By: Melody, AmeriCorps Promise Fellow serving at Hazel Park Preparatory Academy in St. Paul

I have a 6th grader who struggles with attention and behavior in class, but he's very smart and one of the sweetest kids. He said to me this morning, "I wasn't thinking about coming to school today because I was tired, but then I thought about going to Ms. Melody's office and that helped me get up and go to school."