By Shawn McCarty & Yessenia Gutierrez in collaboration with GEEO Hello, teachers! We are Shawn and Yessenia, fifth and third grade teachers at Hoover Elementary and TEAM Charter School in Stockton, California. As fellow GEEO travelers, we’d like to share a great resource available to you for funding and sponsoring your professional development programs abroad […]
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We all have that one place in the world that we dream of seeing with our own eyes and experiencing firsthand. While GEEO offers teacher travel programs in dozens of countries around the world, we don’t cover it all every year. If you don’t see your destination on our current program list, you can always […]
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November 18-22 is International Education Week in the United States. The US Department of State and Department of Education have partnered to give some great suggestions on how K-12 teachers can incorporate international education into their classrooms. Read on for their ideas as well as GEEO’s suggestions on how to implement each one. 1. Incorporate […]
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The entire school community at Truman Primary School in Norman, Oklahoma is traveling to Jordan this year. “Armchair traveling,” that is. Students and staff alike are immersed in a new world of Jordanian culture, history, and art, and they don’t even have to leave Oklahoma. This is all thanks to one teacher who traveled to […]
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There’s no denying the educational value and reinvigoration that teachers gain out of traveling with GEEO. Investing in your own education, professional development, sense of wonder, and personal joy is so worth it! Just ask our thousands of alumni. While our travel programs are already discounted for educators, we know that saving money to travel […]
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