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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  36
04-25-2008 09:31 AM ET (US)
Some times the absence of student voice can also make a statement. Like many other schools, we are observing the National Day of Silence today (www.dayofsilence.org). Half our middle school is participating, and with one exception it's the more vocal half. I think the effect in classes will be profound, and make a greater statement about the effect of silencing voices of LGBT people than any presentation/workshop/etc. could ever accomplish.

I'm also doing a "morning reading" today with half the words removed, to represent the effect of removing half the voices from our school. We'll see how that goes! :-)
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