The School Visit List

Educators learn best when they spend time in schools and systems that work differently.

A running list of school and system visits across the country: ones you can register for yourself, and schools and districts that will host you if you ask.

Curated by Alex Seeskin

Host visits? Get listed About this list

Map of the United States showing where listed visits take place
Published dates By request Click a dot to see the visits there.

Visits you can put on a calendar

Every visit here has a published date, and anyone in the audience it’s designed for can register or apply — no membership or invitation required.

Schools and districts

Visits by request

These schools and districts host educators on dates you arrange with them. You'll write or fill out a form and wait to hear back, so plan ahead.

Hosting takes staff time. If a listing shows no cost, ask the host whether there is a fee or a school foundation you can pay.

About this list

Schools across the country are doing work worth seeing, and many of them welcome visitors. But those visits are scattered across program websites, conferences, and personal networks, so the people who find them are usually the ones already connected. This list puts them in one place.

How the list works

What gets listed

Visits with dates need a published date, registration or an application open to anyone in the intended audience, and at least half a day inside an operating school with students in session. Visits by request need a public way to ask for an educator visit, separate from prospective-family tours, and time in classrooms while school is in session. Programs that run visits on a regular cycle are added once this year’s dates are public.

Where listings come from

Each program’s public information, or the host directly. I edit only for length and add the same set of details to every entry so they can be compared. Each listing shows whether the host has confirmed it. I list visits; I don’t vet or rate them.

I use AI to help draft and update listings. I review every entry before it goes up, and I’m responsible for what it says.

Where the school details come from

Grade levels, setting, and the share of students from low-income families are reported by the host. Where a host hasn’t reported them yet, I use the most recent federal data from the National Center for Education Statistics, and each listing says which source it uses. Private schools don’t report low-income data to the federal government.

Get listed

Run a visit that isn’t here? Submit it → and it gets listed. Hosts can correct or remove a listing at any time: write to hello@theschoolvisitlist.org.

Get the quarterly email

Four times a year: what’s newly open for registration, and what’s coming next season.

Who runs it

I’m Alex Seeskin. Planning and facilitating school visits has been a through line in my work for the past decade. The visits I’ve gone on have been some of the most eye-opening experiences of my career, and the ones I’ve facilitated shift other educators’ mindsets and practices.

One question drives my work: how to create more opportunities for educators to visit schools and districts that work differently. When I went looking, there weren’t many visits, and the ones that exist were hard to find.

This list is where I started. I want visiting other schools and districts to be within reach for every educator. The list is free to use and free to be listed on, and no one pays to run it.

I also plan and facilitate visits for funders, nonprofits, and districts through my consulting practice, Schoolhouse Analytics. Book a meeting or learn more about that work. Some schools and districts on this list are or have been clients. They’re listed on the same terms as everyone else.

Before this, I taught high school English in Chicago Public Schools for nearly a decade, then founded and led the University of Chicago’s To&Through Project. I also teach social entrepreneurship at UNC Chapel Hill.

If you have questions or feedback about the list, I’d like to hear them: hello@theschoolvisitlist.org.