Advocacy
Visual Arts/Media Arts Education Advocacy Resource in Development!
OAEA Board members Liz Auger-Ashworth, Bob Phillips, and Margot Roi have agreed to research and produce a new resource package on advocacy and program promotion, for elementary and secondary teachers. The completed resource will be made available to OAEA members on-line and, possibly, for sale to school boards and other arts education organizations. Potential content may include how to place students at the center of advocacy work; suggestions for forming community liaisons and coalitions; identifying and encouraging teacher-leaders; ways of collaborating with school boards; promoting local programs; and strategies for establishing a board-wide arts education policy. We hope to include promotional visuals, as well.
Following OAEA Board approval, this resource should be available sometime next spring. If you have any suggestions for the writing team or wish to be involved in some capacity, please contact Bob Phillips at bobphill@interlog.com.
Here are a few readily available resources pertaining to visual and media arts (arts) education. Others, along with specific strategies and materials for downloading, will be made available on the OAEA website later in 2012.
Advocacy Info provided by the National Art Education Association
Arts Education Advocacy Toolkit (Kennedy Center)
Grassroots Advocacy Guide for Canada (Canadian Music Education Coalition)
"Making the Case for Arts Education" (Ontario Arts Council, 1997)
"Defending your Program: An Action Toolkit" (Educational Theater Association)
Why Our Schools Need the Arts (2008) and Why Our High Schools Need the Arts (2012) both by Jessica Hoffman Davis (NY: Teachers College Press)
If you wish to be involved with the OAEA Advocacy committee, contact Bob Phillips
at bobphill@interlog.com