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June 2017

Badges, Activities, & Beyond, Ceremonies, Traditions, & Awards, Parents, Volunteers

Go beyond badges and Journeys with special opportunities awards

Have your girls earned badges, explored the Journey awards, and are excited to add even more Girl Scout awards to their uniforms? Don’t worry, there’s so much more to the Girl Scout program beyond badges and Journey awards! You can find a quick guide to Girl Scout insignia and pins, organized by grade level, on the Girl Scouts of the USA website. It covers every badge, pin, or other insignia available for Girl Scouts to earn. You can also find information on these awards and  ...

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Volunteer Experience, Volunteers

There’s a Webinar for That! Volunteer Learning Opportunities at GSWO

Our council is committed to providing a volunteer experience that’s easy, enriching, and impactful. Having quality resources to help our volunteers in their roles is an important part of reaching that goal. To do this we redesigned our learning opportunities to be more accessible to volunteers across all of western Ohio! A large part of that redesign was creating webinar-based learning opportunities that can be reviewed on your mobile device or laptop, at a time and place that fits into  ...

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Volunteer Experience, Volunteers

The Power of Reflection: 5 Easy Ways to Debrief After an Activity!

One of our Girl Scout traditions is to ask girls to reflect on the activities they’re participating in as they learn by doing. We ask them questions about their experience like “What did you like? Was this easy or hard? Why? If we did it again what would you change?” These questions help them process their experience and we call this activity reflection, or debriefing. So why is reflection so important? According to a publication by the University of Wisconsin-Extension,  ...

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