http://www.acacampsblog.org Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:58:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Camp is an exemplary classroom without wall.  Great for kids and parents!  Camp offers children opportunities to stretch and experience key developmental steps that help them become successful adults - things such as; independence, healthy risk taking and important life skills.  Camp actively engages young people in an expanded learning process while ... http://www.acacampsblog.org/?p=148 Learning – such a great word.  I went to Wikipedia to further explore what I feel may be one of the most important and critical brain functions we possess. Wikipedia said, “Learning is acquiring new knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, preferences or understanding, and may involve synthesizing different types of information.” “Play has ... http://www.acacampsblog.org/?p=146 At this time of year, the "Letter from Peg" is directed to camp staff and counselors as you prepare to enter the summer season. This year is no different. During camp training and orientation, you will receive a great deal of content knowledge. ... http://www.acacampsblog.org/?p=143 Many of you will be working at camp this summer as a camp counselor.  Consider your opportunities and how to maximize those opportunities well beyond the summer months.  I would like to ask you to consider keeping a Life/Skills Career Journal this summer.  Many of the  skills and competencies that you ... http://www.acacampsblog.org/?p=140 I was a keynote for the Parenting Publications of America's conference early this March.  I was sharing with them many of the messages I share with you when I post on this blog.  I picked up again on my theme about the Field Guide for Preserving Childhood.  I posed the ... http://www.acacampsblog.org/?p=138 We created a 7 minute video about ACA's 100th anniversary.  You simply cannot capture 100 years in a 7 minute video.  It is a snapshot - an index that precedes many chapters.  An index that attempts to capture the enormous heart of ACA. Yet, there are many faces, voices, and experiences ... http://www.acacampsblog.org/?p=134 Years ago, Marla Coleman told us the camp experience could not be seen as discretionary.  She suggested the camp experience be described as vital. In today's economy, few can afford to be viewed as discretionary.  That said our ability to articulate the added-value of the camp experience as an expanded ... http://www.acacampsblog.org/?p=131 Okay, I am guilty!!!  I have ignored this blog for far too long.  No one will probably read it now.  I am so sorry. That said so much has been happening particularly around the idea of 'reframing' the education reform discussion.   In collaboration with ACA's legal firm, IceMiller LLC, we now have ... http://www.acacampsblog.org/?p=126 As the debate continues around education reform and summer learning loss, ACA is advocating that we re-frame the issue.  What do children and youth need in order to learn?  What conditions and experiences cause a young person to be ready to learn?  The solution must be child-centric.  Teaching children to ... http://www.acacampsblog.org/?p=121 I want to know what you are thinking about when you read the literature about education reform?  What are the implications for camp?  What is our position/s?  How do children learn?  How do children and youth learn mastery and competence?  What did it look like?  What does it look like?  ... http://www.acacampsblog.org/?p=119