Cleaning Up: Bronze for a Troop

I posted on several Facebook groups for Girl Scout leaders asking for people to contact me if they or their daughters had an extraordinarily good or bad experience with the higher awards.  I've read different times over the years about girls who felt run ragged by council or who felt that much of their project was put in place to please a committee, not to really serve any useful purpose.  No one like that responded to me, but I've had two people reach out about the great time they had with the Bronze Award.  

I Love Journeys: Part 2 of an Interview With a Journey Lover

 This post is the second part of an interview with Nicole, who is on staff for Girl Scouts of Colorado, and who responded to my request to interview someone who was very pro-Journey.  You can read about Nicole and read the first part of our conversation here.  Part 3 is here. 

Ruth:  To pick up where we left off, and to go back to the question I asked earlier:  I can see that the goals of the Journey program are good, but even you admit that the published programming isn't the best.  How do I as a leader make Journeys what they should be, rather than a chore or a hoop we have to jump through?

I Love Journeys: Interview With a Journey Lover: Part One

I recently published a bunch of comments about Journeys that were written by people who responded to a survey I did on GSUSA programming.  Most of those comments were pretty anti-Journey, anti-TAP.  That blog post garnered a couple of comments that were extremely supportive of Journeys and so I went back to the Facebook groups where I had posted links and posted that I really wanted to talk to those pro-Journey people.  Nicole came forward and offered to talk to me.