https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/lens-supervisor-success-meaningful-influence

I spent my later teenage summers working at Camp Friendship, where hundreds of guests — adults and children with special needs — enjoy recreational activities. After serving as a junior counselor and...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/camp-old-neighborhood-new-generation

Employers are “observing a lack of critical soft skills such as communication, creativity, collaboration, and critical thinking” in today’s youth (Pace, 2012). Really? Schools are more rigorous than...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/what-were-you-thinking-brain-based-staff-development-strategies

What Were You Thinking? Please read that question over again in your mind; listen to your inner voice’s tone. Too often that question is asked with sarcasm or anger. What if we sincerely ask that...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/building-principles-if-william-shakespeare-wrote-hed-say-oils-well-ends-well

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?) While some folks...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/place-share-four-aspects-national-conference-we-should-all-experience

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 spent causing headaches...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/success-through-giving

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,...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/atypical-camper-jasons-story

Whenever a parent called with an interest in our camp for a child diagnosed with Asperger’s, I tried to meet the child to feel confident he could successfully adjust to camp. Jason was referred...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/camper-enrollment-continued-upward-trend-2014

Economically speaking, 2014 felt a little better across the nation. The Dow was up a bit, the jobs reports were somewhat positive, and people seemed to be spending money. Early in 2015 it still feels...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/conservation-generation-doing-good-work

At Blue Star, as at many camps, we care passionately about healing the planet. As third generation owners/directors, we are humbled and honored to continue and deepen the long tradition of social...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/play-camp-talking-funders-versus-preaching-choir

Camp professionals just get it! Play is a valuable aspect of childhood and, of course, camp. It’s a given, an easy sell. But that’s just preaching to the choir. Explaining to funders the need to...