Your ability to reach out, influence, collaborate, become an authority and someone people want to work with is determined by your decisions before entering a room.

This guide includes 25 challenges and principles for teachers. It describes the two ways to walk into your classroom. Teachers live in a world of relationships. How teachers are perceived by their students determines trust, cooperation, focus and the results of the teaching.

Keywords: classroom management, trust, teaching proficiency, body-language, nonverbal communication, focus, leadership in the classroom, macro-micro group development.

Welcome to a practical e-book on the art and science of walking into a room.

John Steinberg, PhD, is the author of 55 practical books about leadership, values, education and learning.