With over ten years of teaching experience, I have found that if you hold your students to a high standard, and you establish a learning environment of safety, positivity, encouragement, and growth, then your students will find both academic and personal success. A believer in both the Theory of Multiple Intelligences, as well as the Zone of Proximal Development, educators are a crucial factor in our students' achievement. If we build our classrooms for success, then only good things can come.