DISORGANIZED, unkempt, or clutter-filled classroom sends the message to your students that poor behavior and middling work habits are acceptable, regardless of how often or how forcefully you say otherwise. Because if your classroom environment doesn’t match your call for excellence, hard work, and respect, then you might as well be talking to the art projects fading and curling on your walls. Stacked boxes, messy work areas, disorganized and overflowing cabinets, cramped aisles and walkways, papers piled on your desk, various materials and resources jumbled here and there . . . Clearing it
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