Advocacy Resource Center

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

• ESSER Funding Toolkit 2023– COVID Relief Funding in the Music Classroom. Information for music educators, music education advocates, and school administrators regarding the historic levels of federal funding currently making their way to schools and how these funds can be used to support music education. 
• 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.