Tour Manager Spotlight: Jeff Vanderpool – Greece

Get to know our tour managers, well-traveled and fascinating individuals who make your ACIS experience truly exceptional. Today we’re happy to introduce you to Jeff...

4 Free Apps to Communicate with Parents While On Tour

Encouraging kids to communicate with their parents can be a challenge no matter where they are, but when you're traveling with them in a foreign...

Teacher Spotlight: Jean-François Henley – Old Westbury, New York

Jean-François Henley is a French teacher at The Wheatley School in Old Westbury, New York, and an ACIS Group Leader. He recently returned from his...

Student Spotlight: Emily Franco, ACIS Student Ambassador

Emily Franco is a student at Henderson High School in West Chester, Pennsylvania. When her Spanish teacher, Marion Jackson, gained approval from her administration to...

How to Take Great Travel Photos – A Professional Photographer’s Guide

This guest post was contributed by Marc Goodwin, an architectural photographer, digital media instructor and ACIS tour manager from 2003-2011. He was born in London...

10 World-Class Museums You Can Visit Online

Visiting world-famous museums is one of the most enticing aspects of traveling abroad. Works of art you've only seen in text books are right in...

Travel Scholarship Winners – 2016

Every year at ACIS, we give away scholarships to high school and middle school students to help with the financial cost of going abroad with...

Why I Switched to ACIS: A Group Leader’s First-Hand Account

Greetings from Denver, Colorado! My name is Natasha Kasprzyk, and I’ve been an English teacher for the past 12 years. Currently, my home-away-from-home is Chaparral...

Ljubljana 2016 – Global Conference Review

This guest post was contributed by Ron and Cheryl Sohner, from Hilliard, Ohio. Cheryl is a foreign language teacher with many years of travel experience...

How to Speak a Foreign Language While Traveling Abroad

This post was contributed by Kate Webb, an ACIS Tour Manager and English Teacher based in Paris, France. When traveling in a foreign country, you...