Because Shift Happens: Setting New Goals
There comes a time for honest reflection in the life of every arts educator and arts education program. Educators and community partners spend every waking moment pursuing the delivery of...
Recruiting Students: Back to Basics
We have all spent more time in our kitchens in the past year, which can be a good thing or too much of a good thing. I’ve come to appreciate...
Why We Advocate: It’s Personal
We advocate every day to advance issues we care about. What makes it personal is that it builds on our own experiences, beliefs and biases. Advocacy is defined as the...
Be It Resolved. Sustaining ArtsEd in 2021
Who’s ready for 2021? I’m so ready that I’m starting early on my New Year’s Resolutions. I resolve to stop doom-scrolling, be kind, turn outrage into action, laugh more, and...
A Little Help From My Friends: Focused Arts Ed Advocacy
There’s nothing like a crisis to focus the mind. It becomes clear (as much as anything is clear these days) that focused arts ed advocacy is an important tool to...
Come About! Arts Ed Advocacy in Urgent Times
Is urgent advocacy action needed for arts education at the local level? Come about! is a command used in sailing when you want to tack (change direction) when the wind...
Arts Ed During the Pandemic: Is This Grief I Am Feeling?
I sat with my anger long enough until she told me her real name was grief. ~Source: The Minds Journal Arts educators typically have a longer and more pronounced bond...
Forecasting Arts Education: Down the Rabbit Hole
We are all Alice. We’ve tumbled down the rabbit hole into a land that is utterly unfamiliar. And like Alice, we are bewildered. As we navigate the unimaginable, we will...
Forest And The Trees: Perspectives in Arts Ed Advocacy
What is your point of view in arts education advocacy? Are you the arts educator, working everyday to advance students’ knowledge and experience in the arts? Or the advocate working...
Take the Stairs: Fostering A Habit of Creativity
Take the Stairs: Fostering a Habit of Creativity We usher in a new decade with best of/worst of stories, predictive trends, and endless advice on how to make and live...
