Today we began our school day in our CMA (Corps Member Advisor) groups. My group consisted of myself, seven other corps members, and our corps member advisors. We went in a round-robin sharing our “vision” for our summer school classroom, with the others commenting on the positive aspects and on ways it could be improved. The other corps members seemed quite impressed by mine for some reason and hardly critiqued it at all.

Next, we attended a session that talked about the importance of having...