Breaking Down the Walls Camp/school program brings diverse communities together - Hole in the Wall Discovery Center, Ashford, Connecticut

Camping Magazine, Sept-Oct, 2001 by Elizabeth Jeffrey

Key Program Stats

* Session length: five days plus schools' field trip component

* Program Dates: six weeks in fall and six weeks in spring

* Student population: Nine-and ten-year-old children

* Counselor-to-camper ratio: 1 to 8 (1 to 5 including teachers)

* Administration: residential director, academic director, and assistant director

* Cost to child: $25

* Cost per camper to program: $275 (paid through grants)

Other Resources Organizations

- Association of Experiential Education

- Anti-Defamation League

Magazines for curriculum development

- Teaching Tolerance

- Smithsonian

- Mother Jones

Web sites

- www.pbs.org/teachersource/

- www.nativeculture.com

- www.enviroliteracy.org

- www.eastern.edu/publications/emme/