Martha Agee, J.D., senior lecturer in accounting and business law for the Hankamer School of Business, allowed her students to earn additional points by donating school supplies and individual notes of hope and encouragement to a class of third-graders taught by Gaylen Tenberg at Marlin Primary Academy, a public elementary school in Marlin, Texas.

Agee and Tenberg turned the opportunity into a learning experience: Agee asked her Baylor students to name their hometown in their notes, and Tenberg used that information to help her students learn how to find those locations on a world map. Tenberg reported: “The third-grade students were so excited about using the world map to locate hometowns of the Baylor students who wrote them notes encouraging them to study hard and do their best.

They couldn’t believe people would travel all around the world to attend Baylor University, and one student made the connection that Baylor must be the best college in the world.”

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