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| Americans for the Arts Creative Industries Reports (2009) | |
Creative Industries: Business & Employment in the Arts reports offer a new, research-based approach to understanding the scope and importance of the arts to the nation's economy. With these reports, you can paint a picture of a powerful engine in your community's information economy. What makes this data especially potent is that it can be localized to any city, county, state, region, or political jurisdiction in the country. |
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| ArtsEd WA Executive Director: Voice of Innovation | July 2009 |
ArtsEd Washington Executive Director Una McAlinden was profiled by Keep Arts in Schools as a "Voice of Innovation." Listen in to hear Una's perspective on arts education advocacy in Washington state, and what we can all do to create the long-term, systemic change required to make arts education available to every student in every year of their K-12 education. |
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| KCAAEN Arts Education Advocacy Tool Kit (2009) | |
As a member of the Kennedy Center Alliance for Arts Education Network, we are proud to share with you this valuable new resource for planning, organizing and implementing your arts education advocacy efforts. The Tool Kit includes information on topics such as messaging, developing an advocacy plan, and the nine habits of effective arts education advocates. A companion video helps prepare advocates to make visits to their state and national legislators. |
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| Advocating in Your School | April 16, 2009
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"Getting the support of parents is difficult in this day and age BUT not impossible! Parents, nowadays, are busy working. Sitting down with their children to draw or paint has suffered greatly because of the change in the dynamics of the parental role. But there are ways to help parents remember the joys of ART!" |
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| Arts Education Issue Briefs from Americans for the Arts | March 2009
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In preparation for National Arts Advocacy Day on March 31, 2009, Americans for the Arts created two national policy briefs regarding arts education: Arts in Education Policy Brief 2009 Strengthening Arts Education in No Child Left Behind http://www.artsusa.org/pdf/get_involved/advocacy/congressional_arts_handbook/issue_briefs/2009/aie_nclb_09.pdf |
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| Arts Policy in the New Administration | November 21, 2008 |
Policy recommendations to the Office of Presidential Transition on behalf of a variety of national coalitions and organizations, including Americans for the Arts (of which ArtsEd Washington is a member). Recommendations are divided into five sections: National Endowment for the Arts; Cultural Exchange; Arts Education in School, Work, and Life; National Service in the Arts; and Appoint Senior-Level Administration Official to Coordinate Arts and Cultural Policy. |
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| Powerful Learning Through the Arts | |
As the advocacy project of award-winning, documentary filmmakers Brian Quist and Karen Hirsch and six arts education organizations in King County, Washington, Powerful Learning through the Arts speaks to the tremendous impact of arts learning. Featuring classroom footage and interviews from some of the nation's arts education experts, this film sheds light on an undervalued field that has had enormous impact on the youth it has touched. The film offers us a potent tool to shift the perception of what quality education is all about. |
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| ArtsEd Washington's Community Guide to Making the Arts Part of a Complete Education for Every Child - your local guide to making a difference. | |
CAAE Posts Arts Education Policy Papers Online |
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| Guiding Principles for Lobbying by Non-Profits
Earlier this month, the Center for Lobbying in the Public Interest (CLPI) released newly developed Smart and Ethical Principles and Practices for Public Interest Lobbying. The four principles and 17 practices serve as benchmarking tools that nonprofits can use to assess their current lobbying activities and set goals for their future lobbying efforts. A group of nonprofit leaders worked for 18 months to develop the principles and practices in response to the need for nonprofits to claim public interest lobbying as an honorable and effective strategy for advancing their missions. Click here to read the full list of principles and practices. Posted July 2008 / Source: Americans for the Arts |
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| The U.S. Department of Education has developed an online publication, Empowering Parents School Box: A Tool to Equip Parents for the School Year, which includes an overview of No Child Left Behind, how to be a positive voice for your child, and examples of education resources. Access the Empowering Parents School Box here. | |
| SPEAK UP FOR THE ARTS! New DVD Advocacy Tool for Arts Education Cincinnati Education Television and the Ohio Alliance for Arts Education have developed a DVD called "Speak Up for the Arts." This advocacy tool for arts education includes two videos: "Speak Up for the Arts," which provides information about the impact of the arts on students and schools; and "Advocate for the Arts," which provides practical information for arts education advocates to use to establish relationships with policy and law makers in Ohio to promote arts education. http://www.cetconnect.org Posted June 2008 |
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| Arts Education Partnership Launches Newly Updated State Policy Database The Arts Education Partnership recently launched a newly updated State Policy Database, which includes valuable information on policies affecting arts education. New tools allow users to compare multiple states’ individual policies at one time. http://www.aep-arts.org Posted June 2008 |
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| NASAA Presents New Tool Kit For Arts Advocates The National Assembly of State Arts Agencies has created a Research-Based Communication Tool Kit, a comprehensive document that brings together several components that advocates can use at state and local levels. Each component is research-based, drawing on careful reviews and analyses of research literature that confirm, explain, and clarify the role of the arts in various significant policy contexts. The sample materials in the Tool Kit, prepared by a working committee of State Arts Agency Arts Education Managers, are meant to be "boilerplate" so that arts advocates can adapt them to their contexts and needs, quickly creating targeted, personalized advocacy messages. Posted June 2008 |
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| ARTS EDUCATION: Creating Student Success In School, Work, and Life - A unified statement on arts education from several national arts education partners Posted May 2008 | |
| In the inaugural issue of Arts Education Information Quarterly, Laurie Schopp, director of Policy and Programs, VH1 Save the Music Foundation and a member of the Arts Education Council of Americans for the Arts sets out the Who, How and Why of advocacy at the local level. This encouraging and inspiring article will make you want to get started! | |
| There are many things you can do to Keep Arts in Schools. Here’s just a few quick things you can do today. | |
| Americans for the Arts, Arts Education Advocacy Advice from a trusted source | |
| NEW Advocacy Tool from MENC Music for All Students: Planning Music Education Advocacy is a new advocacy tool that has been developed and honed by MENC and the MENC Government Relations Task Force. Maintaining strong government relations programs is a priority for music education associations around the country. MENC feels that effective state legislative efforts are the product of grassroots networks. Music for All Students: Planning Music Education Advocacy is a guide that will assist state organizations in developing those networks to support music education and the arts generally. Posted Sept 2007 |
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| SupportMusic Community Action Kit A comprehensive toolkit to help you advocate for a complete education that includes music instruction for every child. With many templates and tools translated into Spanish, you can also reach parents and families whose primary and most familiar language is Spanish. | |
| VH1 Save the Music Foundation Advocacy Resources Everything you need to be an effective advocate for music education in your community. Start with the Advocate's Guide to help get you started. Letters, research and School Board presentations are all just one click away! | |
| Music for All Foundation No Child Left Behind Resources Check out the many resources through this group. Music SOS – How to Save an Arts or Music Program Music for All, Inc. recently supplied a quick response to an e-mail sent, via their website’s “panic button.” In the e-mail a teacher relayed her urgent problem: her school’s principals and superintendent recommended to the school board that they cut the elementary music program and replace it with an after school option. Music for All provided her with a strategic, informed response to the school board, based on facts. To see what happened, visit the blog here, which provides practical steps that any arts education advocate can use in a similar immediate crisis. |
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| The public awareness campaign, Art. Ask for More., rallies the support and influence of parents to ensure full access to high-quality arts education for all students. | |
| Grade Your School’s Music Program This interactive tool from SupportMusic.com will help you to identify the gaps in your program. See how your school measures up! | |
| Arts Learning in Action Toolkit The objective of the Arts Learning in Action campaign is to raise awareness among state, county and local elected officials about the essential value of arts education in schools. This step-by-step toolkit is the product of the California State PTA and CAAE’s statewide campaign to bring elected officials into schools to witness the power of learning in the arts during the month of March. It could be adapted for use any time of the year! | |
| Education Commission of the States, Governor Huckabee's arts in education initiative | |
| Artscan Policy Database Check out ECS' 50-state database on policies that support the arts in education. | |
| Media Paints Arts Education in Fading Light How does the national press portray arts education? And how can we counteract it? Find out in this new media analysis released by ECS. | |