A blog from one Scouter to others — along with ideas for delivering the Reverence aspects of Scouting
Today’s Scouting Movement isn’t just monthly campouts from yesteryear – sure, our Boy Scout Troops camp almost every month, but they do it to help young leaders learn to lead: planning meals, organizing tasks, encouraging teamwork, and teaching new skills (to each other). Scouting today also has full programs around STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and…
Like most other things in adult life, paperwork always seems to be what ‘gets in the way’ – and when it comes to recharter or wring-out, encouraging well-intentioned and actively serving adults to renew their YPT training used to be arduous. But in 2015, YPT management is much easier due to the new Scouting Tools:…
It used to be that “R&R” used to mean rest and relaxation … but if you are a Committee Chairperson or Advancement Coordinator, then R & R stands for Recruitment and Recharter. For many units, your main recruiting efforts are complete and rechartering is “months away” — so you can take a break, right? In…
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,…
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