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Mallory Meiser
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Verto Education
February 26, 2019

Advice from Parent Alumni on Sending Your Student Abroad for a Semester of College

How much communication will I have with my student? What are the classes like? What differences did you notice in your student after a semester with Verto Education? We asked our alumni parents to share their experience. Video Transcription Erin, Anya's dad, Verto Class of 2018: My name is Erin O'Connor. My daughter Anya went…
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Mallory Meiser
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Verto Education
February 23, 2019

How Does Verto Education Partner With Colleges? Hear From The Admissions Teams

Verto Education partners with college and universities around the world to allow students to spend their first semester of college abroad while staying on track to graduate in four years. Hear from our partner colleges about how our relationship works and why they are excited to be partnering with Verto Education. Video Transcription Scott Friedhoff,…
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Matthew Yam
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Verto Education
February 11, 2019

No Electricity? No Problem. A Week with the Indigenous Bribri Community in Costa Rica

After four days of exploring San Jose and taking classes at the luxurious Tryp hotel, our next destination was Bribri. We were told we’d be staying with indigenous cacao farmers living without electricity and, more frighteningly, wifi!  Truth be told, I wasn’t the slightest bit concerned. If this was the first thing we did on…
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Zach Kuiland
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Verto Education students hiking across bridge in Costa Rica
Verto Education
November 9, 2018

Verto Team Training: The Story Begins With You

I’ve always liked who people can be when they have a world of possibilities and new human experiences awaiting them. That described my feeling at the end of the first day of Verto Education Admissions Representative training, and it was one we were able to explore throughout the four days we spent together.   It’s…
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Mallory Meiser
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Verto Education
November 8, 2018

What to Do If You Weren’t Thrilled With High School

High schools in America were designed to give an affordable education to a huge number of students with a limited number of resources and minutes in the day. The result? Students associate learning with bells and intercoms, standardized tests, and bathroom passes.   The classroom is structured in a way that students are asked to…
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Mallory Meiser
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Student teaching while traveling abroad in Thailand
Verto Education
November 8, 2018

The 10 Learning Foundations of Verto Education

Think about your most transformational educational experience. The ‘Aha’ moment that has stuck with you the rest of your life. Was it sitting in a lecture hall among a hundred other students in varying degrees of consciousness? Probably not.   The Brazilian educator Paulo Freire understood this, and passionately denounced traditional education systems built upon…
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