Best Year Ever provides teachers with proven classroom management strategies that can turn any classroom into a caring community, complete with high morale, infectious enthusiasm, and increased performance. This book is broken up into two sections. Section one ("Setting the Table for Success") will provide teachers with four key strategies to help build their students into a winning team that will be better prepared to learn. Section Two ("A Year-Long Theme That Focuses On Team") provides a step-by-step playbook for how to create a Best Year Ever! experience for students and teachers alike. This section includes lesson plans and activities to use with students that will set them up for success. Appendix 2 provides teachers with a 30 day supply of lesson plans to help build their teams and a safe learning environment.