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Skaters changing lives in Classroom Champions program


Although they’ve accomplished so much in their skating careers, Meryl Davis and Char-


lie White are fi nding their experience as role models in the national Classroom Champions program equally rewarding. As mentors, the Olympic silver medalist ice dancers visit designated classrooms via


monthly video lessons and live video chats. In a recent Skype exchange with a fourth-grade class in Sherman, Texas, Davis talked about her challenges as a young person with dyslexia. Her candidness struck a chord with one of the boys in the class, who is also dyslexic. Davis stated to the class that she had been diagnosed when she


was in third grade and that reading was diffi cult for her until the 11th grade. “The moment Meryl said the word dyslexic, I looked at one of


my boys,” teacher Andrea Wiggins wrote in the Classroom Champi- ons website. “He was staring at me with his mouth open. See, he is also dyslexic and has a hard time with it because he is pulled out of my class for 45 minutes a day and misses whatever we are doing. He likes to be a part of everything and it really bothers him that he has to leave. “Something in his face changed for the bet-


ter in that moment. He connected with Meryl on such a huge level. She seemed to give him the sense of ‘It is OK to think diff erently.’ She talked about how her mind is wired diff erently and how that is OK.” Davis made such an impact on the


student, Wiggins said, that he asked if he could hang her picture up in the class- room that he goes to for his dyslexia. In that classroom is a wall of fame, with pictures of celebrities who are also dyslexic. “Thank you, Meryl, for being so open and honest about your strug- gles,” Wiggins wrote. “Because of it, I have a young man who goes to dys- lexia class now smiling because he knows it will one day get easier.”


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