LeadAmerica offers educators like you the opportunity to travel with your students and to participate in the program activities – all expenses paid – plus, earn a stipend for your role as a travel companion.*

3 Easy Steps

Become a LeadAmerica Educator Travel-Companion

	Nominate Your Most-Promising (high-achieving; high-potential) Students Create an educator account today, and get started by nominating your students. This is the first and most important step to beginning the Travel-Companion process.
	Select Your Preferred LeadAmerica Conference Simply browse through our conferences online.  Once you find the one you would like to attend with your students, enrollment is just a click away. If you are interested in traveling with your students, but not ready to enroll today, please let us know or request more information.
	Spread the Word: Host an Open House Event By hosting an open house for parents and students, it will give you a great opportunity to build some excitement, communicate conference information and answer questions. Once you have completed steps one and two, you can conveniently download the Travel-Companion Toolkit from your “My LeadAmerica” page. Our Travel-Companion Toolkit will provide you with all the resources you’ll need to get started.

As a travel-companion you will have the opportunity to: Travel to great destinations like Washington, D.C., New York, San Francisco and Chicago Explore well-known sites of interest and educational value including Capitol Hill, the Golden Gate Bridge and the bright lights of Broadway Visit leading universities like Stanford, Columbia, Johns Hopkins and UCLA Experience along with your students the main curricular components of our programs * As a travel-companion you will be eligible to receive the following benefits: Travel expense up to $400 On-campus meals and lodging Stipend for your travel-companion duties ** Free participation in off-sites 1 CEU (select conferences & locations) Learn More

* At least five-students are required for expense paid travel. ** Stipend may vary based on the number of registered students. International educators: Stipend can be used to off-set any additional costs for international travel.

Your Role as a LeadAmerica Travel-Companion

Travel-Companions help prepare students for the conference experience using LeadAmerica provided materials, help relieve parent fears surrounding their children’s travel to and from the conference location, and continue to serve as mentors following the conference experience.  Travel-Companions do not have supervisory or chaperone roles during the conference. 

During the conference, Travel-Companions have the opportunity to observe and attend the curricular components that most interest them, taking home ideas that can be incorporated in the classroom.  In addition, educator workshops are offered at select venues and program sessions.

Once you have confirmed your participation as a LeadAmerica Travel-Companion, we will send you everything you need to get started.  In our Travel-Companion Toolkit, you’ll find all of the resources you’ll need to inform, recruit and enroll students who want to discover their potential, explore their passions, and create their personal pathway toward future success.