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In July 2025, we are partnering with Global Exploration for Educators Organization (GEEO) for an educational tour of Turkey! 

For the past several years, MES outreach has organized short-term educational programs for K-16 educators to travel to the Middle East on comphrensive tours, visiting sites under the guidance of an experienced, credentialed guide.

Our partner, Global Exploration for Educators Organization (GEEO), is a non-profit organization that helps and encourages educators to travel abroad. 

Educators have the opportunity to apply for grants after the trip to develop standards-aligned digital resources based on their learnings. 

For more information, contact CMES Outreach.

Previous destinations have included:

  • 2024: Jordan
  • 2023: Qatar
  • 2022: Moorish Spain
  • 2019: Oman & Qatar
  • 2018: Morocco
  • 2016: Moorish Spain
  • 2013: Heart of the Silk Route
  • 2012: Morocco
  • 2011: Egypt (cancelled)
  • 2010: Egypt
  • 2009: Turkey 
  • Other Programs

    Teaching Excellence and Achievement Program
    The Teaching Excellence and Achievement Program (TEA), a program of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State, provides secondary-school teachers from Europe, Eurasia, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Western Hemisphere with unique opportunities to develop expertise in their subject areas, enhance their teaching skills, and increase their knowledge about the United States. U.S. secondary teachers have the opportunity to take part in a two- week reciprocal visit to a participating TEA country where they will be hosted by a TEA fellow.  The US teachers’ program overseas combines opportunities to work with their foreign peers and learn about the host culture – lessons that they can use to promote mutual understanding in their US classroom.  

     

    Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad

    The program provides short-term study and travel seminars abroad for U.S. educators in the social sciences and humanities for the purpose of improving their understanding and knowledge of the peoples and cultures of other countries. These are four to six week seminars for K-12 and postsecondary teachers and administrators.

     

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