Making students feel comfortable in their classrooms is very important in the enterprise of education. One way to make our students feel comfortable is to support their use of Black English and Latino English. When dealing with incorrect uses of Standard English, we need to not just tell our students what they are doing wrong and to change it, but we need to show them what they are doing wrong and explain to them how to change it. We need to show them that it is alright to use Black English and Latino English, but there is a time and place for it, and the school setting is not that place. We need to inform them about "code switching" (changing from one language to the next depending on the setting), and when the right times are to use certain kinds of language. If we can show our students that we respect their heritage and who they are by respecting their languages, then we have taken the first step in making them feel more comfortable in our classroom. Another way to make our students feel comfortable is to engage them into the classroom and the material that is being presented. As teachers, we need to make sure that we do everything in our power to engage our students, because if we don't, well then what does that mean for those students who are left out. So, How else can we make our students feel comfortable in our classrooms? What do you think about these two ideas? Do they make sense or not? Do you think that it is really important to make our students feel comfortable or should that be something on the bottom of our list?