Making the Case for Social Justice
In the eighth article of the series Case-making and Systems Change in Arts and Cultural Education, developed in collaboration with Creative Generation, we explore how the principles of social justice...
Collective Impact and Coalition Building: A Dynamic Relationship
In this sixth article in the series Case-making and Systems Change in Arts and Cultural Education, we explore elements that are foundational to changemaking coalitions. The article describes some shared...
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...
Sustainability in Arts Education
Regardless of your role in the arts education ecosystem, sustainability is the proverbial grand prize. What do we want? Imagine the day… The arts are universally endorsed in public education...
Putting a Face on Lobbying for Arts Education
For some, lobbyist or lobbying are terms associated with shady dealings or hardball tactics. Not so fast. The lobbyists I have worked with in the arts education arena are highly principled, skilled...
Communications for Cause
Strategic communications is at the heart of advocacy success —the art of communicating effectively with targeted audiences in order to move decision makers through the use of mainstream, social, new...
Coalition Jenga
Humans are social creatures. Biology, psychology, and sociology tell us so. It would then follow that we need others to help us be our best selves and do our best...
