ABSTRACT
There are several ways to start the first week of school. Students certainly know who the boss is the minute they enter and that they are, indeed, just visitors in their room. As the all-important first week of school progressed, the author went about dictating rules, establishing who was in control, and setting tight boundaries for the year. The authors pose the enticing idea of making it appear that your students themselves are coming up with the classroom rules and procedures, thus facilitating buy-in as you steer them to the inevitable conclusion. The rest of that first week of school was an actual blur. Most teachers such as veteran and new are dazed by the end of the first week, caught up in the anxiousness to get started with curriculum. Students can see through any phoniness, and an act is hard to keep up for more than a few days.
