PDK International Travel Program:
Bring the World to Your Students

PDK International is excited to announce the

2026 PDK Travel Scholarship Program

⏰ Application Due March 1, 2026

This opportunity will allow individual members to explore a destination of their choice and share their experiences with the PDK community. Scholarships will be available to support selected participants for trips that occur by December 31, 2026.

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Qualifications

All active members of PDK International adult divisions qualify…

  • PDK Association
  • Pi Lambda Theta
  • Educators Rising (Adult Members & Teacher Leaders)
  • Educators Rising Collegiate (Students & Advisors)
  • Educators Rising State/Regional Coordinators

Become an active member today: https://members.pdkintl.org/

Awards

The scholarship awards we provide for educational travel are determined based on your application, your current involvement in classrooms, and the length of your membership.

Practicing Educators K-12 and collegiate administrators, professors, and teachers Up to $2000
Non-Practicing Educators PDK Membership for 5+ years Up to $800
PDK Membership for less than 5 years Up to $500

 

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Education Trips

PDK has proudly facilitated educational travel experiences since 1961 and is honored to support our members who are traveling this year. While we will not be hosting a group trip, we continue to value the memories, perspectives, and knowledge gained through the opportunities we help make possible.

After their travels, Scholarship Awardees will…

  • Be featured on PDK’s podcast, There’s Power in Teaching
  • Appear in PDK’s Kappan Magazine
  • Have their trip highlights shared on our website

Coming Soon…

Stay tuned to see where our scholars traveled this year, and what they learned along the way!

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Have questions?
We’re happy to answer any questions you have about future or past trips. Reach out to us at travel@pdkintl.org.

Personally, I grew in the relationships I was able to develop with the other teachers. They have a wealth of knowledge that I now have access to.

New friends, new ideas, a broader vision of my world in THE world.

This trip presented me with new insights to consider when teaching my students.

Thank you to the members of the PDK International Travel Program task force members for making this program possible!

I was extremely fortunate to take part in the 2017 PDK International Study Tour in Germany.  The tour had a rich emphasis on history and some of the many highlights included the Marienplatz in Munich, Mozart’s birthplace in Salzburg, Austria, the site of the 1945 Potsdam Conference, and the Brandenburg Gate.  The tour also offered some sobering reminders such as an excursion to Dachau Concentration Camp, visits to the Documentation Centers in Munich and Nuremberg, and a tour of the Wannsee Conference Museum.

My favorite part of the tour was a visit to an all-girl school (ages 10 to 16) called the Anne Frank Realschule. The gracious hosts were a diverse variety of second-generation German students whose parents came from the Congo, Croatia, Vietnam, Thailand, and Georgia (former USSR).  The knowledge and wisdom gained from the 2017 International Study Tour in Germany will help my future students and I better face the future

History of the PDK International Travel Program

Gerald H. Read began the PDK International Travel Seminar Program in 1961 with its first trip to the Soviet Union. Nearly 20 years later, Mr. Read and his wife established the Read International Travel Scholarship to provide financial assistance to PDK members who wanted to take advantage of the travel program. During the decades that Mr. Read led these trips, PDK members traveled to 65 nations, a tradition we have proudly continued into current times. The Read International Travel Scholarship continues to support educators experiencing the world through the renamed PDK Study Tour program.

2016 Peru                               2017 Germany                              2018 Panama
2022 Spain                             2023 South Africa                            2024 Vietnam

To ensure that this program continues to be a substantial benefit to PDK members a 2019 trip was not run, and the gap year was used to convene a task force of PDK members who advised on how the program should be updated. Each year PDK International has continued to fund educators international travel and bring the world back to students and communities.

We hope you join us!

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