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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

• 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

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