https://www.acacamps.org/blog/benchmarking-101

Hello camp evaluators, and happy fall season. While some of you are as busy as ever, others are taking a deep breath for the first time in months. No matter where you are at, you are probably at or...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/what-i-learned-about-camp-research-aca-national-conference

Camp research trends include focus on acquiring equity, staff-camper interactions, and critical learning moments for campers.

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/why-summer-camp

Consider giving your kids an old-school, summer camp experience that they will learn from and cherish for the rest of their lives — it could end up being the wisest parental investment you ever...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/update-president-ceo-tom-rosenberg-covid-19

Dear Colleagues: I want to take a moment to reach out to you during these challenging times and remind you that the American Camp Association is here to support you as you work to plan for the...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/how-measure-enrollment-part-three

Hello camp evaluators! Welcome to Part 3 of my series on measuring enrollment. When I started this series, I believe I had in mind that it would be a single blog, but that blog extended into two and...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/how-measure-success

I used to be a camp director, which means that, like many of you, my summers were spent in the whirl of camp. Each day flew into the next, and never did a day pass without a crisis (or 30). After ten...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/lets-get-retrospective

Think back to the start of summer—are there things you know now that you wish you knew then?

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/program-quality-matters-youth-development

Greetings camp evaluators! Congratulations on making it to the end (or very nearly the end) of your summer season. I am so excited to present the following guest post for this week’s Research 360...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/rule-three-virtual-world-keeping-safe-all-angles

Jamal Stroud, PhD, offers tips on how to keep kids safe online.

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/safety-camp-2022-what-we-saw-field

This post outlines top camp safety concerns played out during summer 2022.