Educators and parents alike can find themselves stuck when trying to set expectations for multiple children at a time. If you lower the bar or ignore behaviors for one child, does that mean you have to do it for everyone? If the other students see one student "getting away with it", does that mean they think they can to?

Nope!
 
The key is having a chat with the kids in advance that you're such a good parent/teacher that you know that everyone's brain is different and that each brain needs different things to be successful. That applies to learning how to read and do math AND learning behavior and rules. Let them know that you will likely respond to different things in different ways depending on who they are, how their brain learns, and what their brain can do right then. Sometimes you might ignore something, sometimes you might snap your fingers and raise your eye brows, sometimes you might offer a hug...and you've got tons of other options in your tool kit. But if they ever see you point to this sign on the wall, that means you've got it, you are just being intentional about responding in a specific way to support that kid with learning in that moment...even if that's not what you do with them.

This frees the adults up to handle things differently in any given moment with any given kid. And if a kid objects or says "that's not fair!", remind them that their brain doesn't work the same and that they need something different to be successful.

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