William Preble

Bill is a Professor of Education at New England College in Henniker, NH and the founder of Main Street Academix, an educational research and consulting firm he created in 2001. Bill teaches courses in Educational Psychology, Social Studies Education, Prejudice and Discrimination, and Action Research.

Bill has worked on the issues of youth leadership, social justice and civic engagement for many years.  As a young middle school teacher, he led a group of his students on one of the first US-Soviet Youth Exchange programs called Project S.A.M.E., created in memory of his student, Samantha Smith, and which resulted in a series of US-Soviet Youth Exchanges. Bill developed the Safe Measures Student-Led, Collaborative Action Research Process that provides schools with data on school climate while he was working on school violence prevention projects with the Maine Office of the Attorney General and US Department of Justice.

Bill is a former elementary school principal. He consults with schools across the country on school improvement, student leadership, respectful teaching, anti-bullying, and dropout prevention.

He is the co-author of The Respectful School: How Educators and Students Can Conquer Hate and Harassment, with Stephen Wessler (ASCD, 2003) and recently published two articles on his work to reduce bullying and improve school climate, safety, respect, and learning; School Climate Through Students’ Eyes in Educational Leadership, (Jan., 2009) and The Relationship Between Levels of Perceived Respect and Bullying in 5th through 12 graders, with Susan Langdon, in Adolescence (Fall, 2008).

Bill and his wife Holly have two teenage children and he enjoys playing the drums wherever and whenever he can.