100 Outstanding Summer Camp Program Ideas
by Kurt "Moose" Jackson
Crafting the perfect camp programming schedule can be extremely strenuous, leaving many directors frazzled and overwhelmed. When we’re feeling uninspired to create something innovative, it’s easy to resort back to what worked in past summers. However, this book provides you with 100 novel program ideas that have been tried and tested by countless professionals within the camping industry. These carefully selected activities are sure to spruce up any dull program while being suitable for both day camps and residential (sleepaway) camps alike!
A Little Guide for Teachers: Diversity in Schools
by Bennie Kara
Crafting the perfect camp programming schedule can be extremely strenuous, leaving many directors frazzled and overwhelmed. When we’re feeling uninspired to create something innovative, it’s easy to resort back to what worked in past summers. However, this book provides you with 100 novel program ideas that have been tried and tested by countless professionals within the camping industry. These carefully selected activities are sure to spruce up any dull program while being suitable for both day camps and residential (sleepaway) camps alike!
I Wish My Teacher Knew: How One Question Can Change Everything for Our Kids
by Kyle Schwartz
She was astonished by the results. Some responses were jocular, while others evoked sorrow; all of them were incredibly inspiring and eye-opening. It became evident to her that educators must recognize their students’ individual experiences in order to create an environment where they feel safe and supported within the classroom setting.
When Schwartz shared her experience online, #IWishMyTeacherKnew became an immediate worldwide viral phenomenon. Schwartz’s book tells the story of #IWishMyTeacherKnew, including many students’ emotional and insightful responses, and ultimately provides an invaluable guide for teachers, parents, and communities.
The Ultimate Camp Counselor Manual: (How To Survive And Succeed Magnificently At Summer Camp)
by Mark Richman
Discover how easy it is to:
- Boost Campers’ Confidence. Develop a greater understanding to help your campers grow and foster their self-assurance, an essential piece of their personal growth.
- Inspire your campers to relish every day of summer through a unique blend of innovative ideas and techniques, coupled with rewards, incentives, comicality, and some classic approaches. These tactics will give them the determination they need to have an unforgettable experience.
- Take the opportunity to Construct a Stellar Set of Values. Realize that each occasion, experience and circumstance offers an incredible possibility to nurture essential values such as sportsmanship, friendship, integrity, honesty, courage and humility amongst others.
- Discipline Them. Help to teach the campers methods of handling their negative behavior impulses. Mr. Richman shares with you his enormously successful 33 years of camping and teaching experience in the field of discipline. His unique style is punctuated by kindness, firmness and solid human relations strategies.
The 175 Best Camp Games: A Handbook for Leaders
by Kathleen Fraser
This book was crafted with camp leaders in mind, yet it can also captivate youth activity directors, coaches, counselors-in-training, scout leaders, teachers and parents too. If you’re looking for stimulating group activities that both involve everyone and require few materials to get started – then this is the book for you!
Best Camp Counselor Ever: Summer Camp Activity Notebook, Draw and Write, Trendy Camping Outdoor Book For Camp Counselors
by Magic Journal Publishing
100-page 6×9 notebook with prompts. This is the perfect and inexpensive summer gift for kids and adults to doodle, sketch, put stickers, write memories, or take notes in. Grab this amazing journal gift now!
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
by J.K. Rowling
As a camp counselor, you can use the Harry Potter story to help bring your campers together in a way that will be sure to resonate with them all. Not only is it an engaging, magical tale, but its characters and themes are universally recognizable. Utilizing the world of Harry Potter can provide a common ground between counselors and campers
IMPACT: An Introduction to Counseling, Mentoring, and Youth Development
by Stephen Gray Wallace
20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do The Work
by Tiffany Jewell
This book is written for EVERYONE who lives in this racialized society–including the young person who doesn’t know how to speak up to the racist adults in their life, the kid who has lost themself at times trying to fit into the dominant culture, the children who have been harmed (physically and emotionally) because no one stood up for them or they couldn’t stand up for themselves, and also for their families, teachers, and administrators.
How Time Away from Parents Can Help a Child Grow
by Michael Thompson
In Homesick and Happy, renowned child psychologist Michael Thompson, PhD, shares a strong argument for, and a vital guide to, this brief loosening of ties. A great champion of summer camp, he explains how camp ushers your children into a thrilling world offering an environment that most of us at home cannot: an electronics-free zone, a multigenerational community, meaningful daily rituals like group meals and cabin clean-up, and a place where time simply slows down. In the buggy woods, icy swims, campfire sing-alongs, and daring adventures, children have emotionally significant and character-building experiences; they often grow in ways that surprise even themselves; they make lifelong memories and cherished friends.Thompson shows how children who are away from their parents can be both homesick and happy, scared and successful, anxious and exuberant. When kids go to camp—for a week, a month, or the whole summer—they can experience some of the greatest maturation of their lives, and return more independent, strong, and healthy.
