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Carol: The
Student Voices campaign

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was created by the California
Alliance for Arts Education

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to speak to the need for
arts for all students in

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every classroom every day.

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And it was way, a means of
giving students a voice

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to say, 'This is why
we need the arts.'

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Carol: Now, what will be the
focus of the cameras

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during the ceramics class?

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Michael: Carol Hovey
is the drama director

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at Livermore High School.

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She's checking in today with
a group students who are

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working on a two-minute
video for the

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Student Voices Campaign.

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Vincent: Our video for the
Student Voices Campaign

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is about how there's so
many different art types,

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and so many different ways
people can express

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their art through
sculpting, photography,

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filming, that all of
them should be included

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for everybody to feel like
they have a voice in this.

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James: Most of the
time we've been working on,

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um, storyboarding it or just
brainstorming just on

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big sheets of paper.

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And just jotting down ideas
and figuring out a story and

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what would be best for it.

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Harleigh: If all of the
quotes together are more

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than two minutes, then you
guys may have to look back

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to find shorter quotes.

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Michael: The video is
a true collaboration,

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with drama students writing
the script and recording

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the voiceovers...
and film students

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like Harleigh turning
it into a reality.

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Harleigh: They'll show us a
little picture of what they

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want us to do and
we're like okay,

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we know exactly how
to make this happen.

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We'll get, like,
some close up shots.

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We're filming what their
vision is and then

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we go back and edit.

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Um, we show
them our footage.

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They're basically
our bosses. (laughs)

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Carol: They learn
how to collaborate,

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they learn how
to communicate,

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they learn how to
express creativity,

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they learn critical
thinking skills,

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they learn problem solving.

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So it's an invaluable
process.

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Nat full: What if I said you
could change the world

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by making a video?

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And that video is
about your voice.

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Michael: The Student Voices
Campaign launched in 2014

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as a creative way to give
students a voice

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in school budget
discussions.

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Students from schools across
California submit about 200

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videos a year....
all of which are judged

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by professionals, with
the winners announced

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in the spring.

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Every video that's
created by students

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is also submitted to
their school board.

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Caitlin: We've had some
wonderful issues

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raised by students at the
Student Voices Campaign.

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Um, one of our
outstanding videos was,

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um, a video submitted by San
Jose Unified School District

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students about trans and
non-binary students

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at the school.

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Nat full up from trans
video: Gender neutral

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restrooms should be readily
available in our schools.

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Let's help out our trans
and non-binary friends.

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Caitlin: And the outcome
of that video was that the

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school board put in two
new restrooms for trans and

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non-binary students to use
during their school day.

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Michael: Livermore
High School students

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have participated in the
video campaign

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since the beginning...
advocating to their

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school board to keep arts
classes at their school.

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Harleigh: Art is pretty much
the first classes they cut

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from any budget of schools.

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So, if they see how
important it is to students

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and how it really gets
our creative minds going,

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I think it's
very important for, like,

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the community and the
school to understand that.

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Vincent: I believe that our
voices should be heard

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as students
because they are, uh,

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oftentimes not heard as
well as adults or teachers

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because they think
that we are too young,

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or, um, naïve to understand
what we should be.

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Michael: Carol Hovey says
she's mindful to act only as

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a guide and observer during
the filmmaking process...

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ensuring that the
video really does reflect

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the student viewpoint.

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Carol: I really
try not to butt in.

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I really try just to let
them to find their voice.

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Because, as I remind
myself, it's not my voice.

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I talk enough.

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They need to
find their voice.

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Nat full: I feel like their
little sibling and they

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always have my back.

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Plus we share so many
common interests it's never

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boring to go to rehearsal.

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Caitlin: The Student Voices
Campaign also introduces

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students to advocacy, some
of which have never heard

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of this in their daily life,
or understand that that

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actually can
make a difference.

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Nat full: Arts have
some power.

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Do we want to go out
and ask other people

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what they think?

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Michael: Although the
Livermore High student

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video didn't win top
honors, it was a finalist.

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Perhaps more importantly, it
conveyed a powerful message

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to the Livermore school
board, and community

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about how important
art classes are

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to these young people.

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Vincent: Art is not
just for the art people.

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It can also be for
sports people to

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come in and express
themselves that way.

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It gives everybody an
outlet to express

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themselves freely.

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James: Arts
matter to people,

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and arts have a
lot of power.

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They can empower people.

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They can changes lives.

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Arts can do a lot of
things for people.