A listing of useful resource links, as mentioned in blog posts.
Recruiting Students: Back to Basics
For more resources on student recruitment, see Yamaha Educators Suite Post-Pandemic Planning Guide and Music Achievement Council’s Practical Guide to Recruitment and Retention
Why We Advocate: It’s Personal
- Build relationships with decisionmakers.
- Leverage good news stories for greater impact, locally and on social media.
- Adopt a district resolution affirming the importance of the arts.
- National Association for Music Merchants (NAMM)
- National Association for Music Education (NAfME)
- National Association for Art Education (NAEA)
- Educational Theatre Association (EdTA)
- National Dance Education Organization (NDEO)
- Americans for the Arts (AFTA)
Gorman Effect: Seize the Moment
- Urban Word
- WriteGirl
- Metro Arts Nashville
- Tennessee Arts Commission
- Southern Word
- Creative Youth Development National Partnership
- Creative Generation
- National Guild for Community Arts Education
- Young Audiences: Arts for Learning
- Save the Music Foundation
Be It Resolved: Sustaining Arts Ed in 2021
- Women for Tennessee’s Future or WTF
- Nonprofit Quarterly’s local business survival guide in a pandemic
A Little Help From My Friends: Focused Arts Ed Advocacy
Come About! Arts Ed Advocacy in Urgent Times
- National Association for Music Education (prof learning, policy, advocacy, Title IV-A toolkit)
- NAMM Foundation (Best Communities for Music Education, SupportMusic Coalition)
- Americans for the Arts (policy and advocacy, arts education tools)
- Arts Education Partnership (ArtsEdSearch, ArtScan)
- State Education Agency of Directors of Arts Education (SEADAE) (Arts Education Data Project)
Arts Ed During the Pandemic: Is This Grief I Am Feeling?
Take the Stairs: Fostering A Habit of Creativity
- The Studio Thinking Project from Harvard Project Zero
- inquiry-based learning (think Socrates)
- Visual Thinking Strategies, (facilitated discussion of art)
- project-based learning (solving real world problems through action research, collaboration and discovery)
- Shankar Vedantam’s Hidden Brain podcast on Creatures of Habit
- Psych Learning Curve article on Creative Teaching and Teaching Creatively
Sustainability in Arts Education Part 2: The Keystone
- Nature.com keystone species.
- Arts Education Field Guide, Declaration of Equity in Music for City Students: Descriptions of arts and music ed ecosystems.
- LA County Arts Ed Collective
Sustainability in Arts Education
- Ingenuity, Inc. in Chicago is tracking increases in arts education access, equity, and quality in Chicago Public Schools with their artlook® Map.
- MINDPOP in Austin, Texas supports a creative learning environment for general classroom teachers, integrates meaningful community arts partnerships with schools, and engages all levels of the system, including teachers, campus leaders, district administrators, artists and communities.
- Arizona Department of Education’s Arts Education Office is staffed by an interdisciplinary team of content specialists, who work closely with communities by collaborating with educators, schools, community members, and policymakers to ensure every child receives a well-rounded education.
- The Teaching Artist Certificate Program, offered by Teachers College at Columbia University and Young Audiences, acknowledges the important role of teaching artists in the schools.
- Governor Murphy and Arts Ed NJ recently announced that New Jersey is the first state to provide universal access to arts education for nearly 1.1 million students.
- NAMM, along with the National Association for Music Education, and a host of partners, advocated to secure a new funding stream for music and the arts with the Student Support and Academic Enrichment Grant program (Title IV, Part A).
- Funders, such as the CMA Foundation, Save the Music Foundation, and Grammy Music Education Coalition, encourage cross-sector engagement and community partnerships.
- Collective Impact Grants from the National Endowment for the Arts embrace systemic, multi-dimensional, cross-sector approaches to increase student access to the arts.
- The National PTA has a position statement and state-supported programs, affirming the importance of the arts in education.
Looking at Arts Ed from Inside Out
Title IVA Funding for Arts Education
- Music & Arts trained educational representatives
- Music & Arts Adopt-A-Classroom
- NAfME toolkit and FAQs on Title IVA
- Infographic from the Title IV-A Coalition
- VH1 Save the Music Foundation’s graphic overview and guide to Title IVA
- Arts Education Partnership: ESSA and the Arts, ESSA: Mapping Opportunities for the Arts
- NAfME ESSA implementation toolkit: Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) Implementation Toolkit
- State Education Directors of Arts Education(SEADAE) members
- NAfME Advocacy Leadership Forcerepresentatives
- Pennsylvania Music Educators Association toolkit for advocates
- Arizona Department of Education resource page dedicated to Title IVA
Propel Arts Ed Advocacy with Data
- State Education Agency Directors of Arts Education (SEADAE)
- Arts Ed Data Project
- Tennessee Arts Education Data Project
- Statewide Data Infrastructure Project for Arts Education
- Create/CA | California Arts Education Data Project
Coalition Jenga
- NAMM Foundation home page
- NAMM Foundation’s Coalition on Coalitions
- California Alliance for Arts Education
- California Alliance for Arts Education’s Local Advocacy Coalitions Network
Cultivating Influentials
- ArtsEdSearch. A curated research hub from Arts Education Partnership.
- NAMM Foundation Research. Research briefs curated and funded by the NAMM Foundation.
Communications for Cause
- Smart Chart from Spitfire Strategies is a go-to resource for strategic communications. Spitfire is a Washington, D.C. strategic communications firm dedicated to helping clients tackle the most critical social and environmental issues of our time.
Inclusion Rider Take 2
- State ESSA Plans by Bellwether Education Partners
- ESSA Resources from Arts Education Partnership
Be the Good News
- The Goodman Center helps nonprofits tell better stories– “Where Do-Gooders Learn to Do Better.” Their online and in-person workshops and webinars cover topics such as storytelling, giving presentations, delivering a pitch, and running meetings.
Putting a Face on Lobbying for Arts Education
The Funding Challenge
- The Grantsmanship Center’s map of grant resources
- GoFundMe
- DonorsChoose.org
Arts & School Culture: More Than Friday Night Lights
- Harvard University Graduate School of Education’s Usable Knowledge forum
Arts Ed & Strategic Planning: Surf’s Up
- California Alliance for Arts Education The Insider’s Guide to Arts Education Planning
- Facilitation methods from the Institute of Cultural Affairs
Arts Education Partnerships: Greater Than the Sum
- Tennessee Performing Arts Center (TPAC) program Disney Musicals in the Schools,
- The arts in Chula Vista Elementary School District
