Journal of Management Education 2017, Vol. 41(1) 3–8 © The Author(s) 2016 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1052562916680386 jme.sagepub.com Editors’ Corner How to Be a Superhero: Engaging Students With Learning Disabilities in Our Classrooms Kathy Lund Dean 1 and Jeanie M. Forray 2 At the start of each semester, we become reacquainted with students’ varied learning needs in each different section of each different course. It is also a time in the semester where we are made aware of students with specific learning difficulties, usually via private conversations with them, classroom observa- tions, and letters from our intrepid student disabilities services folks. But, what does student learning “accommodation” mean as a broadly based construct for management educators? What does the growing population of students in col- lege who have learning disabilities (LDs) mean for each of us? How do we respond positively but equitably to student needs as a balance to strike between those who need more help and those who do not? Ultimately, we are consider- ing what caring looks like for students in need, and how some best practices could allow us to have a superhero-like impact on those students. The range of student learning abilities in our classrooms continues to grow (Krupnick, 2014). Due in large part to better and earlier LD diagnoses for students, coupled with increased breadth in recruiting efforts at a postsecond- ary level, it is likely that more of us have more students with LDs in our classes even when they are not “officially” reported. Each semester, the real- ity of such variety raises questions about how we should respond to different student learning needs: what we must do (considering the law), what we 1 Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN, USA 2 Western New England University, Springfield, MA, USA Corresponding Author: Kathy Lund Dean, Gustavus Adolphus College, 800 West College, St. Peter, MN 56082, USA. Email: editor@obts.org 680386JME XX X 10.1177/1052562916680386Journal of Management EducationLund Dean & Forray editorial 2016