{"id":6161,"date":"2016-03-21T10:54:43","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T14:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/?p=6161"},"modified":"2016-01-21T11:55:13","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T16:55:13","slug":"group-leader-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/group-leader-christian","title":{"rendered":"Group Leader Spotlight: Christian"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Christian,<\/a>

Christian, history teacher<\/p><\/div>\n

Christian never dreamed she\u2019d be able\u00a0to travel with her students. \u201cI work at\u00a0a special needs school,\u201d she explains.\u00a0\u201cOur students are high functioning, but\u00a0not everything in a standard catalog\u00a0tour makes sense for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

She researched a number of different\u00a0companies and became frustrated that their\u00a0itineraries were completely set. \u201cMany of our kids\u00a0are severely ADHD or on the autism spectrum. I\u00a0didn\u2019t like that we\u2019d be locked in to spending a certain\u00a0amount of time in each place\u2014like several hours in a\u00a0museum, for example. When I visited the Explorica\u00a0website, I found that not only could I change the\u00a0activities, but the prices were better, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

Christian used the Instant Tour Customizer to create\u00a0her perfect trip, and began signing up students. \u201cMy\u00a0rep helped me with recruitment, and the training trip\u00a0gave me a sense for what to expect,\u201d she says. \u201cBut\u00a0the tour director is what really made my experience\u00a0remarkable.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were in Alc\u00e1zar Castle,\u201d she recalls, \u201cand our tour\u00a0director could tell the tile work and architecture wasn\u2019t\u00a0holding my group\u2019s attention. So she switched gears\u00a0and started talking about how the fortress was featured\u00a0in \u201cGame of Thrones.\u201d The kids were enthralled and\u00a0suddenly it became real to them where they were. In\u00a0Madrid, my kids saw posters for a bull fight and began\u00a0asking if they could go. I didn\u2019t think we could do\u00a0something like that on the fly, but our tour director\u00a0arranged a tour of the arena for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Christian says it\u2019s the same on each of the Explorica\u00a0tours she has led. \u201cI love that the tour directors come\u00a0up to you and say, \u2018look, we might have extra time\u00a0today. Was there something else you wanted to do\u00a0here?\u2019 Or \u2018I think your students might enjoy this other\u00a0thing instead.\u2019 And they\u2019re always right,\u201d Christian says.\u00a0\u201cWith Explorica, it\u2019s a true partnership.\u201d<\/p>\n

Customize your own Explorica educational tour\u00a0by visiting explorica.com\/customize<\/a><\/strong> or call 1.888.310.7120<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Christian never dreamed she\u2019d be able\u00a0to travel with her students. \u201cI work at\u00a0a special needs school,\u201d she explains.\u00a0\u201cOur students are high functioning, but\u00a0not everything in a standard catalog\u00a0tour makes sense for us.\u201d She researched a number of different\u00a0companies and became frustrated that their\u00a0itineraries were completely set. \u201cMany of our kids\u00a0are severely ADHD or on the Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[58,128,12],"class_list":["post-6161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-explorica-news","tag-educational-travel","tag-student-travel","tag-travel-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6163,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6161\/revisions\/6163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}