It's Thanksgiving! But before we give thanks and tuck in, let's talk history.
How did Thanksgiving become such an integral part of America's identity? We dug up five useful classroom resources to help you and your students get to the bottom of that question:
No matter where you live in the U.S. - no matter how many football games you watch, or black Friday sales you (barely) survive - the dinner table is the beating heart of Thanksgiving. The image of a family crowded around the table - passing bowls of stuffing, mashed potatoes and various pies while mom or dad ceremoniously carves the turkey - is a portrait of Americana.
Here's how our next-generation online payment portal is going to improve your trip-planning experience:
Last month we shared a beautiful testimonial from Tehya, a student from New York who had wonderful things to say about her recent Jumpstreet school trip to Morocco. Everyone in our office was so moved that we started exchanging some of our own life-changing travel moments; now, we sharing them with you!
Teachers! Parents! Trip-organizers! We just released our 2016 educational tours E-Brochure.
This year's brochure is packed with info about Jumpstreet Tours: our services, our destinations and itineraries, testimonials, and our helpful trip-planning resources forged from 26 years of student travel smarts.
See you on the road!
What does a grade eight class trip to DC, or a French language Quebec City student tour have to do with Yoga? Probably not much in general. However, when I sit in perfect pose I am immediately brought into focus - I am reminded that the world is not about me but if I pay respectful attention I understand that the world wants me to be an integral part of it.
Jumpstreet Tours is about you, the tour organizer. If my business and I pay mindful attention to you, your students, and your community at large by putting you first, then you will want us to be an integral part of your world. This is exactly what we have been doing for 26 years and counting.
Where did summer go? We know it's hard to believe, but school is here and it's time to start thinking about your 2015 class trips.
To help you get started, we've just released our 2015 school tours E-Brochure.
This year's brochure is packed with information about Jumpstreet Tours, our exciting destinations, and our thrilling and enriching itineraries that are changing the game. We're excited for another year of wowing your students with wonderful educational tours, and we hope you are too!
The floodgate
s have opened! As teachers and students from all over North America pour into their motorcoaches to hit the road for their epic spring tour adventure—venturing to the likes of Quebec, New York City and Europe to greet their intrepid Jumpstreet tour leader—I find myself wondering how working for Jumpstreet Tours has impacted my perception of student travel. In many ways, the idea of working for a company that specializes in offering extraordinary educational tours has affected my understanding of travel as a whole. Here are three examples:
Just as we’re finishing our leftovers from Jumpstreet’s Canadian Thanksgiving in October, that sweet aroma of gravy and pie is already wafting in from our neighbours down south! Grab your turkey basters ladies and gentlemen, because US Thanksgiving is here. It’s a good thing we kept our elastic-waist jeans on.
Here are just some of the things for which Jumpstreet is thankful:
