Rule #2 of our Classroom Rules is “One person speaks and the others listen”. It has been around for 15 years. We have talked often over the years about how to make it and the other rules work when our kids need refocusing, for example here:
https://benslavic.com/blog/bail-out-moves-by-brian/
I have referred to that “stop-walk-smile” technique as level 1 in how we should react WHENEVER we are being interrupted TO ANY SLIGHT DEGREE by our kids. Then we talked about Level 2, in those infrequent cases when Level 1, the stop-walk-smile technique, doesn’t work. I asked Tina to make a video on that topic. Here it is: