Quality Programs Level 2
Date
Location
San Diego, CA 92108
Cost
1st Person ACA Member: $200
1st person Nonmember: $400
2nd Person ACA Member: $150
2nd Person Nonmember: $350
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Quality Programs Level 2 builds on the groundwork we developed in Quality Programs 1, guiding participants to deepen camper engagement, elevate staff reflection, and apply data-driven insights for lasting program improvement.
Participants will:
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Deepen Camper Engagement and Connection – Move beyond foundational practices to strengthen staff-camper relationships that foster belonging and active participation.
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Elevate Staff Practice from Reactive to Reflective – Refine interactive staff behaviors that encourage empathy, emotional awareness, and purposeful coaching moments.
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Analyze and Apply Assessment Insights – Advance your ability to interpret Social Emotional Learning Program Quality Assessment for Camps data to inform strategy, track progress, and celebrate success.
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Facilitate Ongoing Improvement as a Team – Build confidence leading collaborative reflection, setting actionable goals, and embedding a culture of continuous learning and program excellence.
Ready to take your team further? Bring a colleague and continue your camp’s journey toward meaningful, lasting program improvement.
*Please note that participants must have completed Quality Programs Level 1 to advance to Quality Programs Level 2
Steph Love, MS Experiential Education, has spent her career at camp, working in almost every role imaginable from CIT to camp director. In 2004, Steph co-founded her own camp, Positive Energy Outdoors, providing access to unique outdoor programming, including dog sledding and driving draft horses, kayaking, rock climbing, and her community’s first nature play-based after-school childcare program. Through camps and program partnerships, she has created safe and supportive outdoor experiences for thousands of children and adults of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds. Steph uses her camp expertise to design and facilitate workshops on social emotional learning, equity, character, and quality. She has coached camps and out of school time programs in 35 states and around the world through her work with the Forum for Youth Investment’s Weikart Center, and her current work with ACA and the SeriousFun Children’s Network. Steph lives in Duluth, MN with her teenage son, sled dogs, and rescue black lab. She is a volunteer adaptive alpine skiing and kayak instructor, and is slowly transforming her lawn into a pollinator garden.
Karen Greenesmith, ACA (bio coming soon)
McKenna Crews, ACA (bio coming soon)
Part 1 (1 hour) 8:30–9:30 a.m.
- Welcome and Introductions
- Prepare for Continuous Program Quality Improvement
- What is continuous program quality improvement?
- Prepare to Assess the Quality of Programs
- Observation Practice
- Next Steps: Plan your self-assessment process
Part 2 (3 hours) 9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
- Interactive and Engaging Environment Scale Review
- Deeper Dive into Items
- Staff Practices: Cultivating Empathy
- Creating Interactive and Engaging Environments at Camp
- Next Steps: Take it back and train your staff
- Closing Reflection
Earn 4.0 CEC for this event. More information on CECs can be found here.
