It is important to engage students in experiential learning and be transparent in lesson and classroom goals and objectives. A caring classroom environment can be created by engaging students in meaningful dialogue about their emotions and values. This can be done through effectively introducing daily morning meetings/circles and teaching virtues, which become vocabulary for conversations throughout the day. I hope that my students will internalize these daily routines and act on them in other situations without prompting. As a class we would begin the year with a discussion, setting out clear guidelines of student and teacher roles which would be used as reference points throughout the year to guide positive behavior and interactions. I will incorporate growth mindset language in the classroom and encourage students to use it among their peers; I will share with students my high expectations for them as lifelong learners by emphasizing the importance of hard work and valuing the process of learning, not the end product.