Advocacy

Collective Impact Collective Impact can help communities accomplish big things in arts education. The term “collective impact” has been associated...

The term “strategic communications” describes a messaging plan linked to overarching goals. It sits at the heart of advocacy success...

Perspective is broadly defined as having a particular point of view. What do we see from where we are standing?...

Individuals stand at the heart of advocacy strategy. We advocate every day, formally and informally. We advance causes for ourselves...

The S.M.A.R.T. approach focuses instruction and experience around success, modeling, activities, reflection, and trust as these five elements seem to...

I am a lifetime advocate for music and arts education. In more recent years - especially since 2020 - as the...

I’m at that point in life when I look back and try to figure out who those people were that...

Boy, do we need some good news. The world is out of sorts. It’s hard to go through a day...

What is your point of view in arts education advocacy? Are you the arts educator, working everyday to advance students’...

“Concert and Sight-Reading Evaluation,” “Concert Contest,” “Large Group Evaluation,” whatever name it goes by in your state, many directors find...

There comes a time for honest reflection in the life of every music educator and music education program. Students are...

Photo by Andreas Schantl on Unsplash In the natural world, ecosystems may be as small as a tide pool or as vast as...