https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/staff-communication-control-filters-perceptions
Staff Communication: Control, Filters, and PerceptionsCommunication in a personal setting can be a tricky thing, but in the workplace it can be downright complicated. With our staff, communication can be positive and productive and help us move our...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/acas-raise-bar-initiative-capturing-magic-camp-tangible-data
ACA’s Raise the Bar Initiative: Capturing the Magic of Camp in Tangible DataMatthew Smith is the camp communications and strategy director at Longacre in Pennsylvania, and cohort leader (along with Scott Brody, owner/director of Camps Kenwood and Evergreen in New Hampshire,...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/strategies-managing-risks-food-contamination-communicable-disease-camp
Strategies for Managing the Risks of Food Contamination and Communicable Disease at CampIt is easy to become casual about food preparation and food safety. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website, each year one in six Americans, roughly 48 million...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/scared-or-prepared
Scared or Prepared?For campers to have a successful experience we must prepare them for the unknown, build their confidence, and give them the tools needed to succeed in our camp's environment. As camps will always...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/place-share-bonds-friendship-forged-camp
A Place to Share: The Bonds of Friendship Forged at CampFour friends from childhood reunite often and maintain their relationships through adulthood: It's the makings of countless best-selling novels. But this story is real — no fictional characters, no...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/risk-management-management-oversight-your-camps-aed-program
Risk Management: Management Oversight of Your Camp's AED ProgramAs more camps purchase an automated external defibrillator (AED), the ability to establish and effectively manage a program that supports the use and maintenance of this life-saving device is...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/building-principles-architectural-design-camps
Building Principles: Architectural Design for CampsYour 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....
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/pedagogically-speaking-part-1-how-schools-talk-about-what-camps-do
Pedagogically Speaking - Part 1: How Schools Talk about What Camps DoClinging to the position that camp is different and unique will isolate us unless we can speak intelligently about how camp is an essential complement to what young people do for the other ten or 11...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/rosies-girls-changing-story-girls
Rosie's Girls: Changing the Story for GirlsMy tenth-grade history student addressed me tentatively in response to a classroom question. "Ms. Bluemle, I may be totally wrong, but . . . " I could barely focus on the rest of her sentence, as I...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/when-meetings-take-over
When Meetings Take OverBefore returning to the camp profession, I spent a couple of years working in higher education as part of the ministry staff at a small liberal arts Christian college. Our department's job was to...