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Music Advocates & Fans of Music Programs in Arizona!
In today’s challenging economic times, we must unite to help music programs in Arizona survive and flourish. Please use the resources and advocacy tools found on this site to help your plight from the local level to the state legislature. Solicit the support of parents and community members as well as local and state leaders. Join in our advocacy discussions to share your ideas and successes in advocating for music programs in Arizona’s school. It will take everyone every day to let our voices be heard. Get involved and join our chorus! Help keep music alive in Arizona!
AMEA Advocacy Strategic Plan AMEA Advocacy Goals
The Advocacy Committee – Arizona Music Educators Association ameaadvocacy@gmail.com
Julie Gragg, AMEA Member-at-Large/Advocacy Liaison Diane Grieser, Advocacy Committee
Lynn Tuttle, ADE Director of Arts Education William Patterson, AMEA President
“When we think positively and imagine what we want, we risk disappointment; when we don’t, we ensure it.”
- Lana Limpert
Everyone must advocate every day to help keep music alive in Arizona!
Tom H
orne on Advocating for the Arts in Arizona
“Teachers often want to devote all of their attention to their students. However, in a public school system, the public is our boss and we cannot succeed unless we communicate effectively with them. At this time of budget difficulty, it is especially urgent that arts teachers devote the time necesssary to communicate with the public and with decision makers the importance of preserving our arts programs. If we do not do this effectively, future generations may lose our precious inheritance that developed over centuries and that we have the sacred obligation of preserving.” – Tom Horne, Arizona State Superintendent of Public Instruction
A M
essage of Advocacy from Bob Morrison
Bob Morrison is a nationally lauded advocate for arts education in our country. Mr. Morrison is co-founder of Quadrant Arts Education Research, on of the nation’s leading research and market intelligence organizations focusing on music and arts education. Quadrant serves both the commercial and governmental sectors and has pioneered ground-breaking research on the status and condition of arts education in the United States. Now is the time, Arizona!
Jackie Thrasher on Why Arts Education Matters
”We need leaders who believe in investing in our children, diversifying our economy, creating jobs, ensuring public safety and supporting sustainable growth; not ideology and partisan games.” – - Jackie Thrasher. Jackie is the band and orchestra director at Lookout Mountain Elementary School in Phoenix, teaching in the Washington School District for 30 years. She holds a Bachelor of Music Degree from Arizona State University and is a former Arizona State Representative running for District 10 Arizona House of Representatives in November 2010. Mrs. Thrasher whole-heartedly advocates for full funding of arts education in Arizona schools.
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