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Every year, the National PTA<\/a> celebrates Teacher Appreciation week\u2014spending a whole week celebrating the many, many ways teachers affect our lives. May 8th kicks off\u00a0Teacher Appreciation Week 2017, and here at Explorica, this is our favorite week of the year (except for, maybe, our annual staff trips)!<\/p>\n For nearly 20 years, we have been able to work one-on-one with teachers to create incredible educational tours that meet each individual’s specific needs and budgets. Explorica is committed to enriching students through educational travel, and that means helping teachers extend the opportunity to as many students as possible. In fact, as a WorldStrides organization\u00a0we help more than 400,000 teachers and students travel\u00a0the world every year!<\/p>\n Richard Beekman, Executive Vice President, has been with Explorica since the beginning. He has always admired the teachers we work with, and has been lucky enough to meet so many of them!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Our staff is filled with dedicated, passionate people who are truly here to help teachers. For Teacher Appreciation Week, we asked our staff to share a few memories of teachers they had in school, or teachers they’ve worked with.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n “It\u2019s really touching to see how hard some of my group leaders work to organize fundraising and community sponsorships for their travel programs and specific students, who otherwise wouldn\u2019t be able to take part.\u00a0 It truly is a labor of love for them, to be able to afford their students the opportunity for such a transformative experience.\u00a0 Travel is definitely an investment, but the return on it is truly unmatched in the personal growth our teachers report seeing in their kids!”\u00a0\u2014Sheila Moynihan<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Every year, the National PTA celebrates Teacher Appreciation week\u2014spending a whole week celebrating the many, many ways teachers affect our lives. May 8th kicks off\u00a0Teacher Appreciation Week 2017, and here at Explorica, this is our favorite week of the year (except for, maybe, our annual staff trips)! For nearly 20 years, we have been able Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6863","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6863"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6887,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6863\/revisions\/6887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Richard](\"http:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/rich-beekman.jpg\")
“For 17 years I have had the privilege to work both directly and indirectly with tens of thousands of teachers and their colleagues who have partnered with Explorica for their educational tours. This week we thank all teachers, and especially those who spend countless hours to plan and prepare life changing trips and then take up precious vacation time to open the world to their students. I hope that my children are lucky enough to have teachers in their lives like you.”\u2014Rich Beekman<\/strong><\/p>\n![\"Bryan](\"http:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/China3-200x200.jpg\")
“What I loved most about my Spanish teacher Se\u00f1ora Swenson was that she had such an amazing upbeat personality. She was always so passionate about the Spanish language and Spanish cultures. Her classroom was always so bright and lively with all colors of the rainbow. Pictures from Spanish speaking countries all around the world. This made learning that much more fun. She also was able to show the world to her students by taking them abroad, which totally changed their lives for good. I will never forget what she has done for me and she has truly helped me become that much closer to becoming a fluent Spanish speaker.” \u2014Bryan Oullette<\/b><\/p>\n![\"Sheila](\"http:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Sheila_Moynihan-200x200.jpg\")
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