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District Highlight: Davie County Schools - "Perspective | A High School Teacher’s Pen Pal Project Garners National Attention"
"Emails from around the country have been pouring into Ashley Snider’s inbox.
Snider, an English teacher at Davie County High School, implemented a class project in February that would unknowingly garner national media attention.
'This was powerful and beyond my wildest expectations,' said Snider, describing the Senior2Senior pen pal program, which received multiple media interviews, including one with USA Today. Since then, other people across the country have reached out to learn more about the program.
Snider was inspired by a project from the previous semester, 'Letters from Santa.' Her senior students created a letter-writing program to send to kids on Santa’s nice list. It was so successful that she wanted to replicate it in a different way during her spring semester.
In January, she connected with the local Davie County Senior Services, to discuss the possibility of a pen pal program between her seniors and the senior citizens in the community. Snider’s 48 students were randomly partnered with local senior citizens to write letters throughout the semester, culminating with a meet-up in May to collect the final letter in person."
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