Recent:
- A Citizen’s Guide to Participation in the Wisconsin State Legislature
- Letter from WMEA to Wisconsin Legislature Advocating for Licensed Teachers in Public Schools (pdf)
- NAfME’s “Broader Minded” Website – A Complete Argument for Music Education
- Importance of music in our schools featured in Wisconsin School News!
- Join the interactive community of music parent support groups. Visit the National Association of Music Parents.
- “Like” us and stay connected on Facebook
For more ideas check out our past featured links:
- Music: It Gets the Brain Working (pdf) – By Peggy Hill-Breunig, as published by Hometown News
- Young Performers Initiative – Special partnership between Wisconsin School Music Association and Wisconsin Public Television
- Economic Impact of the Arts – Latest data shows growing strength in arts and culture sector, from Wisconsin from Wisconsin Arts Board
- How Genius Works: Paul Simon and visual artist Chuck Close talk about inspiration and the creative process. For the full article and video, click here.
- Six good reasons for advocating the importance of arts in school – from The Dana Foundation
- Sit at the Table or Be on the Menu – a call for active involvement
- To Tug the Heartstrings, Music First Must Tickle the Neurons – NY Times, April, 2011
- Music advocacy presentation from JW Pepper
- How the arts can spark creativity in the 21st century workforce – The Art of Science Learning
- Free advocacy guides from Chorus America
- Department of Education Briefing: Teaching the Whole Child (video)
- Arts Advocacy Day – Information about this annual event, held each spring
- Excerpts from author and NYU professor Diane Ravitch’s address to the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters. March 8, 2011, Madison, WI.
- Kevin Spacey on Crucial Impact of the Arts
- Why an “A” is not enough (video)- A musical demonstration by a music teacher of what is wrong with education in the United States today. How just an A, is not good enough. How teaching to pass the government’s test is dumbing down America.
- Mike Huckabee on the importance of arts education. (video) Then republican presidential candidate and former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee met with The Des Moines Register’s editorial board Friday, April 13, 2007.
- Dear Administrator video (video)- Wisconsin School Musician, January 2011
- Music and the Brain Linking Early Music Instruction and Cognitive Ability
- Wisconsin Task Force on Arts and Creativity in Education The Creative Wisconsin Guide for Local Community Action Planning
