It is crucial first and foremost to provide a safe and supportive place where children feel free to contribute without hesitation and have access to all the materials they need to learn successfully without interruptions, without an inclusive place to learn and live children cannot be expected to successfully achieve curricular goals. Second, a classroom must maintain a consistent and clear set of rules, expectations, and management techniques. In my first year I have had the opportunity to use and reflect on a myriad of techniques and find the ones that best suit my children and my pedagogy. I believe there should be consistency in everything you do and that expectations should be set from the start of the year. Children should be responsible for their own actions and learning, an example of this in my practice is allowing children to write their own set of 'classroom rules', as a result I am no longer the one enforcing the rules, they are put back an expectation on all children to respect a set of behaviors decided by the community. Additionally, I also practice a restorative justice approach to conflict management where children are helped to resolve problems with each other, rather than always needing adult support to 'solve' the problem on a level