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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.