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What it takes to lead a troop week after week. Scoutmasters and assistant Scoutmasters wrote openly about vision, patience, mentoring youth leaders and the occasional rainy campout.
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Here's an excerpt from Ask Andy's December 10th column . Hi Andy: My question has to do with BSA national policies and why so many troops seem to stray... For example, my son recently "failed" his Scoutmaster conference for First Class...
Welcome back to the SMMPodcast. In this show we answer an email from a listerner wanting to know about how we use our Assistant Scoutmasters. We also dive into a little Troop Discipline talk. Let me know what you think.
I expect you've heard the talk of mandatory training for scout leaders coming along. I suppose that's probably really the only way to make it happen - make it required. I'm happy that all but 1 of the Assistant Scoutmasters in our troop have their Trained patch.
[Author’s note: Throughout this article I am not referring to any specific Troop, this is more general.] I’ve had the opportunity to visit several Boy Scout troops during my time in Scouts, and the one thing I know for sure is that each one operates differently.
So while I prepared yesterday, I ended up writing my thoughts and it evolved into my scoutmaster's vision statement. It will take a while but I hope to get the Scouts to come up with their own vision of our success.
In my last post, I laid out that I'm going to become Scoutmaster tonight. I have had a couple of weeks to plan for this, but I really haven't done much to prepare for tonight. The current Scoutmaster hasn't said a word about this to me, that has me a bit on edge.
This episode of Around The Scouting Campfire is dedicated to a special individual of Boy Scout Troop 68, Eymard, our assistant scoutmaster. Eymard is 83 years old and has been with the troop for 23 years. Buttons and Steve thought it was about time to recognize Eymard on the podcast.
Look around this room! WOW, 70 Scouts and almost 30 Adults all here because they love Scouting. With all these uniforms and all these people it sometimes gets confusing...Mr. Lopresto, can you tell me what the patch on your shoulder says (ASM), Assistant Scoutmaster, Mr.
It is time once again to make that trip to your nearest Hallmark store and pick up this year's Scoutmaster Snoopy Keepsake Ornament. This year's ornament, The Fearless Crew , features Snoopy leading Woodstock and two of his friends on a wilderness hike.
If you are involved with Boy Scouting in the United States you know that this is the 100th anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America and the year of the 2010 National Jamboree. Council troops are currently putting the final touches on their plans to attend the event, and Boy Scouts and leaders are already…
Last Friday night was a Court of Honor held for a Troop in New York. There was nothing really special about about this CoH, just another program honoring Scouts and Scouters in a 100 year old Troop. It's been done before (maybe at least 200 times for this Troop).
Today I spent the better part of it assisting with New Scoutmaster training. On the training team, it is my job to lead the discussion on the role of the Scoutmaster. As we wrapped up today's session, I thought it would be a good idea to discuss on the blog some of the basics of…
In this two part show, Scoutmaster Jerry has a discussion about starting up a new Troop and what it takes to make Troops successful. Join Scoutmaster Jerry as he brings in a special guest, Brand New Scoutmaster Shawn Cleary to talk about the challenges, the hopes, and the program that will make a Troop successful.
Scoutmaster G.B. from Austin, Texas sent me the following: Our troop has a Patrol Leader's Council (PLC) every first Monday. Last Monday the older boys were really acting up. I asked the senior patrol leader (SPL) to get the meeting under control but neither he nor the assistant senior patrol leader responded to my request.
