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Dreams are unfinished pictures in your heart
With the paint brush always lying near
--Julia M.
6th Grade


Dream Flag News
Ongoing PARTICIPANT LIST -- Dream Flag Project CALENDAR

UPDATES

4/27/05 News Note #6 -- The Final Note!

  • The Final Note (but not the last note . . .)
  • April 16th: A Dream Come True!
  • Dream Flags "On Parade"
  • Keeping the Dreams On-Line
  • Dreamer T!
  • We Need Your Voice

3/23/05: Great news about sites for Dream Flag Exhibitions after April 16th!
Here's where Dream Flags will be displayed:

  • Phillies Stadium! (Citizen's Park) For the week of April 18-22, some of the Dream Flags will be on display in the entrance lobby of the VIP area. (We hoped for outside too, but they thought it wasn't safe enough.)

  • Children's Hospital of Philadelphia! Flags will be installed on around Tuesday, April 19th, and stay up for two weeks. They will be in the Main Building in the third floor atrium and in the Sea Shore House (where long-term care patients live).

  • Bryn Mawr Hospital! Flags will go up the week of April 18th and stay up for two weeks. They will be in the main lobby and post-surgery waiting room for families.

  • St. Christopher's Hospital for Children! Flags will go up the week of April 18th and stay up for about two weeks. Display location will be announced later.

3/18/05: News Notes #5 In this issue . . .

  • Dreams Are In The Air

  • Notes on Decorating Dream Flags

  • Putting Your Dream Flags On A Line

  • Connecting the Dreams ON-LINE

  • Takin' Them to the Street (or hallway)

  • Survey Summary

3/7/05: News Notes #4 In this issue . . .

  • Staying the Course

  • Calendar Notes

  • Dream Poem Writing

  • Connecting the Dreams

2/18/05: News Notes #3 In this issue . . .

  • News from the Schools

  • Lesson Extensions

  • Fabric Ideas

  • Where Will Your Words Go?

2/8/05: News Notes #2: In this issue. . .

  • First Week of the Project

  • Poem Ideas

  • Mentor Schools Program

  • The Dream Flag Celebration in April

2/4/05: We're up to 36 participant groups in seven states! (See list below.) Also, percussionist Ron Kravitz has agreed to play again for the Dream Flag Celebration on April 16th. Great news!

1/28/05 News Notes #1: periodic publication for all Dream Flags participants. In this issue . . .

  • Welcome to the Project

  • Ideas for the First Week

  • Important Dates and Calendar Items

  • Langston Hughes and Writing Resources.

1/19/05
Participants: We're up to 31 participant groups now in PA, MD, DC, VA and OH!
Musicians: Also musicians Andrea Clearfield and Manfred Fischbeck (who performed so incredibly with at the Dream Flag Project Celebration in '04) have said they could do it again! You can check out Andrea Clearfield's web site to learn more about her music.
Mentors: Many of last year's schools and groups have agreed to be mentor schools to this year's new participants. Thanks to them, there will be more ways to find out how to make The Dream Flag Project a fabulous experience for all involved. Emails have already started going back and forth.

12/17/04 To date, 29 groups have committed to participation in The Dream Flag Project for 2005! It's a fabulous collection of people, places, and dreams. Check out the list below and visit the sites. These are the people that you will work with, starting on February 1st, the 103rd birthday of Langston Hughes!

To accommodate the holiday rush, sign-up deadline has been extended to January 10, 2005. Interested schools should email dreamflags@agnesirwin.org by that date.

12/10/04 April 16 is set as the date for the Philadelphia Regional Dream Flag Celebration at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts at Broad and Spruce in Philadelphia. Details will be upcoming, and ALL participant groups will be invited to send flags and have poems read at the Celebration.

11/29/04 Schools in the Philadelphia area and beyond are joining the project. To date, there are fifteen schools committed--14 in the Philly area and 1 in Ohio. We brought brochures to the NCTE conference in Indianapolis! Many more schools have expressed interest and not yet committed, particularly in the DC area.  See the list of participant schools below.

Date for committing to the '05 Dream Flag Project is December 15th. Invite your friends!

Ongoing Participant List:
In order of joining. Last Update 2/4/05
36 participant groups from PA, MD, DC, MA, OH, VA, and GA.

The Agnes Irwin School, Rosemont, PA. Grade: 6. Participants: 54.
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Greenwood Elementary School, Kennett Square, PA. Grade: 1. Participants: TBA ViewSite

The Philadelphia School, Philadelphia, PA. Grade: 3 Participants: TBA. ViewSite

Berlin Community School, Berlin, NJ. Grade: TBA. Participants: TBA.
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William Penn Charter School, Philadelphia, PA. Grade: TBA. Participants: TBA. ViewSite

Friends Select School, Philadelphia, PA. Grade: TBA. Participants: TBA. ViewSite

Montessori Genesis II School, Philadelphia, PA. Grade: TBA. Participants: TBA. ViewSite

French International School, Bala Cynwyd, PA. Grade: TBA. Participants: TBA. ViewSite

Project Learn, Philadelphia, PA. Grade: TBA. Participants: TBA. ViewSite

Flint Hill School, Oakton, VA. 9th, 10th, and 12th Grade. Grade: 9, 10, 12. Participants: TBA. ViewSite

Germantown Friends School, Philadelphia, PA. Grade: 6. Participants: 66. ViewSite

John Wister Elementary School, Philadelphia, PA. Grade: K-6.
Participants: 475. ViewSite

Philadelphia City Institute Library, Philadelphia, PA. Grade: Mixed. Participants: TBA. ViewSite

Germantown Academy, Fort Washington, PA. Grades: 7.  Participants: 93.

The Shipley School, Bryn Mawr, PA. Grade: 8 (Spanish). Participants: 32

Berlin Township School District, West Berlin, NJ. Grades: TBA. Participants: 100.

McAuley High School, Cincinnati, OH. Grade: 9-10. Participants: 175. ViewSite

Episcopal Academy, Merion, PA. Grade: 6. Participants: TBA.

The Baldwin School, Bryn Mawr, PA. Grades: TBA. Participants: TBA. ViewSite

Abington Friends School, Jenkintown, PA. Grades: TBA. Participants: TBA ViewSite

George Washington Elementary School, Philadelphia, PA. Grades: Pre-K - 8. Participants: 200. ViewSite

Loomis Elementary School, Broomall, PA. Grades: K-5. Participants: 200

Virginia Beach Friends School, Virginia Beach, VA. Grades: K-12. Participants: 225. ViewSite

Albert M. Greenfield School, Philadelphia, PA. Grades: K, 1, 3, Mixed. Participants: 1. ViewSite

E. M. Stanton School, Philadelphia, PA. Grades: Pre-K, 2. Participants: 39. ViewSite

Sidney Hillman Senior Center, Philadelphia, PA. (In collaboration with Albert M. Greenfield School) Participants: TBA. ViewSite

Belmont Charter School, Philadelphia, PA. Grades: 2-7, mixed. Participants: TBA.

Lafayette Elementary School, Washington, DC. Grades: TBA. Participants: TBA. ViewSite

Chestnut Hill Academy, Philadelphia, PA. Grades: 2+. Participants: TBA. ViewSite

Glendarden Woods Elementary School, Glenarden, MD. Grades: 5, 6. Participants: 118. ViewSite

Lafayette Elementary School, Washington, DC. Grades: TBA. Participants: TBA.

Reading High School, Reading, PA. Grade: 9. Participants: 120. ViewSite

Westtown School, Westtown, PA. Grade: 3. Participants: 36. ViewSite

New Mission High School, Boston, MA. Grade: 9-12. Participants: TBA. ViewSite

The Lovett School, Atlanta, GA. Grade: 5. Participants: TBA. ViewSite

The Springside School, Philadelphia, PA. Grade: TBA. Participants: TBA. ViewSite

Here's a map of participant schools in the Philadelphia area last year. Maybe this year we'll need a bigger map?

 

The Dream Flag concept was created by sixth grade teachers Jeff Harlan, Sandy Crow, Helen Holt and others at The Agnes Irwin School, Rosemont, Pennsylvania, U.S. The Dream Flag Project (www.dreamflags.org) is a collaborative project facilitated by Jeff Harlan and Sandy Crow. Contact dreamflags@agnesirwin.org or Jeff Harlan, Dream Flags Project Director, The Agnes Irwin School, Ithan Ave. and Conestoga Road, Rosemont, PA 19010, U.S. A.

. . . for Helen