Aspire Dream BLDRS™ with Haynes Middle School
Aspire has partnered with Haynes Middle School to bring our award-winning college and career readiness Dream BLDRS program to you!
We are thrilled to announce the launch of the second year of DREAM BLDRS, our College and Career Readiness Program at Haynes Middle School! Led by renowned speaker, Best-selling author, and educator Patrick Walker-Reese. Dream BLDRS is designed to empower our students with the knowledge, skills, and confidence they need to explore their future academic and career pathways through vision-based learning.
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Dream BLDRS
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Dream BLDRS at Haynes Middle School
Aspire’s Dream BLDRS program, now in its second year of collaboration with Haynes Middle School, continues to provide an unparalleled classroom experience designed to inspire and empower students.
This program offers students a series of workshops that contains three modules, each designed to empower them with the skills and mindset needed to shape and achieve their desired future: a vision statement activity that helps them articulate their aspirations, outlining what they aim to achieve in the future and how they plan to positively impact others along the way, exploring their personal strengths and learning how to develop effective personal branding strategies to support their goals, and identifying their passions by examining some of the world’s biggest challenges; fostering a sense of purpose and direction in their journey toward achieving their dreams.
DREAM BLDRS OBJECTIVES
- Encourage Future Aspirations: Help students articulate clear, actionable vision statements that align with their goals and highlight the importance of having a vision for their future.
- Foster Personal Growth: Develop students’ soft skills, social-emotional awareness, and self-confidence through engaging activities and self-reflection exercises.
- Equip Students for Success: Provide tools and strategies for identifying strengths, setting goals, and connecting personal ambitions with solutions to global issues.
- Enhance Engagement and Collaboration: Use interactive assessments, such as the animal characteristics activity, to build self-awareness, teamwork, and appreciation of diverse strengths and values.
The Power of DREAM BLDRS
Why Dream BLDRS?
The Dream BLDRS™ workshops integrated interactive sessions focusing on Vision creation, character assessment, personal branding, and ideal employee/company traits.
As students transition to high school and beyond, it’s crucial for them to start considering their future goals and the steps needed to achieve them. This program aims to inspire and equip them with the tools necessary for making informed decisions about their education and career paths.
The second year of Aspire’s Dream BLDRS program at Haynes Middle School focuses on equipping students with the tools and skills needed to shape their futures. This initiative aims to enhance students’ soft skills and foster their social-emotional well-being, providing a strong foundation for personal and professional growth. By helping students build confidence, resilience, and self-awareness, the program empowers them to work toward their aspirations and realize their full potential.
DREAM BLDRS EXPERIENCE HIGHLIGHTS
- Unique Incentive 1: Dream BLDRS Vision Statement Competition for Cash Prizes
- Unique Incentive 2: Patfacts 2: More Than A Dream book giveaway
- Unique Incentive 3: Pizza sponsored by Slim & Husky’s Pizzeria
- Enhanced Engagement: Dream BLDRS Closeout at NMAAM
Impact of Dream BLDRS
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Impact of Dream BLDRS
The impact of the Dream BLDRS program at Haynes Middle School began with understanding students’ social-emotional baseline through a school-wide pretest. Prior to the workshops, only 25.3% of students reported feeling extremely comfortable expressing their ideas openly, and just 48.5% rated themselves highly confident (a 6 on a 0-6 scale) in their ability to be successful. The program was designed with a clear objective: to significantly improve these metrics by focusing on self-confidence, communication skills, and a belief in their ability to achieve their goals. Through targeted activities and support, Dream BLDRS aimed to transform these numbers and inspire lasting student growth.
A glimpse of Aspire Dream BLDRS in action!
Dream BLDRS: Vision
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Dream BLDRS: Vision
Students categorized their vision statements across eight fields, with sports and entertainment leading at 38.9%, business at 16.1%, and healthcare at 13.7%. Only 1.2% of students were undecided, demonstrating strong engagement with their future aspirations. Additionally, 53.7% of students rated having a vision as “extremely important” on a 7-point scale, and 70.1% gave the vision module a perfect 5-star rating.
A glimpse of Aspire Dream BLDRS in action!
Dream BLDRS: Passion & Goal Setting
When it came to personal goals, the most common aspirations included improving grades (85.8%), earning money (75.7%), and graduating (71.7%). These goals aligned with students’ interest in solving major global issues, with violence (25.5%), homelessness (21.5%), and education (19.4%) ranking as their top concerns. In terms of daily priorities, 73.2% of students indicated they spent most of their time with family, and volunteering was the least selected activity at 24.6%.
A glimpse of Aspire Dream BLDRS in action!
Dream BLDRS: Strengths
In the strengths module, students reflected on their abilities and completed an animal characteristics assessment, which identified their strongest traits. Communication and visionary skills were the most common strengths, each at 76.3%, followed by supportiveness at 75% and integrity at 71.4%. Decisiveness was the least common strength at 46.1%. The assessment also revealed that students most often identified with the gorilla (50%), representing competitiveness, followed by the fox (47.4%) for compromise, the bear (30.3%) for accommodation, the rabbit (27.6%) for avoidance, and the owl (23.7%) for collaboration. This activity was highly rated, with 78.4% of students giving it a 5-star experience rating, underscoring the program’s ability to engage and inspire students in their journey toward personal and academic success. Overall, the dream BLDRS program continues to inspire students to dream big and equips them with the skills and confidence to turn those dreams into reality.
A glimpse of Aspire Dream BLDRS in action!
