Last school year I had to face a great challenge. I passed from teaching children from high or medium-high income families to teaching children from very low-income families. When the year started I realized that one of my students was very aggressive, tended to break things and could not sit still for two minutes. I tried correcting the student by being strong and having high expectations, but the student would not respond. The stronger I was the less response I got, every time that I tried correcting the student, the student would shrink  shoulders and look down ignoring me. ... After having the student talk to the principal, I scheduled a meeting with the student and the mother. In the meeting we discussed the student’s behavior and we also created a contract that the mother, the student and I signed. They took home the original contract and I kept a copy. The idea for creating this contract was to start a behavior plan in which everyone had the same expectations. Every day the student and I examined the student's behavior for the day, and on Thursday, which was the last day of class for 4-year-old kindergarten I would send home a report that would be compared with the behavior at home, and if the behavior in both places had improved the student would get a treat that could be from watching a favorite movie, to going out for dinner, whatever the mom and the student agreed. After being in that behavior plan for about a month, the student’s behavior started to change; the student seemed happier and more willing to cooperate. As the student's behavior improved you could see pride developing. The student liked receiving positive feedback. As the time went on and the student maintained good behavior, the student got to a point of being named the student of the month. Being the student of the month made such a great difference in the student's life that the behavior and attitude toward school kept getting better and better. I just hope that having had a good 4-year-old kindergarten experience makes a difference in this young person's life.