As Autumn has created a change in the season... 
we should review the climate in each of our classrooms!

"I have come to a frightening conclusion. 
I am the decisive element in the classroom. 
It is my personal approach that creates the climate. 
It is my daily mood that makes the weather. 
As a teacher, I possess tremendous power to make 
a child's life miserable or joyous. 
I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. 
I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. 
In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis 
will be escalated or de-escalated, and a child humanized or de-humanized."                     

                                         (Ginott, 1972, p.16)