Advocacy Resource Center

To help you plan your teaching and support your music education advocacy efforts, NAfME offers the following resources.

• Unified Statement: Arts Education: Supporting Student Success in School and the Workforce. This document highlights research on how the arts keep students succeeding in school, build workplace success skills, are a successful career pathway, and why they must be provided to all students. These talking points can be used by music educators and other arts advocates when communicating with decision makers at the federal, state, and local levels.
• Music and Social-Emotional Learning (SEL). Research tells us that music educators are well-suited to help students develop socially and emotionally.
  • How can public policy support music education and Social Emotional Learning? (brochure)
  • Music Education and SEL: An Advocacy Tool for Music Educators (brochure)
  • Virtual Congressional Briefing: Music, Arts, and Social-Emotional Learning: Working Together for Positive Student Outcomes
• Local Advocacy Action Plan. This resource is intended to aid music educators and music education supporters as they seek to improve the overall condition of a music program.
• Webinars
  • Amplifying Your Voice: Advocacy Strategies for Music Educators
  • Empowering Teachers to Advocate for Federal and State Arts Education Policy
  • Arts Ed Alliance: Department of Education Arts Guidance Webinar