WellMet's support has helped DREAM! train new teaching artists and leadership members in restorative practices and peer mediation. That training will enable our staff to engage and serve students in up to 20 schools this school year.
”2021
$10,000
The Bronx
Dare to Revitalize Education thru Arts & Meditation/DREAM!’s mission is to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline by helping students and educators acquire the confidence and practical skills they need to resolve conflicts creatively and productively, increasing students' engagement with learning and supporting academic success.
In 2009, Aisha Norris co-founded DREAM! to offer media arts programming to establish community-based organizations and high schools in the Bronx and Harlem, two boroughs that are dear to her. Aisha was born and raised in the South Bronx and spent most of her adult years working in Harlem. She developed her experience in the field first as a student and later by becoming program manager of Harlem Children’s Zone’s TRUCE, a media literacy program. With 12 years of experience in the facilitation and management of arts programming, Aisha’s goal was to offer a TRUCE-like experience to as many Bronx and Harlem communities as possible. Aisha’s belief is that arts-based training enhances young people’s ability and desire to think outside of the box, find their voice, become critical thinkers, and discover talents that can ultimately lead to amazing career opportunities, as it has done for her!