How to give students connection BEFORE correction

Providing students with safety and connection contributes to a positive, supportive, and nurturing classroom environment that benefits everyone. How to achieve it?

School has started, and our students have begun pouring into our classrooms, full of energy, stories about the summer, and most importantly, a sense of newness. Everything about the school year is new. They might have the same teacher or most of the students might be the same peers they had last year, but in essence, a new school year brings with it a sense of starting over.