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...
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...
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...
Title IVA Funding for Arts Education
This is what arts ed advocates have been waiting for. A funding stream from the Federal government that can be used for music and the arts. One of the best...
Arts Education Partnerships: Greater Than the Sum
The educational experience of students and teachers is enriched by arts partnerships between schools and practicing artists. Arts partnerships have evolved since I was a dance teaching artist in rural...
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...
Arts & School Culture: More Than Friday Night Lights
We hear that organizational culture and climate can transform the workplace, in both positive or negative ways. Though most of us in the education arena would be hard pressed to...
Inclusion Rider Take 2
Thanks to Frances McDormand’s Oscar acceptance speech, Inclusion Rider is a new shorthand code for diversity and inclusion. I hope Ms. McDormand doesn’t mind that I’m taking some liberties by...
