Each school year, educators, students, and families prepare for a new, yet familiar rhythm. Despite many teachers’ best planned lessons, best decorated boards, and most innovative stations, they may be surprised to find that some of their students are simply not learning, are having trouble paying attention, or are even too emotionally dysregulated to engage in the basics of math, writing, and reading. There are a lot of good reasons this could be going on, and we might jump to ADHD, ODD, laziness, or any number of common “culprits” behind such behaviors. If we forget to investigate why those behaviors