Dr. Preble has spent the past ten years working with schools across the country to empower students, build respect and improve school climate. In 2002, Dr. Preble founded Main Street Academix to bring together more educators and students in this exciting work. We have helped over 250 schools build diverse student leadership teams, collect exciting and sometimes provocative school climate data from students, teachers, administrators and parents and we have seen them use these data to better understand the challenges, strengths and needs of their students and schools. We have watched schools that have improved their climate see dramatic increases in student academic performance. We have seen elementary students grow into middle and high school students who respect one another and who appreciate diversity. We have seen students learn to stand up to bullies, and to respectfully and effectively challenge ineffective school policies and practices. We have seen entire schools begin to recognize that intolerance and injustice have no place in a Respectful School. We are learning how to connect our partner schools through a Respectful Schools Alliance using web-based video-conferencing and webinar technology. Our student leaders are making presentations at state-level, regional and national conferences about their work and what it means to them and their schools. We can hardly wait to see what happens in the next 10 years.

Main Street Academix makes the following commitments to clients:

• To help caring, committed, student and adult leaders build respectful schools by standing up for civility, equity, and the dignity of every person.

• To help respectful schools recognize and bring out the best in every teacher
  and student.

• To help schools utilize data and active leadership roles for students and
  teachers to be more respectful and successful.