I'm not sure what the best approach is, I can say that the only approach is to listen to the children, to talk to them, which I think we're doing pretty well. film, but you have to listen and sometimes we have to make sure their voices are heard and we take some of those things into consideration. I think a lot of my success as a principal was because the kids knew that no matter what happened, good, bad, indifferent, that I was going to take care of them, they could always come to me and that I was going to take care of them and sometimes that meant suspending them. I think kids need to know that you love them and I know that sounds trite and cheesy. I had no problem telling my students in the hallway every day that I loved them. They need to know that you are ready to fight for them. They noted that you're going to hold them to a certain standard and it's going to be like that. You have to build that relationship. You have to maintain that relationship when I was a principal, I had an assembly on the first day of school and people would come to our school and be amazed that I was teaching kids to do this. the children's auditorium is dedicated and I would also do it in the cafeteria, basic philosophy you have to give children the opportunity to do things, we put so many rules in place and then we don't give children the opportunity to 'break the rules or obey. the rules. We stay so in touch with them that they don't have the opportunity to make their own decisions about doing what is right in these situations, they have always believed in giving children the opportunity to do what is right. 'they do, so in the cafeteria, they must not do it. jump on the table or do something like that, you know, the noise level doesn't bother me from that point of view. As long as you're not messing with anyone else and I asked you to be quiet and we were okay with that because I believe that just like you're in class and you get to halfway through period and the kids are getting up and stretching, I would go further and have them get up in their seats and jump and do things like that to get that energy out.