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Happy Valentine's Day from WorldStrides, to you! 🌍 🌹 💙 Send these V-Day cards to your favorite travel companions! ✈️ What's your favorite V-Day travel pun? 😂

Travel tip for 2025 🌎 ✈️ Planning a trip with WorldStrides this spring? A quick reminder that adult travelers will need a Real ID for domestic flights or federal building access starting May 7. Don’t let this requirement catch you by surprise—start planning today! Learn more: dhs.gov/real-id

✨ Get Started with WorldStrides in Washington, D.C. ✨ Join us for a free webinar on Wednesday, February 19, at 7 PM EST, featuring Dilcia Stephens, a Field Specialist Leader, and Nicole Prout, an On-Site Coordinator Leader, and David Shaw, Course Leader. They’ll walk you through the ins-and-outs of planning a trip to D.C. and all the different roles you get with a WorldStrides experience. They’ll share: ✅ How the team problem solves in the moment ✅ How they handle whatever issues come up ✅ Their experiences with hundreds of teachers and students Save your spot today: https://bit.ly/4gxhbTG Can’t make it live? Register anyway, and we’ll send you the recording! #EducationalTravel #TeacherWebinar #WorldStrides #FreeTeacherTravel

What a fun, full-circle moment! 🇦🇺 🐠 🤙 Jazzy studied abroad with us in Australia where she got to further her research in marine biology and explore the Great Barrier Reef! Now she's officially graduated with a BS in Marine and Environmental Biology and is off to get her Masters in Marine Biology at James Cook University in Australia! We're thrilled to have been a part of her journey. Interested in studying abroad? Learn more at teanabroad.org!

Trailblazer Bessie Coleman! ✈️ 🌎 💡 This Black History Month, we honor the incredible Bessie Coleman—the first African American woman to earn a pilot’s license. In the 1920s, getting a pilot's license as a Black woman in the United States was impossible; so Coleman moved to France to get her flying certification. On June 15, 1921, Coleman achieved her goal—making history as the first African American woman to earn a pilot's license! Her determination and courage inspire us to aim high and explore new horizons—both in the air and in life. 🛫 💙 Learn more about Coleman's legacy here! https://s.si.edu/3HShvON Photo source: National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution

🚍✨ Get a Teacher’s Take on Educational Travel! ✨📚 Join us for a free webinar on Tuesday, Feb 4, from 7-8 PM ET, featuring Kenny Fenchel, a retired 8th-grade history teacher with 25+ years of experience and a seasoned WorldStrides traveler! 🌍 Kenny will share: ✅ How he got started with student travel ✅ How teachers can travel for free ✅ How WorldStrides handles all the planning 📌 Save your spot today: https://lnkd.in/gzhHK92i Can’t make it live? Register anyway, and we’ll send you the recording! 🎥 📩 #EducationalTravel #TeacherWebinar #WorldStrides #FreeTeacherTravel

Happy Lunar New Year! 🎉 🌙 🎇 🐍🏮 🍢🐲💰 🍊 Celebrated across many Asian cultures, today marks a fresh start based on the lunar calendar. In 2025, we welcome the Year of the Wood Snake, symbolizing wisdom, transformation, and creativity. Whether you celebrate or not, it’s a great time to learn and appreciate. We hope you enjoy these Lunar New Year fun facts & traditions! 💫 🐉 Want to learn more? Head here! https://bit.ly/3E3enjJ

Today, we honor the memory of the millions of lives lost during the Holocaust. By learning their stories and confronting the past, we're committed to recognizing the critical lessons of Holocaust history while commemorating the victims and honoring the survivors. Did you know an estimate of 245,000 survivors are alive today and living across more than 90 countries? Learn more about some of the survivors and their stories here: https://lnkd.in/eHHXiiaX #HolocaustRemembranceDay #InternationalHolocaustRemembranceDay

In honor of #InternationalDayofEducation, we're proud to support the goal of education as "a human right, a public good and a public responsibility," - United Nations. Our innovative approach to elevating learning on tour has earned us national accreditation and helped to ignite growth for millions of students over more than 50 years. Using LEAP (Learning through Exploration and Active Participation)—our own unique learning philosophy rooted in more than 50 years of educational travel and experiential learning—we ensure that students are actively engaging with the sites they visit, absorbing their surroundings, and thinking deeply about the concepts that relate both to their destination and to their home communities. Learn more about our LEAP philosophy, here! https://bit.ly/3aH2HRV

Building Meaningful Partnerships That Last has been my motto going into 2025, and this past week very much embodied that idea! The temperature was below freezing the entire time (often by a lot! 🥶), but what a fabulous and stimulating few days visiting three of our WorldStrides Higher Ed Embedded Offices. 🐎 I started the week at our oldest Embedded Office at the University of Kentucky, now entering its 13th year! Sarah Warren, our Director based on campus, is an emerging Thought Leader in our field who never fails to impress me. Thank you for setting up a wonderful day of meetings, and for letting me crash the Education Abroad Fair, where we sponsored a hot chocolate bar - handy on a very cold day. ☕️ I love Kentucky! 🤝 At Ohio University, I got to welcome our new Embedded Regional Director Ryan Rieder (already off to a great start!), have some wonderful conversations and even got to meet the impressive President, Lori Stewart Gonzales. 🏈 At The Ohio State University, we celebrated the Embedded Office sixth month anniversary with some fantastic conversations all across campus. Thank you to the amazing Mack Conlon, MBA! I always leave The Ohio State University Office of International Affairs stimulated with lots of new ideas for collaboration that change student lives - and sore from all the laughter. What a great team! ⏭️ It’s not even February, but I’m already feeling great about the road ahead in 2025. ‘Tis the Year of Sustainable Partnerships, coming soon to a campus near you! Onward!! #studyabroad #educationabroad #nafsa #ohiostate #kentucky #highered #partnership