The Day Camp Pod - From Go Camp Pro

Send us Fan Mail Find full show notes and links at: https://gocamp.pro/day-camp-pod/equity-in-camp Staff training is the opportunity to show how important DEIJ is at your org. Daniel Morias and Leslie Keller are two awesome camp professionals who over the pandemic started the Equity in Camp Initiative- and have launched a successful consulting business supporting camps through their DEI journeys. ...

Send us Fan Mail Find full show notes and links at: https://gocamp.pro/day-camp-pod/day-camp-office-admin Keeping the Trains Running on Time! The Day Camp Office is the nucleus of the organization during the off-season and during the summer. Filled with multitaskers, databases, spreadsheets, phones, Emails, texts, push notifications, weather reports- and as technology changes, so does the camp off...

Send us Fan Mail Find full show notes and links at: https://gocamp.pro/day-camp-pod/purchasing-2022 Don’t say we didn’t tell you so! We’ve all heard the news- The shipping containers stranded outside Los Angeles, the supply chain issues, the lack of truck drivers, the lack of workers everywhere - THIS IS NOT FAKE NEWS - this is Purchasing 2022, and if you want cups or french fries, or sports suppl...

Send us Fan Mail Find full show notes and links at: https://gocamp.pro/day-camp-pod/living-your-core-values You say you’re an “inclusive camp”…but are you living that every day? DEI! We can’t talk about it enough, because frankly - it’s THAT important. We’re fortunate to be joined this week by Danny Tobin, who has experienced camp, and life, from unique perspectives that help shed light and reiter...

Send us Fan Mail Find full show notes and links at: https://gocamp.pro/day-camp-pod/appreciating-staff-brandwein It’s your friend from Chicago…Michael Brandwein! We all want our staff to be professional, and we all want to support them. Great. We also want the pandemic to go away, voting rights, and peace in the middle east…  These situations are HARD, and take creativity beyond what most normal h...

Send us Fan Mail Find full show notes and links at: https://gocamp.pro/day-camp-pod/from-the-mouth-of-babes Have you asked your camp staff what their summer was really like? Andy and Sam did - and we found out their staff are incredibly honest. For our first podcast of 2022, we’re going to the source- the staff themselves- so you can hear their debrief of last summer, and their thoughts on recruit...

Send us Fan Mail Find full show notes and links at: https://gocamp.pro/day-camp-pod/2021-resolutions Here’s how our hosts are (and you can) set yourself up for success in 2022! 2021 has come to a close, and Sam, Tiff and Andy have some New Year’s resolutions to make 2022 the best it can be for our camp, and especially our staff. SUPPORT, training, diversifying revenue streams, and more- PLUS, a fe...

Send us Fan Mail Find full show notes and links at: https://gocamp.pro/day-camp-pod/extreme-heat-2021 The heat is ON! Here’s how to not just survive, but thrive when the weather is at it’s hottest! 2021 was literally the HOTTEST SUMMER OF ALL TIME. The heat is on, people, global warming is real, and it ain’t getting any cooler. We need to do what we can as camp operators to operate in these crazy...

Send us Fan Mail Find full show notes and links at: https://gocamp.pro/day-camp-pod/dream-big-cannabis Mary Stein is here to tell us how she dreamed big…and how she was one of the first camps to face marijuana legalization at camp! Mary Stein started a private day camp from scratch in a neighborhood that at first didn’t realize how primed for it, it was. Dream BIG Day Camp worked deals with local...

Send us Fan Mail Find full show notes and links at: https://gocamp.pro/day-camp-pod/sleepaway-spirit-4 An annual tradition of ours…where we talk about…traditions (and other great stuff!) Every season on this podcast, we discuss the “secret sauce” of camp- with a couple of crossover day camp pros, who have special insight.  Today, we welcome Dave Skolnik from Hampton Day Camp, and Scott Leonard fro...

Send us Fan Mail Find full show notes and links at: https://gocamp.pro/day-camp-pod/staffing-and-reorg What to do when it feels like you need to rethink EVERYTHING? Summer 2022 is the time. What more of a kick in the butt do you need? Staff need to be paid equitably, programs need to be rethought, value-added means something totally different nowadays and we need to be ready. And here’s the thing...

Send us Fan Mail Find full show notes and links at: https://gocamp.pro/day-camp-pod/camps-at-school School’s out. Camp’s in! You can run a great camp program ANYWHERE! If you’ve got the right people, a solid program and a can-do attitude, you’re in. Running a day camp in a school setting, but it definitely also has some major advantages! For millions of kids across the world, schools are their cam...

Send us Fan Mail Find full show notes and links at: https://gocamp.pro/day-camp-pod/2022-staffing-pt1 Was staffing a slog in 2021? We have a cheat code for 2022 - her name is Kim Aycock Kim Aycock dedicates her life to the ins and outs of camp staffing- Recruitment, Hiring, Retention- All-round Best Practices.  She trains camp staff, she posts great content on social media, she blogs, pods, and le...

Send us Fan Mail Find full show notes and links at: https://gocamp.pro/day-camp-pod/multicultural-camp-dcp Just because your marketing materials say you are multicultural, or diverse, doesn’t mean you are. Here’s how Kevin Gordon did it, and how you can, too. Kevin Gordon is a camp owner and director who started Camp Kupugani from scratch, as a multicultural camp experience, and with a 10-point Ku...

Send us Fan Mail Find full show notes and links at: https://gocamp.pro/day-camp-pod/summer-2021-debrief We’re on the other side of the Summer of 2021 - Let’s unpack it together. How are you? After a first, or second COVID-summer, many Day Camp Pros are only now coming out of hibernation. It was, to say the least, a tough summer. But have no fear, the Day Camp Pod is here! Join Andy, Sam and Tiff a...

Send us Fan Mail Find full show notes and links at: https://gocamp.pro/day-camp-pod/2021-mental-health The perfect, and most important way to wrap up our season together - Thanks for being a friend of camps everywhere Dr. G! 2020 and 2021 have been quite a shock to our camp community. The clinically inclined would call it trauma. Same as a 9/11, a war, or other experiences that can shake the found...

Send us Fan Mail Find full show notes and links at: https://gocamp.pro/day-camp-pod/mini-not-for-profit-like-for Welcome to the meshugganah motivator himself, Aaron Greenberg! The not-for-profit camping world has had it tough this past year, with nervous funders, shoe-string budgets, furloughed staff and such. But not as much so with the Jewish Camps that work with Aaron Greenberg. In 2020, Aaron...

Send us Fan Mail Find full show notes and links at: https://gocamp.pro/day-camp-pod/supporting-trans-campers-staff We can’t keep doing things the way we’ve been doing them if our goal is to keep all of the campers in our care safe. Welcome, Chris Rehs-Dupin! Day Camps have gone through all kinds of changes through the years. In the 1950s and 60s - the talk was probably about integration at camps....

Send us Fan Mail Find full show notes and links at: https://gocamp.pro/day-camp-pod/mini-games-games Curt “Moose” Jackson is with Sam to share his best games and best gaming practices. This mini-pod is all about games! Games are the bread and butter of a great camp staff member and you can never have too many favourites. We’re grateful for Curt to join us on this episode! If you want more Camp Pro...

Send us Fan Mail Find full show notes and links at: https://gocamp.pro/day-camp-pod/circle-taco Using circles (…and tacos?) to help our campers be their best this summer. Welcome, Emily Golinsky! Most Day Camps fancy themselves masters in the art of Circle Time, but we doubt that most look at it as an act of restorative justice. To quote a golden Bob Ditter metaphor, camp is about making change, a...

Send us Fan Mail Find full show notes and links at: https://gocamp.pro/day-camp-pod/mini-camp-training-dave-malter Welcome back to the Podcast, Dave Malter! Andy and the great Professor Dave Malter are here to talk about the complexities that will go into training staff to serve kids that have been living in a pandemic for a WHOLE YEAR now. It’s going to be a different kind of training, so we need...

Send us Fan Mail Find full show notes and links at: https://gocamp.pro/day-camp-pod/frank-brandwein Welcome back, Michael Brandwein! Like a day camp guardian angel, Michael Brandwein has been bestowing wisdom upon us for longer than many of our listeners may roam this earth- How does that make you feel, Michael? The defending champion of Day Camp Pod guests returns in our third season to defend hi...

Send us Fan Mail Find full show notes and links at: https://gocamp.pro/day-camp-pod/mini-camp-activities SPONSORED CONTENT - Thanks to Camptivities for their support! Day Camp schedules come in all ways shapes and forms, but most of us have the same goals- to create a wide-ranging and engaging program that kids can enjoy and learn from. Set activities, electives, special events. All present challe...

Send us Fan Mail Find full show notes and links at: https://gocamp.pro/day-camp-pod/liquid-sunshine It’s time to learn to dance in the rain, folks! At day camp we don’t have rainy days, we have Liquid Sunshine, and it’s not raining until we say it is. My brother lives in Seattle, where it rains almost every day, and nobody complains. As we camp directors like to say- “there’s no such thing as bad...

Send us Fan Mail Find full show notes and links at: https://gocamp.pro/day-camp-pod/mini-advocacy-gold Welcome back, Jonathan Gold! Review us on iTunes! Please help us welcome back the man, the myth, the legend, Jonathan Gold to this Day Camp Mini-Pod! Tune in to hear more about: WHY Government advocacy- It’s like an insurance policy- and it’s also a bit pricey. Forming your own State Government A...