https://www.acacamps.org/blog/back-school-camp-skills

For many families, it’s back-to-school time. So along with those camp friends and songs, encourage your camper-student to remember the skills he or she learned this summer. These skills are sure to...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/once-girl-scout-always-girl-scout

“When one thinks of the 31st of October,” Juliette Low wrote in 1923, “one associates the day with Halloween when imps and witches fly about…On that night, I made my appearance in the world. Little...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/back-future-summer-camp-new-economy

A few years back I conducted a study with kids who had gone to summer camp for at least six or seven years. I asked them to talk about their...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/aristotle-wants-your-kids-go-summer-camp-why-you-might-want-tag-along

by Anna Czarnik-Neimeyer, a guest blog for ACA.  As we celebrate the end of the school year and sweaty legs come un-stuck from plastic chairs in classrooms across America, kids are...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/searching-mr-holland

Before my first day of teaching high school, a colleague came to my classroom as I worked feverishly to get it set up and ready for the students. He came to give me a gift. This gift was three films...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/metaphors-camp-lives

by Mark Shivers  In my time training summer staff, one of the most important and powerful practices has been working towards identity formation through metaphor development. Metaphor is much...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/me-us

By Bob and Rob Wipfler. A part of Camp 101, a blog series for ACA.  Educators love to talk amongst themselves about their students.  So do camp directors, and our family enjoys...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/dear-parents-guardians-alike

Send your kids to camp. For your benefit. For theirs. For the camp and for the campers there. Send your kids to camp.

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/overnight-camp-right-option

Overnight camp can be an incredible growing experience for your child. Maybe you went yourself – or you wish you had. But for whatever reason, you just know your child will thrive in cabin-sleepover-...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/preparing-camp-tips-campers-parents

Guest post by Brooke Cheley-Klebe I love those rare moments of parenthood when I am not preparing for the next thing. Most of the time as a parent, I feel as if my day is full of...