Refer a new teacher to travel and reap the rewards!
You know the power that educational student travel has on students—here's your chance to spread that impact to even more students at your school and in neighboring schools throughout your area. When you refer a new teacher to travel with WorldStrides, not only are you helping make an impact on more students, you'll receive the following great rewards:
- 25 Rewards Points for each valid referral you submit
- 250 Rewards Points when a referral starts their trip promotion
- 500 Rewards Points when a referral gets their first 5 students signed up for their trip
Bonus: To help make travel possible, your referrals will receive a $1,000 scholarship to use toward their first WorldStrides Travel Program.
Tips for Referring Like a Pro
Speak with each referral (whether another educator or an individual student) before passing their name along to us. It's super important that your referrals hear your own personal stories!
- Tell each referral how much you love traveling with WorldStrides
- Convey how fun and inspiring your trips are for your students
- Let them know how easy WorldStrides makes it to travel
- And, most importantly, let them know we'll be reaching out to help them get started
What Happens with Your Teacher Referrals
When you pass along the name of another teacher to lead a travel program, we'll assign them to one of our Travel Specialists who will reach out to those referrals by phone. Our specialists will let your referral know that you provided their information to WorldStrides and then help that teacher get a travel program started in their school. A Travel Specialist will be sure to share the great news that your referrals will receive a $1,000 scholarship to use toward their first WorldStrides trip.
What Makes a Great Teacher Referral
Here are a few things to keep in mind when introducing new teachers to educational travel:
- Think Like You: The best teachers to lead travel programs are just like you—passionate, energetic, and well-liked by their students and peers. Teachers who travel on their own or with their friends and family make great candidates to lead travel programs for their students, too.
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Branch Out: Think outside your school. Since you already have a program at your school, you'll want to think of an educator at a neighboring school in your community. Don't limit yourself to teachers in just one field! WorldStrides has programs available for all types of teachers:
U.S. History
Our History programs allow students to relive the past and see with their own eyes many of the sights and locations that shaped where our nation is today. From seeing where the Constitution was signed in Philadelphia to standing on the steps of the U.S. Capitol to panning for gold in California, these programs bring your history to life for your students.
STEM
Our STEM tours take science off the page, out of the lab, and into the real world. They connect students with the natural world, from seeing moose in Alaska and manatees in Florida to admiring the bioluminescent bays in Puerto Rico and exploring the Kennedy Space Center in Houston.
Performing Arts
There's truly nothing like immersion to bring a language to life. To do that, we offer language study tours that can be customized in over 40 different countries across seven language targets: Arabic, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, and Spanish. Programs can include homestays to further elevate the immersion factor.
Language Study
There's truly nothing like immersion to bring a language to life. To do that, we offer language study tours that can be customized in over 40 different countries across seven language targets: Arabic, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, and Spanish. Programs can include homestays to further elevate the immersion factor.
World History
In addition to world language, we also offer hundreds of programs that provide a deep dive into the history and culture of countries and civilizations all around the world. Many of these programs also offer service-learning aspects to further enhance the learning experience.
Sports
Our Sports tours empower teams to share their love of their game with new friends in new places. Through friendly matches with local teams, guest training sessions, touring world-renown facilities, and great sightseeing, these programs create a new standard of sports travel for any team ranging from soccer and lacrosse to baseball, volleyball, and basketball.
- Stay Connected: We encourage you to keep in contact with your referrals throughout the process—they may have questions you can answer along the way, and staying connected means there's a greater chance your Rewards Points will grow. If one of your referrals starts a travel program, you'll be the first to know and congratulate them!
Leverage Your Social Network
Social media can be a powerful tool in reaching out to teachers in your network. To help, we’ve created a fun new graphic you can share on your social platforms. Click here to download this graphic. And when sharing, we recommend posting the following text:
Want to know more about group travel for your class, team, or ensemble? I’d love to connect and refer you to WorldStrides! They make travel easy and have programs for EVERYONE—history, STEM, performing arts, language studies, sports…Plus, as a referral, you’ll earn a $1,000 scholarship to support your first trip! Let’s chat 😊.
