Our mission is to foster global citizenship and holistic student development by providing a transformative virtual educational experience that empowers students to flourish and families to travel the world.

Our Mission

What are we?

Not a school...
"What's a Learning Collective?"

Col·​lec·​tive | kə-ˈlek-tiv | noun: A collective is a group of entities that share or are motivated by at least one common issue or interest, or work together to achieve a common objective.

Our Common Objective: creating an environment where student curiosity has permission to flourish and lead us in explorative learning.

We're a Learning Collective.

Independently

Each student will have their own independent study plan. This plan will be co-created among parent, student, and an academic guide during our application and onboarding process, and will be designed to account for both academics and your travel plans. While traveling, students meet with their academic guide regularly to continuously deepen their learning, evaluate their progress, and modify their personal plan as needed.

Together

At the core of our learning collective is a cohort of up to six students. The students of this cohort connect with each other online through collaborative digital spaces and in regular live virtual learning sessions that are designed to create engagement, social connection, and a sense of ownership in their learning. Outside of these sessions, students interact in a communal virtual space that allows them to share their work and their travel experiences.

Independently

Students participating in our Academic Mentorship Program stay engaged in their academic growth through a comprehensive, self-directed independent study plan designed to be easy for a student to follow. This plan will be co-created among parent, student, and an academic guide during our application and onboarding process, and will be designed to account for both academics and your travel plans. Students meet with their academic guide as much as needed to continuously deepen their learning, evaluate their progress, and modify their personal plan as needed.

Together

At the core of our collective are our Learning Collective Members. Members join a cohort of up to six students who connect with each other online through collaborative digital spaces and in regular live virtual learning sessions that are designed to create engagement, social connection, and a sense of ownership in their learning. Outside of these sessions, students interact in a communal virtual space that allows them to share what they're learning and their travel experiences.

A Day with The Travelers' Learning Collective

Picture this: A morning walk to the panadería, pâtisserie, or pekara for breakfast before returning to your temporary home where it's time to join our virtual class session. During check-in students share about their latest unique experiences and adventures in their respective locales. Today it's one student's turn to present their video project on local ecology to the class. This segues into a discussion and standards-aligned science activity on keystone species, ending in a persuasive-writing assignment proposing a conservation initiative relevant to the place each student is visiting. After 'class' students stay online to work independently on their individualized math track, with peers and a guide available for tutoring. When lunchtime arrives the 'part time' kids say goodbye and setoff for an afternoon adventure, while the 'full time' students break to eat and prepare for their afternoon session. The student who presented their project stays on for their bi-weekly meeting to review their progress and to choose a new project. Plenty of daylight remains before sundown to take a family adventure. Returning home, the kids logon to our collective's virtual forum to post about their outing and comment on other students' posts before heading back out for dinner.

Our Core Offerings:

Academic mentorship and academic guide
Academic mentorship and academic guide

Academic mentorship is one of the central pillars of our offering. Students participating in our academic mentorship program attend 1-on-1 sessions with their academic mentor (at least once and up to four days per week) to review their academic progress, receive feedback on work, formulate project-based learning assignments, deepen their knowledge, and evaluate the success of their learning plan to calibrate it as needed. These sessions are typically scheduled for 60-90 minutes.

Live virtual small group learning
Live virtual small group learning

This is the core synchronous learning offering of our learning collective and the other central pillar of what we do. It is in these sessions that the bulk of our core content exploration, collaboration, and socialization occurs. These sessions utilize a method that aims to inspire curiosity, equip students to follow it, help them contextualize and connect the knowledge they gain, and work together in the pursuit of this.

Academic Mentorship

Live Virtual Small Group Learning

The dream of truly personalized education has been around for decades, but only recently have the technology tools grown up to allow this dream to become a reality. For families who want it, we will select best-fit adaptive learning platforms for progressing through math and/or literacy standards, and administer this solution as part of our academic mentorship program.

Adaptive Instruction for Math and Literacy

Adaptive learning technologies
Adaptive learning technologies
Computer-based learning
Computer-based learning

Virtual Study Hall

Opportunities will be offered for students to join synchronous sessions that focus on independent work, but with the available resources of a facilitator and other students present to help, share, or collaborate. This is also helpful in creating the structure of a focused, somewhat-monitored work-block for students, and creates an opportunity for the facilitator to provide guidance as needed.

Online tutoring
Online tutoring

Tutoring

As needed, subject-specific private tutoring can be offered to supplement independent learning. These sessions most-likely are to be utilized by 'full-time' students on subjects such as math, writing, and foreign languages. Tutoring may be private (1-on-1) or small-group depending on the levels/needs of students.

Project-based learning (PBL)
Project-based learning (PBL)

Project-Based Learning

Video projects, podcast episodes, photo journals, research essays, artwork, slideshow presentations... We encourage our students to gain capacity in sharing knowledge and experience in many different ways. The subject or focus of these projects is decided-upon with input from students in our academic mentorship meetings and aims to immerse the student in the places they're visiting.

Our Core Offerings:

Academic mentorship and academic guide
Academic mentorship and academic guide

Academic mentorship is one of the central pillars of our offering. Students participating in our academic mentorship program attend 1-on-1 sessions with their academic mentor (at least once and up to four days per week) to review their academic progress, receive feedback on work, formulate project-based learning assignments, deepen their knowledge, and evaluate the success of their learning plan to calibrate it as needed. These sessions are typically scheduled for 60-90 minutes.

Live virtual small group learning
Live virtual small group learning

This is the core synchronous learning offering of our learning collective and the other central pillar of what we do. It is in these sessions that the bulk of our core content exploration, collaboration, and socialization occurs. These sessions utilize a method that aims to inspire curiosity, equip students to follow it, help them contextualize and connect the knowledge they gain, and work together in the pursuit of this.

Academic Mentorship

Live Virtual Small-Group Learning

The dream of truly personalized education has been around for decades, but only recently have the technology tools grown up to allow this dream to become a reality. For families who want it, we will select best-fit adaptive learning platforms for progressing through math and/or literacy standards, and administer this solution as part of our academic mentorship program.

Access to our Suite of Learning Apps

Computer-based learning
Computer-based learning

Virtual Study Hall Sessions

Opportunities exist for students to join synchronous sessions that focus on independent work, but with the available resources of a facilitator and other students present to help, share, or collaborate. This is also helpful in creating the structure of a focused, somewhat-monitored work-block for students, and creates an opportunity for the facilitator to provide guidance as needed.

Online tutoring
Online tutoring

Subject-specific Tutoring

As needed, subject-specific private tutoring can be offered to supplement independent learning. These sessions most-likely are to be utilized by 'full-time' students on subjects such as math, writing, and foreign languages. Tutoring may be private (1-on-1) or small-group depending on the levels/needs of students.

Project-based learning (PBL)
Project-based learning (PBL)

Project-Based Learning Assigments

The Travelers Learning Collective hosts a virtual social club for kids ages 8-14. This club includes access to a virtual space for students to explore, video chat, play games, and do structured activities together. This offering is open to both guests and TLC members.

If you are interested in receiving access to attend these events, sign up for our mailing list below!

Virtual Social Club

Members Also Get:

Video projects, podcast episodes, photo journals, research essays, artwork, slideshow presentations... We encourage our students to gain capacity in sharing knowledge and experience in many different ways. The subject or focus of these projects is decided-upon with input from students in our academic mentorship meetings and aims to immerse the student in the places they're visiting.

Planning for traveling and learning
Planning for traveling and learning

Our Offerings and Pricing

Ideal for those seeking supplementary social & educational engagement with other students of worldschooling families.

Includes:

  • 75-min, live small-group (up to 6) sessions designed to be fun and engaging

  • Project-based learning (PBL) Assignments

  • Member access to Travelers Learning Social Club events

Keep your student(s) engaged and on-track with their core subject growth. Scaled to achieve the education goals you have for your child.

Includes:

  • Regular 1-on-1 academic mentorship sessions

  • Personalized independent study plan optimized to your student

  • Use of some of the best educational technology platforms, and many more optional add-ons!

Ready to take the next step?

Plans are customizable and flexible based on your student's needs and your travel plans. Let's connect to clarify what works best for you and fits with us.

Starting at $15/session

Starting at $75/week

Learning Collective Sessions Membership

Academic Mentorship Program Membership

Save when you sign up for both!

About the Founder

Hi there. I'm Daniel Kingsbook, and I am utterly fascinated by the stories of our world and humankind. So, to feed my curiosity and hunger for experience I've become an educator and world traveler.

There are few things that bring me as much joy as the experience of helping others discover and learn about the world - from its physical attributes, to the stories of the people inhabiting it, to how things in the past have caused it to be how it is in the present.

The mission and model of this learning collective draws upon my varied experiences, including: teaching in public schools, consulting tech companies with remote workforces, conducting cognitive neuroscience research, writing standards-aligned K-12 curriculum, and various forms of tutoring and small group teaching. The Travelers Learning Collective is the product of synthesizing these experiences into an offering that I wish I could've have had when I was a kid and that I hope will make for an epically-memorable life chapter for yours.

Founder Daniel Kingsbook
Founder Daniel Kingsbook

Basic Bio:

  • Grew up in Oakland, CA. Lives in Santa Cruz, CA (when not traveling).

  • Graduated from UC Santa Cruz with a degree in Biology.

  • Traveled in 20 countries across 4 continents on ~20 trips, totaling over 2 years of time.

  • Extensive experience with teaching, tutoring, studying how people learn best across a variety of vocations.

  • Avid surfer, waterman, ocean-lover, and nature-enthusiast


See more on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielkingsbook/

TOGETHER

INDEPENDENTLY

At the core of our learning collective is a cohort of up to six students. The students of this cohort connect with each other online through collaborative digital spaces and in regular live virtual learning sessions that are designed to create engagement, social connection, and a sense of ownership in their learning. Outside of these sessions, students interact in a communal virtual space that allows them to share their work and their travel experiences.

Each student will have their own independent study plan. This plan will be co-created among parent, student, and an academic mentor during our application and onboarding process, and will be designed to account for both academics and your travel plans. While traveling, students meet with their academic mentor regularly to continuously deepen their learning, evaluate their progress, and modify their personal plan as needed.

A Day with The Travelers' Learning Collective

Picture this: A morning walk to the panadería, pâtisserie, or pekara for breakfast before returning to your temporary home where it's time to join our virtual class session. During check-in students share about their latest unique experiences and adventures in their respective locales. Today it's one student's turn to present their video project on local ecology to the class. This segues into a discussion and standards-aligned science activity on keystone species, ending in a persuasive-writing assignment proposing a conservation initiative relevant to the place each student is visiting. After 'class' students stay online to work independently on their individualized math track, with peers and a guide available for tutoring. When lunchtime arrives the 'part time' kids say goodbye and setoff for an afternoon adventure, while the 'full time' students break to eat and prepare for their afternoon session. The student who presented their project stays on for their bi-weekly meeting to review their progress and to choose a new project. Plenty of daylight remains before sundown to take a hike, explore town, or get in a surf session. Returning home, the kids logon to our collective's virtual forum to post about their outing and comment on other students' posts before heading back out for dinner.

Remote learning collective
Remote learning collective
Planning for traveling and learning
Planning for traveling and learning
  • In our initial meetings we will outline a customized Learning Plan for your student based on their educational needs and your travel plans.

  • Plans and pricing can change during the course of a student's involvement in the learning collective to reflect an increase or decrease in services and adapt to the circumstances of your travels.

  • Plans will be implemented and billed on a 2-week basis, allowing for flexibility to modify for travel.

  • As a general guide, as of Spring 2023, part time students might expect to pay $150+/week and full time students might expect to pay approximately $250+/week.

  • Schedule a discovery call so we can cover more details about how leaning plans and pricing might work for us.

Plans and Pricing

Part-time plan
Part-time plan
Basic Plan
Basic Plan
Full-time plan
Full-time plan

Which plan fits your travels and your student's education?

It starts here!

Use this form to share a bit about your plans and student(s). We'll reach out.

Let's connect to explore sharing your journey together!