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Peace of Mind for Parents and Teachers
At Earth Explore, our committment to student safety is comprehensive. It begins with the selection of adult chaperones, and continues with the best student to leader ratio of any educational travel experience in the nation.
Earth Explore has in place the most rigorous chaperone selection process in the youth travel field. Our Leaders must be classroom teachers, and come from the schools from which our students travel. They must also be directly recommended by a parent, as well as their principal or school administrator. This assures leadership that is the finest in the industry.
Our on-site Travel Managers handle every travel contingency and are in regular contact with the National Office. They are a key resource for our teacher/chaperones, and coordinate every aspect of logistics so that our teachers are focused solely on the needs of the students.
Earth Explore maintains the lowest adult to student ratio of any similar program in the nation. Our ratio averages 1 to 8 during travel, with a ratio of 1 to 5 the average during program activities conducted with our partners.
During the travel season, Earth Explore's office features 24 hour staffing, insuring that any contingency that may arise is handled quickly, smoothly and efficiently.
All Earth Explore participants and their parents are required to agree to a statement of Rules and Guidelines that require high standards of personal conduct and respect toward other group members. All participants also submit a Health and Medical Form, which authorizes treatment in the event of emergency, and contains important contact information. These forms are carried by the Leaders, and are also on file in the National Office. In addition, all participants take part in a pre-acceptance interview conducted by teachers, as well as a series of preparation session meetings stressing safety, travel skills and other key topics.
Our Leaders and Travel Managers are issued a comprehensive Travel Handbook which has helped to guide our groups for the past ten years. It covers everything from teamwork issues, to hotel safety and travel emergencies, and insures that travel proceeds smoothly at all times.
All group members are covered under an umbrella accident insurance policy, which provides comprehensive coverage in the unlikely event of injury on the program.
Privacy Policy
Earth Explore takes the privacy of our clients' personal information very seriously. Earth Explore's privacy policy and that of the Earth Explore Foundation is simple. We consider personal information to be strictly confidential. We will never market, sell, distribute, or otherwise compromise the personal information that is supplied to Earth Explore by families upon registration in the program, or provided at any other time.
Only that information required by official Earth Explore partners for successful implementation of program activities will be shared by Earth Explore, and only for the strict purpose of insuring program fulfillment.
The in-house use by Earth Explore of any information provided to the organization will be limited solely to that authorized for program outreach purposes as stated in the program Terms and Conditions.
CST Registration #2070324-40 Registration as a Seller of Travel does not constitute approval by the state of California
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