It's true that how you start the year sets the stage for the entire year and makes things go smoothly or sets you up for struggle. In this session, we'll consider how your classroom's physical environment sends messages before you even say a word and how to arrange things so the messages you want to send are the ones that are received. We'll talk about the emotional and psychological environment too, and how your thoughts and feelings are communicated almost accidentally in ways you may not notice. Finally, we'll examine your priorities for the first two or three weeks with your new group. We'll figure out what is really important and what can wait till later.