Mission Statement

THE POWER OF CONFETTI

The Confetti Movement is about celebrating different ways of learning.

We are here to celebrate all the people challenged by learning differently, from teachers and parents, activists and lawmakers, and most important YOU.

Our movement seeks to embrace and support the ways you—or our children, students, communities, and constituents—may think and learn differently; and in the process bring hope, belonging, and equity to our world of Confetti.

Our film CONFETTI is about dyslexia, but the Confetti Movement is for anyone with “impaired” learning. Dyslexic people think differently by nature. This so-called “disability” has been a catalyzing force for so many talented people, such as Pablo Picasso, Albert Einstein, Eleanor Roosevelt, Steve Jobs, and Richard Branson. By choice and by circumstance, they have created their own codes, and society greatly benefited from their creative and out-of-the-box thinking. A staggering 5 to 15 percent of Americans—14.5 to 43.5 million children and adults— have dyslexia, a condition that makes it difficult to read and write using the codes that the mainstream has adopted; yet every one of them is a talented person in their own special way.

Some believe that the definition for Creativity is “deviation from the norm and known”; we would think that anyone who is able to think differently is a gift to us all.

We want to recognize the inherent creativity in people with dyslexia, and all other learning “disabilities”. We want our film to galvanize a national conversation about the vital need for a creative environment and curriculum in schools across the US, and to encourage understanding and empathy. We believe our film CONFETTI can move people to deeper understanding and action, and we have developed a toolkit, readily available to all families and educators, to help break the stigma behind learning challenges.

Lois Alter Mark from the Alliance of Women Film Journalists said: “Every once in a while you see a movie that you just know is going to change someone’s life… Confetti is that kind of movie.”

Join our Confetti movement toward making sure all of us, our children, our students, and ourselves, have the chance to celebrate and maximize our talent and to do so with dignity and respect.