The Dream Flag Project

"The Dream Flag Project gave us an opportunity to look inside ourselves to discover what is most important to each of us."
--Second Grade Teacher, '04 participant

The Dream Flag Project Press Page
The Dream Flag Project welcomes inquiries by the press to help share the story of our project and to further our efforts to connect the dreams of students everywhere. The project is funded by and is part of The Agnes Irwin School, Rosemont, PA, USA.

1/27/09 For Release: Local and National/International Teacher Workshop January 30, 11am - 1 pm, Merck Education of The Philadelphia Kimmel Center Teachers from Philadelphia public and suburban schools will gather in the Merck Education Room of the Kimmel Center along with on-line participants and presenters from from Texas, Alaska, California, New York, Virginia, Alabama, Washington State, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Romania, and Kenya to learn about the Agnes Irwin School’s Dream Flag Project. It all happens this Saturday when The Agnes Irwin School and the Kimmel Center co-host this free resource for teachers. An exchange of ideas and inspiration will span the miles as do the Dream Flags--connected original dream poems on fabric--that their students will make as part of this year's annual Dream Flag Project. To date, 628 teachers have signed up for this year's project. More than 11,239 students will be creating original  Dream Flags and connecting them, and on April 17th, many will connect in the atrium of Philadelphia's Kimmel Center Commonwealth Plaza for the annual Dream Flag Project Celebration. Saturday's workshop program will include: Overview and history of The Dream Flag Project from project founders Sandy Crow and Jeff Harlan. Teacher presentations on making flags from Independence Charter School. Panel discussion of whole-school participation by teachers from Montessori Genesis II in West Philadelphia and White Mt. School in White Mt., Alaska. Presentation on value of international connections by leader of Juhdi Children’s Club in Nairobi, Kenya. Ideas will fly on Saturday and then turn to flying and connecting dreams in classrooms across the U.S. and across the oceans.

Current List of Dream Flag Participants

About The Dream Flag Project (pdf)

Contact:

Caralyn Gilotti Director of Communications The Agnes Irwin school	cgilotti@agnesirwin.org 610-525-8400 x1678
Jeff Harlan, Director of The Dream Flag Project Sandy Dean, Assist. Director of The Dream Flag Project	dreamflags@agnesirwin.org phone: 610-525-8400 x1703 fax: 610-525-8908
The Dream Flag Project www.dreamflags.org The Agnes Irwin School / Ithan Ave. & Conestoga Rd. / Rosemont, PA 19103 USA

2009 Participation
10,748 students  626 teachers  96 schools and organizations in
23 states of the US and in Costa Rica, Kenya, Nepal, Rwanda, South Africa, and Trinidad and Tobago.

2009 Philadelphia Dream Flag Celebration Photos (Unless otherwise noted.)
April 18, 2009, Commonwealth Plaza, Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

Celebration Story Details

Drum Group 2	Drum Group 3	Drum Group 4	Flags 1	Falgs 2
Flags 3	Flags 4	Flags 5	Reader 1	Reader 2
Reader 4	Reader 5	Reader 6	Rwanda Flags 1	Rwanda Flags 2
Rwanda Speaker Lily Yeh brought The Dream Flag Project to Rwanda.	Stage(2005 Shot) Photo from 2005 Celebration	Stage 1	Stage 2