A Celebration of DreamWakers Volunteers — April is National Volunteer Month — a month dedicated to celebrating the important contributions that volunteers make by donating their time and talent to causes they believe in. DreamWakers relies on our robust and dedicated community of volunteers who continually harness their gifts to pour into the next generation. We…

Moments from DreamWakers Black History Month Celebration — Every February, in celebration and acknowledgment of Black History Month, we highlight our incredible Black DreamSpeakers who share their stories with the next generation. This year, our DreamEducators came to us with a record number of BHM flashchat requests. As a result, we hosted 51 flashchats this February, reaching nearly…

Despite it all, we dream. That is our greatest resistance. — W. Shayk — When Annie Medaglia and Monica Logothetis founded DreamWakers in 2014 to connect professionals to classrooms in rural Virginia, they could only imagine the importance of virtual learning in today’s world. Now, seven years and a global pandemic later, DreamWakers is especially grateful to have been able to apply lessons learned…

Autumn reflections on a wonderful year — Each Fall, particularly as November arrives, our team at DreamWakers takes a look back at the past months to reflect on the year’s highlights. Our gratitude is abundant this year, so we felt compelled to share with the DreamWakers community the ever-growing list of things we are grateful for in…

Introducing the 2021–22 DreamWakers Educator Fellows — Each school year, DreamWakers welcomes a new cohort of Educator Fellows (DWEF). This group comprises extraordinary leaders that come from schools across the country, each of whom has proven their commitment to embracing flashchats as part of a well-rounded curriculum. Members of DWEF are dedicated to providing opportunities for their…

Celebrating our 2021 DreamWakers Awardees — DreamWakers aims to close the opportunity gap for students in under-resourced schools by providing them with the unique opportunity to meet career role models from diverse backgrounds, identities, and perspectives beyond their city limits. We could not live out this mission without our incredible community of educators, speakers, schools, volunteers…

A DreamEducator Guest Post by Jennifer Barefoot — Since joining DreamWakers in January of 2019, Jennifer Barefoot, a Media Specialist at Grovetown Middle School in Georgia, has made a huge impact in our community. She has helped her colleagues host more than 30 flashchats for the students of GMS, was named our 2020 Educator of…

Our DreamSpeakers are experts in their fields and have been doing this speaking thing for a while. DreamSpeakers Tracy Drain, Wren Weichman, Brianna McGowan, Darius Nabors, and Kim Arcand have also been a part of some amazing TED Talks sharing their advice with an even larger audience. Collectively, these five…

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said: “Only in the darkness can you see the stars.” Despite the historic trials of the 2020–2021 academic year, our educators and students not only made it through, they even came out on the other side with some unexpected gratitude for the year’s silver…