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Commissioner Thesis: Impact of Commissioner Service on BSA Unit Health and JTE Attainment

September 2014 Circle Ten Council No comments

First and foremost, thank you to the over 1,200 BSA volunteers who participated in the survey, including over 700 in Circle Ten Council and another 500 from the rest of BSA.

CLICK HERE to download the Research Report

This report was intended to quantitatively measure the impact of Commissioners on BSA Units and JTE Attainment, from the perspectives of both Commissioners and Unit Leaders.  Commissioner-DoctorateThe major research sections include:

  • Commissioner Engagement Statistics
  • Presumptions and Realities Regarding What Commissioners Do
  • Journey-To-Excellence (JTE) Enablement
  • The Relevance of Commissioner Service

The report includes 30 quantitative data charts, along with comparative tables, to try to truly quantify the impact of Commissioners in the BSA.  The original project description can be found here for those that are interested.

UoS Cub’s Duty to God PPT

January 2013 Awards and Programs, Cub Scouts, Interfaith, What BSA says No comments

Last week, I had the opportunity to teach at Circle 10 Council’s University of Scouting … including course CUB033 Duty to God:

  • What the BSA says about Faith – in order to prepare leaders for some of the questions that parents will ask
  • Fundamentals of the Religious Awards programs that are available to Scouts through PrayPub
  • Planning a Religious Study and a Pack Worship Service
  • A sample service given in my Pack

Here is the PPT from the course.

If you use it to teach a course, here are two requests for your consideration.  1) please let me know how it might be improved and 2) please point people back to ScoutingForGod for supplemental content and insight.

 
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