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...
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...
Looking at Arts Ed from Inside Out
There comes a time for honest reflection in the life of every arts in education program. Whether your organization or project is just finding its footing or is well-established, we...
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...
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...
