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...

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...