VISION
Dreamline’s vision is a future where young people everywhere feel interconnected and empowered to envision a better world and work together to create it.

MISSION
Dreamline’s mission is to promote hope, connection and belonging by providing educators with resources to inspire, capture and share young people’s dreams for the future on a global scale. Dreamline supports its mission with professional development, project materials, events, and a worldwide network of leaders and participants.

VALUES
Dreamline is driven by the following value set:

Me to We
Our programs help participants experience being part of something bigger than themselves and to recognize our global interconnectedness. The physical Dreamlines to which individual Dream Banners are attached are a concrete example of strength in connection and a metaphor reminding students that we need each other in order to pursue our dreams.

Authenticity
Dreamline invites students to express their true values and dreams, not to mimic or mime “the right answer.”  This invitation invites vulnerability, a risk that is mitigated by the models of the many other participants who have already taken the risk of being real.

Radical Belonging
Dreamline seeks to provide valuable resources to all. Dreamline works with both underserved and well-served groups, recognizing that we all need each other in relationships of reciprocity. Dreamline programs have engaged students from inner Los Angeles to a fly-in village of Alaska, from the suburbs of Chicago to a Himalayan village in Nepal, and from the International School of Paris to Dunbar Elementary School in North Philadelphia. 

Global Community
Because Dreamline programs meet the universal need for hope, purpose, and belonging, they have engaged students across geographic, political, cultural and socio-economic barriers that normally divide people, and especially educational organizations. While the primary language of Dreamline is English, and many non-US groups participate through English as a Second Language programs, our online gallery includes Dream Banners written in Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Portuguese, Spanish, Nahuatl, French, Haitian, Kinyarwandan, Tibetan and other languages.  

Handmade Hope
Each Dream Banner is made by the hand of an individual student, demonstrating the value of the individual in Dreamline’s work. No two are alike. Each provides a vision of change, founded on hope. And Dreamline’s public events and exhibitions allow adults and others to access the hopes that all students  bring to school.

Voice
Dreamline values every student’s voice. We do not allow contests or awards for individual Dreamline Banners. Each Dreamline Banner is the same physical size, demonstrating that each voice gets the same space, that each has value. In addition to each Banner voicing students’ dreams with art and written words, Dreamline’s gallery includes audio recordings of hundreds of students reading their dreams, demonstrating  the value and humanity of each individual voice.