Classroom community is an integral part of facilitating a safe and supportive learning environment for students. Teachers, architects of community, recognize the importance of encouraging collaboration and respect among students in the classrooms and schools, and the value of nurturing atmospheres of respect. Teachers who are intentional about building successful, dimensional, and vibrant classroom communities can experience the joy of invested students who understand the value of respecting and challenging competing ideas and experiences. Through the creation of dynamic and supportive classroom communities, teachers are no longer responsible for serving as the sole overseer of the classroom; instead, teachers are positioned as active members of the conversations that occur within classrooms and among students. They are facilitators, and they help to model for their students the importance of exchanging ideas in a respectful manner, challenging one another to discover new knowledges, and creating spaces in which students can succeed in becoming critical thinkers. In addition to supporting the diverse stories and experiences that their students bring into their classroom communities, it is also important for teachers to engage in different communities. Teachers are not only members of their classrooms but also members of a larger "classroom of educators." They must strive to partake as invested members of professional communities. The classroom community, for both teachers and students, requires a proactive attitude and demands the willingness to support an environment of collegiality and respect.