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Hello, good afternoon. I am your host, Kotobonkov, our junior and on today's Educators 101 podcast, we will be highlighting the importance of creating a safe, inclusive learning environment in the classroom. So the first journal that I wanted to highlight was one by Yuki Terada. In this journal, she highlighted the importance that provided some significant data regarding how academic engagement significantly goes up about 27 to 30 percent by simply greeting students at the door. Now, greeting students at the door includes saying the students name, making eye contact with them, using a handshake, high five, giving a few words of encouragement, asking them the simple question of how their morning is going. And so, a lot of these kids come from really chaotic families where the morning is really, really hectic. And so bringing that into the classroom is unhealthy. And so if we address and set the tone off since the beginning, we leave everything outside of the classroom and that allows the student to focus on learning for the inside portion. Now, it also provides meant the data shows that teachers mental health, it also improves. And so overall, it just benefits everybody. And so I think it's important that we start implementing similar strategies into our classrooms. The other journal that education journal that I wanted to highlight was the Funds of Knowledge. A journal written by Luis Moul, Cathy Manati, Deborah Neff, and Normal Gonzalez. And so this Funds of Knowledge journal highlights the importance of getting to know our students on a personal level, but not only that, getting to know them and their family in regards to how their day-to-day life is. So as a teacher, we need to resonate with the students. We need to ask them what their interests are. We need to get to know them. Do they play sports? What is their family structure like? Who is a provider in the household? And so this journal highlights all the important information that we need to extract from the student in order to fix our curriculum to their needs so that they could be more engaged in learning. And so finally or lastly, the TED Talk video that I wanted to highlight was one by Dr. Jason Conway. The four key elements that he points out in regards to building a classroom environment is one creating a sense of belonging for the students to feeling needed by others, three, equity, four value in action. And so it's important that we stick to those four things in order to provide a safe and learning environment not only for a few students but for all so that they all benefit from their educational journey. And so he also kind of noted the important to structure and interaction. So our opportunities to listen and be heard and opportunities to practice social skills. So going back and tying everything together, fudging knowledge, it's important that we extract that information from the students but we could also allow them to express their culture, their family, who they are as a person. And they can practice their social skills by working together in a group presenting listening to others, comparing, contrasting and overall using their social skills to get the message out to the classroom. So with that said, I want to thank you guys for your time. Thank you guys for tuning into this episode. And you guys have a good rest of your day. Don't forget to like, share and subscribe to the podcast. Thank you.