Dream Squad Curriculum™
The Dream Squad™ Curriculum is a literacy, leadership, social-emotional learning, and character development program designed to help students build confidence, resilience, and life skills for success both inside and outside the classroom.
Built around the book Lil Ed and the Secret Backpack™, the curriculum helps students discover the qualities they carry inside their own backpack every day and teaches them how to use those qualities to overcome challenges, reach goals, and make a positive impact in their communities.
Students Learn
⭐ Leadership
⭐ Confidence
⭐ Respect
⭐ Perseverance
⭐ Teamwork
⭐ Responsibility
⭐ Education
⭐ Goal Setting
⭐ Healthy Living
⭐ Character Development
⭐ Social-Emotional Learning
9 Learning Units
🎒 What’s In Your Backpack?™
❤️ Heart Over Height™
📚 Education Is Power™
🌎 The Dream Squad™
🤝 Respect & Inclusion™
🚀 Walking Into The Future™
⭐ The Lil Ed Moment™
💡 Purpose & Making A Difference™
🥗 Nutrition, Health & Training™
Designed For
• Schools
• After-School Programs
• Community Organizations
• Youth Sports Programs
• Mentoring Programs
• Youth Leadership Programs
Our Goal
To help students become confident readers, strong leaders, critical thinkers, and positive contributors to their communities.
Through literacy, leadership, social-emotional learning, and character development, students learn that success is not determined by where they come from—it is determined by what they carry inside their backpack every day.
Dream Squad™ Motto
Heart Over Height™
Change Through Education™
The World Is Watching™
Because success begins with what you carry inside your backpack.