Arts Advocacy
Creative Arts Advocacy:
Click on the links below to find resources, websites and journal articles to find out WHY teaching the arts is important and how it can revolutionise your teaching and the children’s outcomes!
Share them with your principal, teaching team, children and parents.
Let them know how IMPORTANT it is for children to learn the Creative Arts!
Americans for the Arts
Arts Advocacy websites
Arts & Academic improvement
Arts Education Partnerships: Promoting the essential role of the art in learning
Arts Education Publications (National Endowment for the Arts: USA)
Arts for Learning
Arts IN Education
Arts matters: How the arts can help meet the needs of children and young people
Benefits of the Arts
Champions of Change: The impact of the arts on learning (download pdf)
Critical Links: Learning in the arts
Developing children’s full potential through the arts
How arts transform schools
How the arts impact communities
Music Education Advocacy Articles
Benefits of art and music education to children’s development and academic achievement
Music Education Coalition
Coalition for Music Education in California
Slideshow on Music Education
The arts are basic to achievement