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How Do We Make People Care?
Clayton Lord There are a lot of posts coming in about advocacy and arts education, and many of them are both hopeful and cautious about what’s happening now in the world. It’s good to see such...
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Connecting Arts Education, Creativity, and Innovation
Kathi R. Levin In today’s struggling economy, there is renewed emphasis on the importance of creativity and innovation. Most of us in the arts automatically think of creativity and innovation as...
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My Experience Testifying for Arts Education
Joan Weber As part of my pledge to Testify for Arts Education, I showed up at the Carroll County (MD) Board of Education meeting on March 9. The room was full, as the board had recently released its...
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Encouraging the Student Voice
Kathi R. Levin Participation in and advocacy for the arts and arts education is a lifetime, persistent agenda that many of us believe is critical to living an educated, reflective, expressive, and...
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Beyond the Choir
Kim Dabbs In my undergraduate training, I was given the opportunity to earn my degree in Studio Art History at Kendall College of Art and Design in Michigan. This program gave me a comprehensive art...
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Money is Policy
Richard Kessler When the categorical funding line for arts education in the New York City Public Schools was eliminated, essentially to “empower the principals” and to increase the total budget...
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Where is Our “Road Map?”
Marete Wester As I write this, the clock is ticking on the deadline for the March 18 end to the Continuing Resolution passed by the Congress that allows the government to keep on working—despite the...
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Leave No Child Inside – The Importance of Field Trips
Alyx Kellington Across the nation, field trips are being eliminated from school district’s budgets. Teachers are restricted by the pressures from districts to show curricular results and to cover...
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21st Century Skills – Not Just for Students Anymore
Lynne Kingsley Though it’s a generally accepted concept that infusing 21st Century Skills into education for our nation’s students is vital for creating and maintaining a strong, globally competitive...
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In the Principal’s Office: The Art of the “Absolute Basics” of Schooling
Merryl Goldberg I was in the principal’s office this morning, but not because I was in trouble. I am working with a wonderfully committed principal in Vista, CA, Mary Contreras, on developing ways to...
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The Challenge and Opportunity of Parent Engagement
Richard Kessler If I were to think of an emblematic phrase, in arts education, it might very well be: parents are key. Even U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, when asked on a teleconference about...
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Southeast Center for Education in the Arts: 25 Years in Arts Education
Allen Bell Back in 1987, the Getty Center for Education in the Arts (later known as the Getty Education Institute for the Arts), a program of the J. Paul Getty Trust, began a series of Regional...
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Oh, Canada!: A Tax Credit for Arts Education?!
Tim Mikulski I wasn’t planning on writing another “issue post” today, but I came across an article this morning that just can’t be ignored. In a report from Canada’s CTV network, Prime Minister Stephen...
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Thrill Kill & Other “Fun” Activities
Listening to my grandmother tell stories about her youth, I cringed at the gallows humor of her siblings grabbing chickens by the neck and swinging them around their head trying to make a quick break,...
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Salon, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Adieu
Tim Mikulski As my third Arts Education Blog Salon comes to a conclusion, I wanted to first thank you for stopping by and (hopefully) reading all 31 posts over the past week. The good news is that all...
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