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https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/camp-educator-lessons-learned-history
Camp as Educator: Lessons Learned from HistoryBy the time Charles W. Eliot, former president of Harvard University, reportedly claimed in 1922, “the organized summer camp is the most important step in education that America has given the world...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/camp-crossroads-americas-past-future
Camp: At the Crossroads of America’s Past and FutureIf you have listened to the news lately, you’ve heard that folks are upset. A recent Wall Street Journal poll suggests that upward of 70 percent of Americans feel that the country is headed in the...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/place-share-global-giving
A Place to Share: Global GivingGiving has always been a critical lesson that we teach campers and staff as part of the camp experience. Living and learning together, campers must give respect to their peers and camp staff. In...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/environmental-impairment-risk
Environmental Impairment RiskOur world is fragile and so are we! Could we have a starker reminder of this than the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico earlier this year? There are many lessons which...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/campline/we-asked-experts-our-most-popular-legal-opinions
We Asked the Experts - Our Most Popular Legal OpinionsSince 2005, the American Camp Association (ACA) has relied upon the legal expertise of Charles R. (Reb) Gregg, Catherine Hansen-Stamp and others to help organizations understand many of the...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/campline/are-you-ready-e-sign-revolution
Are You Ready for the E-Sign Revolution?Introduction In 2006, we wrote an article for CampLine entitled “Electronic Communication — Legal and Practical Issues to Consider In the Information Age.” That...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/building-principles-elephant-living-room
Building Principles: The Elephant in the Living RoomBy itself, this month's metaphoric title may already have caused some readers to turn the page because it suggests that the facility guy is on a tirade about something we all know about but don't...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/increasing-your-preventive-maintenance-efforts
Increasing Your Preventive Maintenance EffortsManage Time. Have staff do both reactive and preventive maintenance. Do not focus energies only on what's visible, or reactive maintenance. Train staff in preventive maintenance. Staff need to...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/myth-risk-promoting-healthy-behavior-challenging-teens
The Myth of Risk: Promoting Healthy Behavior by Challenging TeensMost camp professionals have known intuitively for years what new Teens Today research from SADD (Students Against Destructive Decisions) and Liberty Mutual Group now makes statistically clear —...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/rites-passage-camp-pays-youth-development-happiness-health-safety
Rites of Passage: Camp Pays Off in Youth Development, Happiness, Health, and SafetyFor years sociologists, anthropologists, and psychologists have mourned the loss of traditions marking important childhood "rites of passage." In earlier American culture, movement toward adulthood...