Dream Love School
Since 2021Our first project, still running every week. Thirty minute online English lessons for pediatric cancer patients, planned by the mentor who teaches them.
Youth-Led Education & Mentorship
Making quality English education easier to reach.
GLOW creates accessible learning opportunities for children and teens facing educational barriers. From weekly mentorship to digital learning resources, our goal is to build support that can reach more learners, in more communities, over time.
Timeline
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2021
English Playground launches
A weekly after-school English program opens with Dream Love School, reaching 18 learners in its first year.
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2022
The weekly roster grows
Returning learners bring others, and the program settles into a steady weekly rhythm.
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2023
More than 40 learners a year
The mentor team is entirely Korea-based at this point.
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2024
Mentors join from overseas
Volunteers outside Korea begin teaching, widening the hours the program can cover.
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2025
More than 70 learners a year
Demand grows sharply and the weekly sessions run at full capacity.
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2026
GLOW launches
The program becomes GLOW, reaching more learners, and a project begins to build an online teaching platform.
Programs
Interactive Audio Platform
In developmentSoftware we are building now: an audio and video course platform with interactive practice, so learning English feels less like homework and more like listening.
Mentor and Day Leader Program
OpenWhere our mentors are trained and supported. Day Leaders run a weekday team, track feedback, and propose the projects GLOW takes on next.
Support that shows up every week
GLOW began in 2021 with English Playground, a weekly after-school program run with Dream Love School for children receiving long-term hospital care. Since then 52 mentors have taught more than 300+ learners.
Consistency is the point. A thirty minute lesson matters less on its own than the fact that it arrives every week, from someone who already knows the learner. We are extending that model to new partners, and building digital resources so the same support can reach learners we cannot meet in person.
- Weekly English lessons, planned around each learner.
- Mentors trained and supported through the full term.
- Digital learning resources in development, to reach further.
Become a mentor
Mentors teach one lesson a week for a ten week cohort. We select mentors through an application review followed by an interview.
- Current cohort
- Fall Cohort 2026
- Starts
- Monday, September 7
- Length
- 10 weeks
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Format
- Online
- Next intake
- March 2027
Lesson slides
For current mentors. Opens the teaching deck in a new tab.
Sign-ups closed Fall Cohort 2026 is full and starts this week. Applications below are for the March 2027 cohort.
Bring GLOW to your learners
We partner with hospital programs, schools, and community organizations whose learners need English support. Tell us who you serve and what you need, and we will tell you what we can take on.