Adolescents learn best through active engagement with ideas, the environment, and other learners. Teachers of adolescent students use multiple learning and teaching approaches that respond to student diversity. Middle level classrooms are complex, and dynamic, environments where individuals, and small groups of students, simultaneously engage in a wide variety of tasks. This article presents a discussion of connections between middle level concepts of teaching and learning and managing a classroom through creating opportunities for active and engaged learning. The article argues and concludes that classroom management is more about managing learning than managing behavior and that one effective way to manage student behavior is to create an environment where students continuously engage in active learning.