5th Grade Crew

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Crew Composition: A Crew is a group of 8 to 13 students and a staff Crew Leader, who is a lead, associate, enrichment or specialist teacher. Each grade level is grouped into four distinct Crews which usually meet once a week for 45 minutes to 1 hour. Fifth grade Crews will have thirteen Crew members and a leader from the 5th grade teaching team.

Program Purpose: The Evergreen Crew program fosters the development of the whole child and a culture of compassion, service, trust and responsibility by focusing on the development of social and emotional life skills. These skills help equip our students with the creativity, confidence and resilience needed to compose successful, satisfying and healthy lives. We seek, through Crew, to develop greater connections to ourselves, Evergreen, our families, our local and global communities and our natural world.

The Crew program has three main purposes:

1. Development of Social and Emotional Life skills

2. Nurturing secure supportive peer relationships

3. Strengthening trusting supportive relationships with school adults

Crew Curriculum: Crew themes are based upon North Carolina Standard Course of Study for Health and Guidance, the Evergreen Personal Development Curriculum, as well as the integration of Expeditionary Learning Design Principles and Expedition themes. Crew often also becomes the venue for personally exploring emerging classroom, school or larger issues.

Crew activities: Crew activities are as diverse as the Crew Leaders and Crew-members, with Leaders approaching the program purposes through use of expressive arts, team-building and problem-solving initiatives, literature, games physical and outdoor activity. Many crews develop a year long service project.

Crew Coordinator:The Crew Program is coordinated by Kriya Lendzion (kriya.lendzion@evergreenccs.org) who is also our Middle school Guidance Counselor.

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