Discussed in this Episode: 

✅ The Finn story: a student who pushed peers over to be first, because teachers had rewarded being first every time. 

✅ The ODD student who derailed lessons by saying “this is stupid, this is boring, this is dumb,” then was met by a social script written in his own language. 

✅ The little girl who twisted her glue stick too far, broke it, and became upset. Sue used calm co-regulation: “Uh-oh, it’ll break. We need to roll it back down. Let’s do it together.” 

✅Audrey, the PDA student whose voice would turn angry while negotiating (“Can I just do this bit? Can I work with this person?”). 

✅ The OCD student (twice exceptional, very high IQ) who took a long time to move between classes because of constant checking and end-of-lesson questions. 

✅ The autism school strategy: doing the daily schedule cut, paste, and place activity every single day so children with autism experienced repeated success. 

✅ The Zoom workshop experiment: educators were asked to pull out their phones, pick a task they had been avoiding, and set a timer for the weekend to start it. 

✅ Hand-over-hand cutting practice with the student’s flapping arm tucked in, so the paper stayed steady. 

✅ Writing a social script that used the exact phrases her ODD student had been using (boring, stupid), eventually turning them into a shared joke once trust was built. 

✅ Letting an ADHD child who always needs to win be the umpire, starter, or ribbon-giver at sports day so they could stay regulated and involved.

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