Finding Knowledge and Inspiration in Every Turn
Sisters With A Dream (SWD) wants its members to learn and be inspired with the activities we provide each week. Whether it be a cooking lesson, arts and crafts, creating invention prototypes, reading our book club selection, or a guest speaker - our members will be able to make a connection to the world around them and discover their passions and where they see themselves in the near future. SWD always does a weekly social emotional check in with coordinators and members. Our coordinators believe that social emotional learning will help our members learn about themselves as well as navigate their world effectively. SWD coordinators believe that field trips will help create memorable lessons and focused learning experiences for our members – exposing them to other cultures as well as learning their own history. Museums, plays and other live performances, visits to historical sites and viewing various workplaces have been implemented in the past. Click link to view History of SWD slideshow.
Our Annual Tea Party
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Sisters With A Dream begins and ends each year with a tea party as part of our emphasis on etiquette.
Special Guests
A visit with SWD and Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson, first Black MIT graduate with a degree in Physics, founder of MIT’s Black Student Union, and inventor of “call waiting”.
Eastern Bank manager giving a workshop on the economics of entrepreneurship.
Boston's Channel 5 TV reporter,
Michelle Fisher, who, with her cameraman, presented to our girls.
Field Trips
Overnight stay at the
Museum of Science
Museum of Fine Arts Field Trip
Sisters made their own quilt pieces
as a follow-up activity after viewing
quilt artist Bisa Butler’s Exhibit.
Field Trip to Moderna
Featured in the photo is Barbara Salami, Vice President of Digital for Commercial Operations at Moderna and President of the Moderna Employees of Color Association.
Louisa May Alcott’s Home
Our SWD girls went on a field
trip to the home of this activist/author/transcendentalist
as a follow up from viewing the movie, “Little Women”.
STEAM Activities
SWD learning how to code using MIT's program SCRATCH.
Investigating wind power as a follow-up activity to the lesson "Alternative Wind Energy".
MIT Invention
Convention Activity
Sisters brainstormed ideas and made prototypes of products they would like to sell as an entrepreneur.
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African theme paper quilting project as a follow-up activity to the Museum of Fine Arts quilt exhibit.
Special Events
SWD Poetry Contest with two of the judges (Frank Barnes and Vaughn Goodwin, also mentors for Qualls Academy) and a participant.
End-of-Year
SWD medallions given to each member.
SWD were special guests for the inauguration of the Liberation Libraries in Cambridge, MA, sponsored by My Brother's Keeper (MBK).
End of year dinner at a favorite local restaurant.
