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C’s Music Booster Manual
This manual is intended to help music educators focus that energy by setting up, guiding, and working with a booster organization. Some of the information is directed primarily toward the music teacher, and some is for the boosters themselves. Some of the procedures described will be most appropriate for large organizations, but even the smallest groups will benefit from considering the principles behind the processes.
Arts Ed & Art of Advocacy
Created by the Arizona Citizens for the Arts, this powerful guide will help inspire and educate anyone in becoming a strong advocate for arts education in Arizona.
Building Support for Music: Organizing for Action
MENC offers tips to help organize and activate a local group for advocacy; from collaborations with other arts advocacy coalitions to strategies in spreading the importance of music education in our schools.
Music for All Students: Planning Music Education Advocacy
A practical guide to planning music education advocacy efforts; strategic planning, organization, sample communications, analysis, partnerships, activation, evaluation, maintenance and building relationships
MENC Public Service Announcements
Why Music? is a compilation of radio public service announcements produced twice annually by MENC to coincide with Music In Our Schools Month in March and with the traditional beginning of school in late August. The series features top coutnry, pop, jazz and classical artists talking about the value of music education. It is targeted for audiences of adult contemporary, country, classical and jazz.
Make Your Case
A comprehensive database of facts, statistics, research and anecdotes to support your communications promoting music education
The Power of Music Brochures
“The Power of Music . . . Changing Lives” is a series of four advocacy brochures designed for distribution to parents, school board members, elementary school principals and secondary administrators, to give those audiences “the why and the how” of supporting school music education. Each brochure can be downloaded in PDF format to reproduce copies for distribution. Print copies are also available for purchase; visit www.menc.org or call 800-828-0229.
Find Your Elected Officials
This efficient tool helps find your state and national elected leaders by zip code; includes email address, phone number, local office information plus committee participation and views 
Track How Your Elected Official is Voting
Subscribe to MEGA Vote to electronically track your officials’ voting records
The Recorder: MENC Leglistative News Feed
The latest on music education news and issues from Capitol Hill and around the country
Music Education in the Law
Know the facts! This document was developed as a service to the music education community by MENC: the National Association for Music Education. It may be reproduced or quoted freely, as long as MENC is properly credited.
Arts Education Partnership State Policy Database
This searchable database contains the latest information on arts education state policies and practices. Since 1999, AEP has gathered data through an annual survey of arts education personnel in state education agencies from all 50 states and the District of Columbia; arts education mandates-state standards-assessment requirements, arts requirements for high school graduation and college adminssions, licensure requirements for arts and non-arts teachers, and continuing education requirements for arts teachers.
MENC’s Webinar Link
The National Association for Music Education created a series of Webminars focusing on music education advocacy. Archived for reference, the 2007 series aimed to give MENC members and other music education advocates the information they need to build and support strong school music programs.
Support Music
SupportMusic.com is a public service led by NAMM and MENC, which intends to critically impact resolve and support for music education in local communities around the United States. Tens of thousands of concerned citizes visit this website monthly, looking for ways to defend their local school music programs. The SupportMusic coalition invites all interested arts, parent, education, civic engagement and youth-serving organizations to become affiliates. Organizations interested in participation in the music education coalition may contact info@namm.org.
Now More Than Ever
Sponsored by NAMM and MENC, this action plan is a guide for quick activation by supporters of school music programs
Keep Music Education Strong
NAMM presents the importance of music in our schools and research supporting the benefits of music education
Building Support for School Music
Getting organized for music education advocacy from the local to state levels
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C’s MusicFriends
Sponsored by MENC, MusicFriends is a group of parents, community members and other music advocates working to support local school music programs through grassroots initiatives. Through MusicFriends, MENC raises awareness about the importance of music education in schools and communities across the nation.
Why Music? Why Band?
Tim Lautzenheiser is a well-known name in the music education world as a teacher, clinician, author, composer, conductor, consultant, and, above all, a trusted friend to anyone interested in working with young people in developing a desire for excellence. Use this article as a means to press your point for the validity of music education in our schools.
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