Ron Berger - We Are Crew: A Teamwork Approach to School Culture

Crew is the crucible of character. You have in your hands the authoritative guide to creating a culture of Crew in your schoola how-to, why-to guide with vivid and specific examples. A must-read for educators interested in the whole child, and in all children, and in the potential for schools to change lives.

Angela Duckworth

Founder and CEO, Character Lab

Rosa Lee and Egbert Chang Professor at the University of Pennsylvania

Crew is a structure and a culture. Its the worlds best advisory system and its a culture that puts care and contribution at the core. We Are Crew describes how EL Education schools weave together character development and academic growth. It provides detailed advice and case studies on developing and facilitating an advisory curriculum, on creating schools where every learner belongs, on measuring what matters, and providing the professional learning for teachers to make it happen. Its the best book on advisory systems to date and a useful companion to Leaders of Their Own Learning.

Tom Vander Ark

CEO Getting Smart

Formerly Founding Education Director, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

To build a growth mindset in students and teachers, we need school cultures that embrace it every day. The Crew culture described in this book gives schools a vision and a structure for that workputting personal and academic growth at the center of the school experience. Every faculty should read it.

Carol Dweck

Lewis & Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology

Stanford University

I consider EL Education the best contemporary example of quality education in the K12 public educational system of the United States. In words, pictures, and accompanying videos, the authors succeed in conveying the challenges as well as the genius of the approaches that they have created and refined over the years.

Howard Gardner

Hobbs Research Professor of Cognition and Education

Harvard Graduate School of Education

We should educate all students to become effective lifelong learners, to be ethical, socially, and emotionally competent people, and to contribute to a better, multicultural world. This extraordinary book shares wonderful guidance and insights about how to achieve these goals. I encourage all reflective educators to form your Crews, read this book, and collaborate to implement the strategies that the authors convey so vividly and compellingly.

Roger P. Weissberg

Chief Knowledge Officer and Board Vice Chair,

Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning

Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago

Through powerful stories and convincing research, We Are Crew vividly illustrates the inextricable link between academic excellence and character developmentand the central role of school culture in fostering both. It offers inspired yet practical guidance for creating a school culture that supports students to grow as thinkers and as whole civic and social beings.

Dave Paunesku

Executive Director and Co-Founder

PERTS, Stanford University

Education

A Teamwork Approach to School Culture

Ron Berger, Anne Vilen, and Libby Woodfin

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Chapter 1: Creating a Culture of Crew

Chapter 2: Building Staff Crew

Chapter 3: Creating a Structure of Crew