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Camping Magazine
The Business of Camp: Starting a New Camp
January 1, 2014
“It is critical to treat camp like a business or it will absolutely fail, and to know in your head and heart that if you treat camp only as a business it will also fail absolutely...
Growing Relationships and Nature Experiences
January 1, 2014
At age eleven, Rue Mapp was programming computers while growing up on her family’s ranch in northern California, participating in both recreational and organized camp experiences...
Success through Giving
January 1, 2014
Bestselling author and top-rated Wharton School professor Adam Grant will be speaking at the 2014 ACA National Conference on Thursday, February 6. In an interview with ACA, Grant...
Bunks Are Good for Brains: The Neuroscience of Sleepaway Camp
January 1, 2014
Tina Payne Bryson, PhD, will be delivering the opening keynote address at the 2014 ACA National Conference . Bryson is the coauthor (with Dan Siegel) of the bestselling The Whole...
The Prediction. The Trifecta. The Promise.
January 1, 2014
The Prediction I often talk about the early childhood movement. Beginning with thought leaders such as John Dewey in the early twentieth century, continuing with Jean Piaget...
A Place to Share: Four Aspects of the National Conference We Should All Experience
January 1, 2014
I was born a camp brat. From the age of six years old, I had no choice but to live the camp life as my mother began her career in camp administration. My early camp years were...
Building Principles — If William Shakespeare Wrote This, He’d Say: Oil’s Well That Ends Well
January 1, 2014
Ahhh, oil! Black gold. Texas tea. At least that’s how the opening to the television show Beverly Hillbillies referred to it. (Anyone else besides me remember black and white TV?)...
Implementing Special Events and Programs at Camp
July 1, 2015
While a summer at camp is, in and of itself, a special event, sometimes it’s important to shake up the daily routine to revitalize both campers and staff, especially a few weeks...
Risk Management: Severe Weather — Flood Risks
January 1, 2014
Extreme weather events seem to be happening more frequently. The root cause is still the subject of heated debate. Is the severity just a cyclical change, or is global warming...
Create Inspirational Memories (Intentionally)
May 1, 2015
Almost everyone who has ever been to camp can quickly tell a story about something they did, learned, or observed that had a profound impact on their life. How do these experiences...
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