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Topic: Student Voice In The Middle
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My name is Bill Ivey, and I am the Middle School Dean at Stoneleigh-Burnham School in Greenfield, MA. Among other things I do at SBS, I work with an advisory group, I teach a Humanities 7 course based on a democratic classroom model, I co-advise our student government group "MOCA," and I coordinate and volunteer in our Commnunity Service Program.
 
I believe very strongly that all communities work best when all voices are heard and when all members believe and trust in their own power, individually and collectively. I believe that it is doubly important to include student voices in middle schools, both for the immediate benefit to the school and for the longer-term benefit to society. I look forward to sharing ideas, strategies, questions, frustrations, successes and more as we here form a community and work to incorporate our students' voices into our schools.
 
Take care,
Bill Ivey
Stoneleigh-Burnham School
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Bill Ivey  35
04-15-2008 09:49 PM ET (US)
We wanted to promote awareness of LGBT issues in our middle school, and so invited the GSA from our upper school to meet with all the kids for the first in a series of two workshops. The high school students designed and led the workshop. Topics:
1. introductions, explanation of purpose of meeting and what GSA is, invitation to stop by GSA meetings
2. small group exercise in vocabulary - matching terminology to definitions (with GSA members distributed one per group to aid with questions)
3. recounting first experiences (positive or negative) with openly LGBT people and taking questions as they came up.

They did a fantastic job, especially thinking on their feet to answer spontaneous questions. I think only one of the adults present spoke only once, and that right at the end of the session. Next week, they will focus on media portrayals of LGBT people, and how to be an effective ally. I'm looking forward to it!
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