Lead Counselor: Role-MODElS not Role-PLAYERS
The Story School Lead Counselors will be focused in one of three categories: Counselor, Logistics, and Curriculum. Each of these lead counselor positions directly reports and supports the admin team of camp and should be rolemodels for what is expected from all counselors.
Counselor-Focused Lead Counselor
- Ideal Skills: Extensive work with campers/kids of all ages and previous supervisory experience
- Support all counselors in behavior management, dorm duties, and transitioning between activities
- Creates and mainstains a break schedule for counselors and works as liasion between admin and counselors
- Role-models exceptional counselor traits and child management
Logistics-Focused Lead Counselor
- Ideal Skills: Prior experience as children entertainer and counselor, prior experience with LARP/game design
- Supports Logistics and game programming including playing monsters, setting up mods, and leading battles
- Provides QA reports and on the fly adjustments to programming to help with camper engagement
- Role-models ideal hero-leader and NPC behavior and actions
Curriculum-Focused Lead Counselor
- Ideal Skills: Prior experience as an educator, organizational skills, prior experience training, extensive experience with lesson planning and STEAM
- Designing, Teaching, and Executing STEAM modules at camp
- Supporting admin staff in training other counselors to run STEAM modules
- Working with Logistics to incorporate STEAM modules into the game and vice-versa