Across the US, school budgets are tightening and music programs,
often the first asked to compromise in the name of a balanced
budget, face a seemingly grim future. Monetary restrictions
combined with an increasing focus on test scores have led to heavy
cuts in school music programs. In many cases, communities and
teachers untrained in advocacy are helpless in the face of the
school board, with no one willing and comfortable to speak up on
their behalf. In Advocate for Music!: A Guide to User-Friendly
Strategies, Lynn M. Brinckmeyer, respected educator and past
president for the National Association for Music Education,
provides a manual for music teachers motivated to advocate but
lacking the experience, resources, or time to acquire the skills to
do so effectively. It will serve as a toolkit for advocating, and
also for sharing resources, strategies and ideas useful for
educating everyone - from community members to political
representatives - about the immediate and long-term benefits of
music education. In Advocate for Music!, Brinckmeyer draws on a
lifetime of arts advocacy to provide answers to the questions so
many teachers have but are afraid - or simply too busy - to ask. A
simple, hands-on guidebook for becoming an effective advocate for
the arts, Advocate for Music! is structured around six key
questions: what is advocacy? Why focus on it? Who should do it? How
does one do it? Where should we advocate? And when should we
advocate? Readers will have access to step-by-step guidelines and
strategies on how to engage others, and themselves, in a variety of
levels of advocacy activities. In addition to granting access to
compelling research projects, the book will provide models of
letters, webinars, research findings, printed documents, websites
and contact information useful for communicating with local, state
and national decision makers. Working in an informal, hands-on
manner, Brinckmeyer lays out advice on who to work with and what to
do: providing concrete examples of advocacy tactics from ideas on
how to cooperate with the gym teacher to a sample speech for the
holiday concert. As she walks the reader through the a myriad of
real-life examples and practical answers to her central questions,
Brinckmeyer shows that every educator, parent, family member, and
administrator can and should be engaged in advocating to maintain,
and support, the right for today's children and adolescents to have
access to high quality music education. Advocate for Music! is an
important book not only for all pre-service and inservice music
teachers, but aso for state MEA leaders and staff, administrators,
parents, community members, and all those involved with arts or
education associations.
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