2016 Spring Travel Recap

The last 6 months have seen new challenges unfold in international educational travel. In many ways, it has provided extra motivation for teachers and students...

Announcing the Winners of our 2016 Teacher Appreciation Week Contest!

For the second year in a row, we were floored by the outpouring of love and appreciation students showed for their teachers in response to our...

Tiramisu – Recipe of the Week

This week we're excited to launch a new initiative on the ACIS Blog: Recipe Wednesdays. Every Wednesday we'll be featuring one of the 17 recipes...

Celebrate Teacher Appreciation Week with a Contest!

Today marks the start of Teacher Appreciation Week! At ACIS, every week is Teacher Appreciation Week, but this week, the rest of the country is...

Student Essay: Why Travel Internationally in Today’s World?

Brenna Bowerman is a student at Mechanicsburg Area Senior High School in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. Her teacher, ACIS Group Leader Michelle Shupp, held an essay contest...

3 TEDTalks on Tolerance

Travel Changes Lives. At ACIS, those three words define what we do every single day. We've documented hundreds of cases of young people's lives being...

[Webinar] How to Host a Global Citizenship Workshop

On March 22, 2016, we hosted a webinar to highlight our Global Citizenship Workshop Lesson Plan. Our Area Administrator Network Director, Liz Rees, was joined...

The ACIS Global Citizen Workshop in Action

Last month, Jill Federschneider and I traveled to Charlotte, NC to speak at Union County Early College High School about Global Citizenship, ACIS and how...

Why I Switched to ACIS Vol. 2: Vive La France!

Natasha Kasprzyk, an English teacher from Chaparral High School in Parker, CO, recently returned from a trip to France with her students. She shares her experience with...

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...