NATIONAL Educational RESOURCES

NATIONAL Educational RESOURCES
The National Assembly of State Arts Agencies wrote a comprehensive messaging and advocacy
guide on three areas of impact: the creative workforce, literacy development, and cognition and
social development.
http://bit.ly/azVLC0

Keep Arts in Schools offers media and messaging tips.
http://bit.ly/9gEI4n

Americans for the Arts offers one-page, easily distributed research documents to help make the
case.
http://bit.ly/9ExTNK

PTA Online Advocacy Toolkit for Parents offers a good template.
http://bit.ly/9GHRcS

Critical Evidence is a short, free publication from the Arts Education Partnership that
summarizes the last few decades worth of research about the positive impact of the arts on
student learning.
http://bit.ly/bcQNkG (PDF)

The KCAAEN Advocacy Toolkit is geared towards state leaders but offers a plethora of facts,
resources, and how-to’s to affect local change. Online videos offer more information.
http://bit.ly/6plTiN

The Support Music Community Action Kit includes a host of resources, including some in
Spanish.
http://bit.ly/939xMR