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Welcome to the Legacy Project website. Here are some of the books and free online activities, lesson ideas, guides, tips, essay contests, and other resources we offer for teachers.

Check out the Begin and End With a Dream activity set with meaningful ideas for beginning and ending the school year.

Motivate students to think about the lifetime of possibilities ahead of them while building text and visual literacy skills and cross-curricular connections with LifeDreams activities.

Find out about the award-winning Dream book to encourage students to reach for their dreams and goals – many schools use the book as a year-long theme. For a DVD video author reading, check out A Reading of Dream DVD.

For use with the Dream book, there's the Dream CD and posters.

Use the How To Teach Literacy Like a Dream DVD video workshop to get cross-curricular, classroom-tested lesson ideas for literacy and goal-setting.

Encourage students to enter the annual Listen to a Life Essay Contest to win a Lenovo ThinkCentre computer for themselves AND $25,000 of Orchard Software for your school – a meaningful writing exercise that also builds important connections with a grandparent, grandfriend, or mentor.

Find out how you can create, record, and share a
Life Statement. We have a special version of the Life Statement for students – a writing exercise that helps them define who they are and their life goals.

Check out the complete Grandparents Day Planning & Activity Guide for an intergenerational event at any time of the year.

Celebrate the special bonds across generations with the bestseller A Little Something – perfect for a Mother's Day or Grandparents Day event. We have a 65% discount available for schools.

Get tips and ideas for mentoring.

Help students deal with bullying and conflict using our Safe Schools activity set.

See all our free online activities.

See all our free online guides and tips.

Check out the new Our World program.

Find out about Dream Discovery school visits from bestselling author and educator Susan V. Bosak, and the Dream Chain.

Find out about teacher professional development workshops.

Get involved in Dreaming New Ways of Learning.

Become a member of the Legacy Project.

Subscribe to our free quarterly e-mail newsletter to find out when new free resources are posted, other contests start, and more.

Win a Dream Package when you tell a friend!

Download a 4-page catalog.

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