Currently, Adream serves students from grades 1-9 in public schools across China. In order to provide and maintain quality education in marginalized areas and among the underprivileged sectors of the populace, we have developed the Adream Center network, which consists of the following: “Adream Centers” (a network of multimedia classrooms), “Adream Courses” (a competency-based education curriculum focused on innovative learning and student growth), “Adream Guide” (an instruction method R&D and teacher training program), “Adream Bank” (an incentives program for teachers), and “Adream Box”(a social networking services platform for teachers and beneficiary schools).
Adream Center
Back in 2008, our founder Shirley observed the problem of uneven distribution of educational resources during her field trip to Sichuan. Then we started to solve this problem by building a library for a rural school in 2008. We named it Adream Center. (It took us 5 months to build it). We hoped books in the library could help the local children to learn about the bigger world then they might find their dreams with our help.
Nowadays, we have a very mature supply-chain and we can build an Adream Center in 28days, with competitive price. In the latest version, we also equip the classroom with new technologies, such as 3D printing and VR.
We have built 5858 Adream centers until the end of 2023 and benefited more than 6.8 million students and teachers.
Adream Curriculum
After the first Adream Center was built, we soon realized that the hardware is not the key problem. Although we have provided quality equipment, the teahcers and principals did not allow students to use it for fear that they would damage the books and continue to emphasize the importance of exams and scores. The old exam-focused mindset is still there. This was obviously contrary to our purpose. We believe education must be able to enlighten students, and to engage in whole-person development.
Hence, we worked with professors from prestigious universities to develop courses to make the best use of space. Until now, we have developed 38 Adream courses, in the area of empowering girls, art, career development, etc.
Project Dream·Love-at-Border
Adream leverages its cross-sectoral collaboration advantages to target counties with weak educational foundations in border areas. With a three-year cycle, Adream implements the model of “1 (a national brand enterprise) + 1 (a leading urban school) + 5 (a Love-at-Border School + 3-5 surrounding Dream Center radiated schools) + X (Dream Education + customized high-quality educational products/services)” to assist project counties in improving the educational ecosystem and support the high-quality and balanced development of basic education in border areas. The “Love-at-Border” project assists border schools to offer Dream Curriculum, continuously introducing experience in the field of competency-based education, especially leveraging the resource advantages of music, physical and art education and comprehensive practical activity curriculum. It also organizes Dream Salons (local cross-school teaching and research communities) to conduct online and ofine teaching and research activities. The Adream Online School is established, equipped with recording and live broadcasting devices, to connect with remote training from leading urban schools and other high-quality educational resource providers, introducing high-quality educational resources to border counties and forming a three-dimensional assistance ‘Internet + Education Community’ to support the comprehensive development of children in border areas.
Project Dream·One County One Dream
The “Project Dream·One County One Dream” initiative allocates 1 million yuan to each county, focusing on the following main activities: conducting teacher training for specialized curricula in moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic and labouring education; providing the necessary courseware, hardware, software and learning resources for teachers; organizing teaching and research exchange sessions; and organizing cross-school class demonstration, observation and evaluation activities. In 2023, Adream collaborated with three caring enterprises to support the “Project Dream·One County One Dream” initiative, with a total donation of 3 million yuan. Of this, Proya donated 1 million yuan to provide Sports Dream Courses for 14 schools in Qiemo County, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, sponsor a sports game, build a sports feld, and donate sports equipment; Shenzhen Zhima Health Investment Co., Ltd. donated 1 million yuan to provide the “One County One Dream – Frisbee Special Sports Dream Courses” for 20 schools in Fengxin County, Jiangxi Province; and First Seafront Fund donated 1 million yuan to provide various sports training for all teachers and students in Deqin County, Yunnan Province, sponsor sports meets, basketball games for county-wide primary and secondary schools, etc. Currently, the project is progressing and being implemented orderly
Project Dream·Adream Normal Class
“Project Dream – Adream Normal Class” collaborates with normal schools in the central and western regions of China, with a focus on “Dream Education”. This initiative connects outstanding postemployment “dream teachers” with exceptional pre-service normal school students to establish a mentorship model. The model ofers normal school students an opportunity to learn on-site before their employment, gaining hands-on experience in rural classrooms. This integration facilitates a seamless transition from being a student to becoming a teacher, fostering a group of “dream teachers” who are both grounded in reality and inspired by aspiration.