Ron Berger - Education is a Team Sport

09/07/20 • 55 min

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Ron Berger, my educational hero, joins me to talk about his new book, We Are Crew: A Teamwork Approach to School Culture and presents some important and beautiful ideas about what education should really be all about. I was so grateful to get this opportunity to speak with and learn from Ron and learn how we can all work together to “get everyone to the top of the mountain.”

My very special thanks to Ron and to Yossie Frankel for his voice work on this episodes fauxmercial.

My very special thanks to Ron and to Yossie Frankel for his voice work on this episodes fauxmercial.

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