VisionDreamBox Learning envisions a future where every student enjoys an individually-tailored, world class learning experience.
A great online educational experience is now possible for every child
Every day, great teachers are making a difference, but not everyone has access to a great education. With the global reach of the web and the power of software, DreamBox Learning delivers the effectiveness of great teachers to benefit any student, anytime, anywhere. We are successful educators, entrepreneurs, technologists, and creative designers. We're also parents with a passion for helping our children — and all children — succeed through effective web-based learning.
We have five core beliefs that guide our vision:
- Children learn best when they are engaged and having fun
- Children learn best when instruction is individualized to their learning needs
- The teaching strategies of effective teachers can be captured in software
- The personalization used in ecommerce should be applied to improve online education
- Kids' interest in computer games should be leveraged to enhance learning
Edu-tainment vs. serious education
While parents have unlimited choices for engaging their child, most "learning activities" are more activity than learning. We can do better. An educational game should engage a child's attention first, so it can also challenge and help them grow. But it should go far beyond the typical edu-tainment that many kids fill up on. We believe a quality learning product must be steeped in a solid curriculum and individualized instruction to inspire in-depth learning.
Highly differentiated instruction, powered by web-based software
The most effective teachers first look for clues to a child's learning patterns, and then offer the individually-appropriate level of instruction to guide a student forward. They understand that there are many "right" ways to learn a concept or skill, and give each child time to explore and gain confidence. They adapt how they explain a key idea, provide hints, and choose the problems they ask a child to solve based on what they know about that particular child.
At DreamBox, we have developed a family-friendly culture of learning, listening, and surpassing expectations — the best possible environment for creating the next big innovation in educational products, and for providing outstanding customer service.
DreamBox Learning brings these winning teacher strategies right into your home. Our expert educators have created a deep, standards-based math curriculum with hundreds of interactive lessons. Our designers have wrapped those lessons in fun game-based adventures. And, most importantly, we don't just check the number of right answers at the end of a lesson to determine whether to promote a child to the next lesson as other "learning games" do. Instead, our powerful GuideRight™ technology constantly adapts and fine-tunes each lesson to best meet a child's unique needs and learning style, significantly increasing each child's success rate!
Why math?
We chose mathematics as our first product to meet the urgent need to build early math literacy skills for our children. We started with the early years because all math builds on previously learned concepts, and we want to offer math from the ground up. In the coming years, look for us to deliver products that help kindergarten through twelfth grade students develop the math and logical thinking skills that are essential for success in school and life.
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