• Children who have better/closer relationships with their teachers feel more supported by their peers

• Students who have conflicts with their teachers feel more peer victimization which leads to school avoidance, behavioral issues, and peer dislike

• Better behavior management leads to less peer victimization in the classroom

• "Teachers play a critical role in shaping children’s beliefs about their own strengths and weakness in social interactions and about the classroom social environment, which operates uniquely beyond the influence of children’s actual peer social interactions"

• A teacher's influence at the individual level is different from their influence at the classroom level