"What a powerful experience
of joining the self with the rest of the world."
---Middle School Teacher, '04 participant
"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.
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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 |
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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
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Drum Group 2
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Flags 1
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Flags 5
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Rwanda Flags 1
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Rwanda Speaker
Lily Yeh brought The Dream Flag Project to Rwanda. |
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Stage(2005 Shot)
Photo from 2005 Celebration |
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Stage 1
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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.
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