Aspire - Dream bldrs
Program Overview
For the first semester of the 2024-25 school year, Wright Middle School partnered with Aspire’s Dream BLDRS program to provide an exceptional learning experience for their students. Through this initiative, students engaged in a vision statement activity, allowing them to articulate their future aspirations and outline how they plan to contribute positively to others. This process included identifying their strengths and developing personal branding strategies that would serve as leverage in achieving their long-term goals. The Dream BLDRS program aimed to inspire students to take proactive steps toward their dreams while fostering a deeper sense of purpose.
- Empower students to articulate their aspirations: Facilitate activities that help students create comprehensive vision statements outlining their future goals and how they plan to contribute to society.
- Enhance soft skills and social-emotional learning: Provide tools and workshops to improve students' confidence, communication, and interpersonal skills to prepare them for future success.
- Identify and leverage personal strengths: Guide students in recognizing their strengths and developing personal branding strategies to support their ambitions.
- Foster self-expression and engagement: Create an intimate and supportive environment, particularly for second-language English speakers, to ensure active participation and personalized learning experiences.
College & Career Readiness
Unique Incentives
Guest Speakers
A glimpse of Aspire Dream BLDRS in action!
Rated 5 out of 5 Stars!
Student Reactions
Every student (100%) rated their personal branding workshop experience 5 out of 5 stars. Students expressed genuine enjoyment of the workshops, with one remarking that their biggest takeaway was learning the importance of writing down goals to increase the likelihood of achieving them.
DREAM BLDRS
Why This Matters
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.
A glimpse of Aspire Dream BLDRS in action!
DREAM BLDRS HIGHLIGHTS
- Dream BLDRS college and career readiness socio-emotional learning (SEL) workshops utilizing creative approaches to reveal the tools and techniques for dream building.
- Unique Incentives: limited edition BeTheDream t-shirt giveaways for high participation, book giveaways: PatFacts 2: More Than a Dream and The Book of Vision, cash prizes for winners from the vision statement competition in the Dream BLDRS Goal Setting workshop.
- In-depth Q&A with the Aspire team: Patrick Walker-Reese, Christina Raiford, and Malik Yant
- Guest Speakers: Meet and greet with business leaders like the Founders of Slim & Husky's, NFL & NBA athletes, Grammy-winning artists, community leaders, and more!
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DREAM BLDRS at Wright Middle School
The Dream BLDRS™ workshops integrated interactive sessions focusing on Vision creation, character assessment, personal branding, and ideal employee/company traits.
The Dream BLDRS program was introduced at Wright Middle School with the goal of enhancing students' soft skills, supporting their social-emotional well-being, and equipping them with essential tools to realize their future ambitions. By focusing on personal development and self-expression, the program aimed to build students' confidence, communication abilities, and overall readiness for future academic and professional challenges.
DREAM BLDRS
INSIGHT
The workshop involved 17 eighth-grade students, 52.9% of whom were females and 47.1% males.
Notably, all participating students were second-language English speakers, which contributed to the workshop’s intimate and personalized atmosphere.
The small group size facilitated deeper engagement and allowed each student to express themselves more freely and gain valuable feedback from peers and instructors.
DREAM BLDRS
MEASURABLE IMPACT
Dream BLDRS - Data-Driven Results:
Before the program's core activities began, students completed an assessment to determine their initial social-emotional standing. Results showed that only 35.7% of students felt comfortable expressing their ideas openly, and just 42% were confident in their ability to be successful. The Dream BLDRS program aimed to improve these numbers significantly.
Quick Takeaways:
- 35.7% of students reported they felt comfortable expressing their ideas openly.
- 42% were confident in their ability to be successful.
DREAM BLDRS: Vision
Dream BLDRS: Vision
Participants developed vision statements based on their career aspirations.
The vision statements revealed that 35.7% of students were interested in “sports and entertainment,” with one student, Anthony Becerra, stating, “I am Anthony Becerra. I will be a professional soccer player who gives a portion of my salary to the homeless.” The second most common aspiration was in “business,” chosen by 21.4% of students.
Career Aspirations
SPORTS AND ENTERTAINMENT
BUSINESS
Student Vision Statement:
I am Anthony Becerra. I will be a professional soccer player who gives a portion of my salary to the homeless.
DREAM BLDRS: Strengths
IMPACT: DREAM BLDRS By The Numbers
Dream BLDRS: Strengths
Dream BLDRS: Strengths and Conflict Resolution Workshop. Participants identified their strengths and conflict resolution styles. Top strengths were:
- Support (86.7%)
- Communication (73.3%)
- Visionary (80%)
- Optimistic (60%)
Conflict resolution styles
Students also completed the Dream BLDRS Strength assessments to discover their conflict management characteristics, with 60% identifying as owls, signifying a preference for collaboration. Bears, representing an accommodating style, were next at 33.3%, while 33.3% identified as gorillas (competitive) and rabbits (avoidant). Only 20% identified as foxes, who value compromise. An impressive 80% of students rated their experience in the strengths assessment 5 out of 5 stars!
STRENGTHS
OWLS
STRENGTHS
BEARS
STRENGTHS
GORILLAS
STRENGTHS
FOXES
STRENGTHS
RABBITS
Dream BLDRS: Personal Branding
Personal Branding: Data
During the personal branding workshop, 60% of students identified “interests and passions” as key brand traits, while 50% emphasized “values” and “vision,” and 30% selected “mission” and “strength.”
When asked to identify the top traits of an ideal employee, “intelligence” was most frequently chosen (90%), followed by “confidence” (80%), “hardworking” (70%), “honesty” (60%), and both “display leadership” and “successful” at 50%. The top traits for building a company included “leadership,” “passion,” and “uniqueness” (all at 90%), with “audience knowledge” at 80% and “competitiveness” and “consistency” at 60%. Exposure was rated by 30%.
In terms of self-perception, 60% of students described themselves as future skills/trade professionals, while the remaining 40% saw themselves as either future college students or entrepreneurs.
Rated 5 out of 5 Stars!
Student Reactions
Every student (100%) rated their personal branding workshop experience 5 out of 5 stars. Students expressed genuine enjoyment of the workshops, with one remarking that their biggest takeaway was learning the importance of writing down goals to increase the likelihood of achieving them.
Dream BLDRS Closeout at Wright Middle School
A glimpse of Aspire Dream BLDRS in action!
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DREAM BLDRS
Parent Involvement
We believe that family support plays a vital role in a student's success. We encourage you to engage with your child about what they’re learning and to participate in our closing event in December, where students will showcase their projects and share their experiences.
If you have any questions or need further information, please contact us at info@live2aspire.com or follow us on Instagram @live2aspire. We look forward to an exciting and transformative experience for our students! Thank you for your continued support in helping them prepare for their futures.
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