Ben Klasky At TEDxRainier As kids now spend more time with entertainment media, they’re getting less and less time outdoors, despite the mental and physical health benefits. Ben Klasky, CEO of IslandWood, a 255-acre outdoor learning center...
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Rita Pierson, a teacher for 40 years, once heard a colleague say, “They don’t pay me to like the kids.” Her response: “Kids don’t learn from people they don’t like.’” A rousing call to educators to...
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Why Making Friends is One of the Most Important Things that Happens at Summer Camp “Friendship is the gold of childhood” Michael Thompson, Ph.D. When I saw this TED Talk by Susan Pinker, “The Secret to Living Longer May be Your Social Life,” I...
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The camp experience enriches lives and changes the world. Camp provides children with a community of caring adults, who nurture experiential education that results in self-respect and appreciation for human value. All of the outcomes –...
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Career-focused, but can’t land that dream internship? Intent on finishing up undergrad, but don’t have a job lined up for this summer? Do you have a summer wide-open, but are unsure how to fill it? We believe that internships and yes, even summer...
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Guest post by Anne Archer Yetsko When I speak with friends who work in other industries, I always tell them that if you have an applicant who has been a camp counselor and has a positive reference from that camp, they should move to the top of...
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Michael Ungar Ph.D.Nurturing Resilience I recently spoke to 300 camp directors about how to make children more resilient to life stress. Summer camps, we discovered, are perfect places to help children optimize their psychosocial development...
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