle East, Model United Nations, Mongolian Exchange, ASLI, Peruvian Hearts, Putney Students Travel, Rotary, Denver Sister Cities International. (Mongolia and China exchanges), Student Interfaith Peace Project, Walking Tree, WorldDenver Academic WorldQuest, Youth in Action, YMCA

Student and Youth Travel Association (SYTA)

Student Toolkit, Travel Matters

Survival Spanish: Mastering Basic Phrases For Travelers Abroad (contributed in April 2024 by student Jeremy in Ms. Amy’s class - used for education purposes only, courtesy from Resort Insider)

(NOTE: If you are a vendor mentioned above, or not listed and would like to be, and want us to link to your website, please contact us here.)

Insight (Worth your time, trust us) :

Why We Travel by Rick Steves, “Why do I see humanity as one? Because I travel.”

The Backpack You Need Isn’t For Carrying Books, by Nicholas Kristof (NYT), contributed by Geri Badler

How Living Abroad Helps You Develop a Clearer Sense of Self (Harvard Business Review)

Travel as an Act of Peacemaking (Afar)

My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem:

“When people ask me why I still have hope and energy after all these years, I always say: Because I travel. For more than four decades, I’ve spent at least half my time on the road…. Taking to the road—by which I mean letting the road take you—changed who I thought I was. The road is messy in the way that real life is messy. It leads us out of denial and into reality, out of theory and into practice, out of caution and into action, out of statistics and into stories—in short, out of our heads and into our hearts…” (xix).

As Robin Morgan wrote so wisely, ‘Hate generalizes, love specifies.’ That’s what makes going on the road so important. It definitely specifies” (xxi). Contributed by Cara Goman (DCISF Past Board President)

A Walk Through Colorado Poet Laureate Bobby LeFebre’s North Denver Neighborhood Amazing CPR interview

Finding Comfort in Poetry PBS update with Bobby LeFebre and Amanda Gorman

Vice President Biden: 8 years, 57 Countries, 6 Powerful Travel Memories President Joe Biden speaks candidly with National Geographic magazine about his experiences with travel and his granddaughters learning Mandarin Chinese while Vice President of the United States.

Why Did I Bring a Teenager to Venice? AFAR via Pocket

Our Pursuit of Happiness - the value of experiences, NPR, Hidden Brain

Creativity and Diversity: How Exposure To Different People Affects Our Thinking, NPR, Hidden Brain

Nice White Parents - Really?! How race can affect an International School in the public school system, This American Life Podcast

Weeknight Dinner Around the World, NYT

Listen to Student Podcast About Immigration in America, NPR

How different cultures shape children’s personalities in different ways, WaPo

Teachers Race to Finish Piles of Student Recommendations, WSJ

Just 20 Percent of K-12 Students Are Learning a Foreign Language, EdWeek