Todaydream
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Description

Todaydream helps students discover career pathways, build confidence, and expand what is possible for their future. Todaydream connects students with diverse, accomplished professionals whose authentic stories and meaningful conversations transform careers from abstract ideas into real, attainable possibilities. Our DreAmbassadors® represent a wide range of industries, backgrounds, and lived experiences. Through engaging storytelling, guided discussion, and interactive activities, students explore authentic career journeys, learn how professionals navigated challenges and opportunities, and discover the many pathways available after high school. Todaydream's career-connected learning experiences support schools' goals for college and career readiness, postsecondary planning, social-emotional learning, workforce readiness, and student engagement. Sessions encourage students to reflect on their strengths, interests, and aspirations while developing greater confidence in their ability to achieve their goals. Todaydream offers customizable classroom workshops, assemblies, career panels, and virtual experiences for middle and high schools. Schools can engage Todaydream for a single assembly or a sustained series across a semester or school year. Our research-informed programming has demonstrated a statistically significant 22% increase in students' beliefs about social mobility, measured using Stanford’s Measuring Mobility Toolkit, helping young people recognize that success is attainable regardless of where they begin. Todaydream partners with Chicago Public Schools and was founded by a Northwestern University law professor, Harvard economics PhD, and Chicago Public Schools alumnus. When students can see new possibilities, they begin to imagine new futures. By expanding students' vision of what is possible, Todaydream helps connect today's learning with tomorrow's opportunities.

Contact Info
Name: Victoria Wijerathnayapa


Phone: (312) 651-6624

Location/Address:
1 East Erie St Suite 525-4233
Chicago, IL 60611
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Regions
  • Capital District
  • Central New York
  • Finger Lakes
  • Mid-Hudson
  • Mohawk Valley
  • New York City
  • North Country
  • Southern Tier
  • Western New York
  • Formats
  • Assembly
  • Classroom Presentation (Small Groups)
  • Virtual
  • Grade Levels
  • 6-8
  • 9-12
  • Categories
  • Character Education
  • College Planning
  • Cultural Responsiveness
  • Diversity, Equity, Inclusion
  • Leadership Building
  • Social Emotional Learning