Every day every member of a classroom community has a golden opportunity to powerfully and positively impact others—with kindness, positive energy, gestures of friendship, and other good deeds. When educators encourage strong student-to-student connections, our classrooms become happier places, the need for belonging that all of us have is met, the sense of “connectedness” that children feel to one another and to the class as a whole increases, and greater learning gains result. In this episode Steve shares specific strategies that elementary teachers can use to build strong student-to-student connections.