Tier 1 Organizational Readiness
Travel Program Review
The Travel Program Review reads the school's travel policies program by program, and the documents of every provider the school uses. The school repeats it every four years.
Risk intelligence
for school trips.
Decision-ready evidence for every trip.
A partner for the whole travel program
ETI360 works with schools across their whole travel program. It reviews the program, prepares each trip with the school and its providers, and supports staff while groups are away. The school keeps every decision and approval.
A new program
ETI360 works with the school as it sets out its travel policies and prepares its first trips, so the program starts with a structure the whole staff can use.
A growing program
As trips and providers multiply, ETI360 prepares every trip in the same format and evaluates each new provider's documents.
An established program
ETI360 reviews what the school already runs, program by program, and prepares the documents that teachers leading trips would otherwise assemble.
ETI360's consultants bring the experience of hundreds of school trips and many providers to each school. It takes no payment from trip providers, so its view of every provider stays independent. The program's documents and records stay with the school when staff move on.
Where ETI360 helps
A school travel program depends on the same areas of work wherever it runs. ETI360 groups its work into these eight, and each school chooses the areas it needs.
Policies, procedures and goals
ETI360 reads the school's travel policies program by program in the Travel Program Review and prepares the Travel Year Guide, which sets out the school's year of trips in one place.
Trip budgets
ETI360 sets out each trip's costs from the provider's quote in one format, covering transport, provider fees, insurance and contingency, so leadership can compare trips side by side.
Trip providers
ETI360 evaluates the documents of every provider the school uses and of each new provider it considers. ETI360 never ranks, approves or recommends a provider, and the school chooses.
Trip preparation
For each trip, ETI360 prepares the Individual Trip Reports with the school and its provider. The reports account for every day of the itinerary, list the nearest hospitals by drive time and set out the emergency action procedures.
Entry requirements and travel documents
ETI360 researches each destination's entry rules, including passport validity, visas and the border systems in force, and writes them into the reports for families. The school and families make the applications themselves.
Trip leader preparation
ETI360 runs a session with each trip's leaders before departure, in which they work through their Trip Leaders Brief day by day. New leaders get a longer session.
Communication with families
ETI360 prepares the Student and Parent Trip Report, the slides for the parent evening and a packing list built from the trip's own itinerary and weather.
Feedback and reporting
ETI360 gathers the feedback after each trip into the Post Trip Report and prepares the Semester Board Report for the school to issue to its Board.
A travel year with ETI360
ETI360 works through the whole travel year with the school. The school sets its own dates, and the phases below show how the work usually falls.
Review and planning
ETI360 meets the school's leadership to go through the program and its policies. ETI360 prepares the Travel Year Guide for the year ahead.
Choosing the trips
Trip leaders set out each trip's goals, and providers send their proposals. ETI360 evaluates the providers' documents and sets out the budgets, and the school chooses its trips.
Preparing families
ETI360 writes the entry requirements and the Student and Parent Trip Report, and prepares the slides for the parent evening.
Preparing the trips
ETI360 prepares each trip's reports, from the risk assessment groundwork to the Trip Leaders Brief, and runs the session with the leaders.
The trips
The leaders carry their Trip Leaders Brief, and the school runs its own duty arrangements while groups are away.
Feedback and reporting
ETI360 gathers the feedback into the Post Trip Report and prepares the Semester Board Report. The next year's guide starts from what the school learned.
What the work looks like
These are the documents a partnership produces, shown as worked examples that each open in full.
Tier 2 Trip ReadinessTier 3 Live Trip Support and Review
Individual Trip Reports
For each trip, ETI360 works with the school and the trip provider to prepare a consistently formatted set of reports. The reports account for every day of the itinerary and add what the school may not yet hold, from each location's details to the nearest hospitals and the emergency action procedures. The school chooses which reports each trip needs.
Tier 2 Trip Readiness
Field Trip Reports
Field Trip Reports cover the lower school's day trips for the whole school year, with one page for each trip and a calendar for each month.
Tier 2 Trip Readiness
Conference Travel Reports
Conference Travel Reports give the coaches and staff who travel with the school's teams one guide for the season, with a chapter for each host city.
Who does the work
ETI360 was founded by Dan Skimin and Seb Wong.
Dan Skimin, Principal Consultant, coordinated 600 programs for 12,000 students over 16 years as an international school athletics director and trip coordinator, including as Interim Semester Coordinator at Singapore American School. He holds a doctorate in educational leadership and administration from the University of Southern California and an MBA in global finance from Thunderbird School of Global Management.
Seb Wong, Senior Consultant, is Senior Manager of Safety, Security, and Operational Risk at Singapore American School. He spent more than a decade in outdoor education leading wilderness expeditions, and he is part of every engagement.
How a partnership starts
A first conversation covers the school's program and the trips it runs. ETI360 then sets out the areas of work the school wants and what they cost, and the Travel Program Review is usually the first piece of work.