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Camping Magazine
Rosie's Girls: Changing the Story for Girls
November 1, 2014
My tenth-grade history student addressed me tentatively in response to a classroom question. "Ms. Bluemle, I may be totally wrong, but . . . " I could barely focus on the rest of...
Pedagogically Speaking - Part 1: How Schools Talk about What Camps Do
November 1, 2014
Clinging to the position that camp is different and unique will isolate us unless we can speak intelligently about how camp is an essential complement to what young people do for...
Restoring the Human Touch
September 1, 2014
We've all seen them — gaggles of teens walking together, each with their eyes glued to the screens of their smartphones, texting, tweeting, and posting. Or that couple in the...
Moving from Mainstreaming to Outsourcing: What Everyone Can Learn from Working with Different Needs
May 1, 2015
I run two different camps for kids with different needs, including a resident camp for kids with autism. A concerned parent called to talk about how she wanted her son to be...
Leadership Transition: What I Learned in My First Year as a Camp Director
September 1, 2014
Last November I had the pleasure of sharing a long car ride with Dr. Michael Thompson, during which he gave me a fun idea. We were on the way to Houston for a presentation he was...
Leadership Transition: Managing Change
September 1, 2014
In the summer of 2013, we faced an exciting and critical challenge at our camp — a major leadership transition. We had the chance to replace our boys' camp director, who had been...
The Fad: When to Get on Board
March 1, 2014
Every year, dozens of new ideas and activities become popular among youth. Sometimes a television show makes it big and starts a fad (remember the years of Fear Factor and Minute...
Programming with a Theme
March 1, 2014
The positives for a child who attends a summer camp experience are widely known. Children and youth develop independence, self-esteem, and confidence; they experience positive role...
Yingdi: The Emerging Camp Industry in China
March 1, 2014
“Faster than a speeding bullet train” might describe the growth of the concept of camps in China. A country of 1.3 billion with the second largest economy in the world, China is...
Green River Preserve and AmeriCorps
March 1, 2014
Working at camp, we often feel like we need forty-eight hours in a day, three extra hands, a winning lottery ticket, and the ability to be in two places at once. As camp...
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