https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/show-me-money-views-acas-compensation-benefits-report-2010

Camp professionals often look to the American Camp Association (ACA) for salary and compensation information. In order to help association members stay current with salary and compensation trends,...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/globalization-camp-movement

In American history books, 1987 will be remembered as the "dark year" of the Reagan administration, with shadows cast by the Iran- Contra affair, the Unabomber, and detonation of an atomic weapon in...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/going-outdoor-school-talking-talk

Returning from the 2011 ACA National Conference in San Diego, I began to reflect on how camps can impact a student's education. For the past forty years, my school district has sent fifth graders to...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/camp-counseling-twenty-first-century-connecting-disconnected

Throughout the year, Camping Magazine publishes articles for full-time camp professionals. Once a year, it is written specifically for you — the camp staff who are on the front lines doing...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/reaching-out-nontraditional-campers-women-girls-african-descent-spread-their-wings-camp-butterfly

As an artist and owner of the creativity center Mijiza (Swahili for “she works with her hands”), Niambi Jaha-Echols did not always have the dream of founding a nonprofit organization devoted to the...

https://www.acacamps.org/resources/camping-magazines-20-20-toolbox

The 20/20 Toolbox series provides resources to help camps realize ACA’s 20/20 Vision. We are calling this series a “toolbox” for a reason — our intent is to focus on providing hands-on, real-life, “...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/keeping-staff-training-relevant

The world of camp is responsible for creating timeless change through temporary communities. It is a chaotic utopia enabling healthy risks and creating lifelong friendships through positive peer...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/while-goodbye-never-enough-me-its-perfect-him

I spent a lot of time in a foggy, hormone-soaked haze when I was pregnant with my first son. I was in law school at the time, and it was much more entertaining to ponder the future contents of his...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/bunks-are-good-brains-neuroscience-sleepaway-camp

Tina Payne Bryson, PhD, will be delivering the opening keynote address at the 2014 ACA National Conference. Bryson is the coauthor (with Dan Siegel) of the bestselling ...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/building-principles-architectural-design-camps

Your regularly scheduled program (Rick Stryker) has been interrupted by his architect friend — me. Rick askedme to write an article for Camping Magazine from an architect's perspective....