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...
Sustainability in Arts Ed Part 2: The Keystone
In an earlier post, I describe sustainability in arts education as the result of interactions among like-minded stakeholders within a complex landscape. This post investigates the keystone of sustainability in...
Propel Arts Ed Advocacy with Data
Data is a powerful tool for arts ed advocates. Quantifiable data helps to answer the question of need. Decision makers want proof that policy is warranted and dollars are needed.*...
Arts Ed & Strategic Planning: Surf’s Up
My surfer sons tell me that paddling out and waiting for the perfect wave is part of the “surf’s up” gestalt, meaning conditions are right, right now. As a non-surfer...
The Funding Challenge
Effective arts education programs across the country have garnered a mix of public and private funds to enable their success. Very few (if any) school districts can do it on...
Getting Started
Beginnings are hard. In advocacy work (as in life), sometimes it’s difficult to know where to start. Looking at Piet Mondrian’s Broadway Boogie Woogie, painted after Mondrian moved to New...
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