Hot Tips #1: Missing Home
It is easy to pathologize the emotional feeling of missing home as “feeling homesick.” Sickness can be scary, prone to uncertainty (in duration or int...
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HIGH TRAILS STAFF 2024
We are thrilled to introduce the High Trail’s staff of summer 2024! Our team has just finished a 10-day staff training and we are so excited to meet t...
BIG SPRING STAFF 2024
We are thrilled to introduce the Big Spring staff of summer 2024! Our team has just finished a 10-day staff training and we are so excited to meet the...
Our Camp Parents Are Not Panicked
Jay Caspian Kang, a staff writer with The New Yorker, just published an interesting perspective on why parents send their kids to summer camp: they ar...
Why Smart Kids Need Dumb Phones
Coming to Sanborn from the Yale School of Nursing, Pediatric Nurse Practitioner MOLLY RADIS BLACKBURN (HT Staff 14-15)–married to former long-time Big...
Camp is THE Antidote
High Trails Outdoor Education Center welcomed our first students today and we are all getting REALLY excited about the upcoming summer. And we are gra...
And the Oscar...oops... Distinguished Service Award...Goes to...JANE SANBORN!
We are SO excited to share with our Sanborn community that Jane Sanborn received the National Distinguished Service Award from the American Camp Assoc...
Unique Himalayan Summer Adventure Opportunity
We hope you are enjoying these early November days and are looking forward to the holiday season ahead. We are excited to share information with our c...
Mid-October Update
With everything that is going on in the world right now, it feels both incredibly remarkable–and incredibly privileged and incongruous–that we are abl...
Weekly Update: August 6, 2023
This is the part of the summer that begins to feel surreal. This morning, we woke up to cold temperatures and a crisp edge of fall in the air. When we...
Weekly Update: July 30th, 2023
We had been talking about awe and wonder this week–especially when we saw the cover of this month’s Outside magazine (we can’t wait to read all of the...
Weekly Update: July 23, 2023
Last week, we received an email from a first session parent. In it, she said, “What you all do is some of the most important work in this world: creat...