This is a must-have book for anyone who works with young adolescents. "If You Can't Manage Them, You Can't Teach Them" dispenses straight-talking advice and can-do strategies that help every educator succeed at building the relationships, mutual respect, routines, and expectations for running a classroom without stress or chaos. Told in the manner of one teacher having a personal conversation with another, this is an ideal guide to building the behaviors that are the foundation of an effective classroom.