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Running through the selection of research compiled in this section is the common theme best summarized by Stronge (2007): “effective teachers care for the student first as a person, and second as a student. They respect each student first as an individual.”  One essential component of coming to know students as individuals is the one emphasized by Marzano and Marzano (2003): “teacher-student relationships are too important to be left to chance. Teacher must intentionally cultivate and strengthen student relationships.”  This idea is reinforced by McEwan’s call for teachers to “intentionally nurture positive relationships with their students” (2008).

These studies emphasize that the number one job for teachers is not to teach their subject matter but to get to know their students well enough to form strong and meaningful bonds with them. Though learning is certainly the end goal, building relationships is the most effective way to reach students and achieve that learning. This emphasis is perhaps more evident to:
 * an elementary school teacher who sees the same kids
 * all day every day for an entire school year,
 * but for the high school teacher rotating through 170 students for 18 weeks before the semester switches and another 170 come through the door, it is a much harder goal to achieve.