Unity
Advocacy
and Alliances
Establish and nurture
cooperative relationships with other organizations, agencies and
professions with whom we share common interests whose ambitions and goals
include supporting and expanding the preservation of music.
A.1 Identify and connect with organizations and affiliations that support
and encourage music.
A.1.1 Advocate for district, state policies, legislation, and State Board
Rules that support music in the schools and provide equal access to music
instruction for all students.
A.1.2 Establish collaboration with additional state organizations
confronting similar issues.
A.1.3 Develop a platform for the Arkansas Legislative annually.
A.1.4 Develop and distribute a "talking points" brochure each year
specific to legislation.
A.1.5 Design strategies encouraging “friends of music” to communicate with
legislators.
A.2 Utilize Play It Again Arkansas and other organizations for varied
venues of support: e.g. information, students in need, clinics, publicity,
etc.
A.3 Advocate daily scheduled general music instruction (to be taught by
certified music educators) for all elementary school students in Arkansas.
A.4 Conduct research and distribute results to participants,
administrators and legislators of elementary and secondary school music
instruction.
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A.5 Design and circulate media advocacy strategies.
A.5.1 Develop collaborations, identify common concerns, mutually work
toward solutions with other fine arts and education organizations (e.g.
ACDA, ASBOA, AMEA, etc.).
A.5.2 Coordinate activities with other music entities in Arkansas.
A.5.3 Promote collaboration between music and other subject areas.
A.5.4 Promote collaboration, propaganda, and workshops with the Arkansas
Counselor Association (ARCA) to encourage the importance and merit of
scheduling to offer opportunities for all students to participate in music
all the way through high school and college.
A.5.5 Collaborate with the ADE a complete music education for students
K-12 and beyond.
A.5.6 Create collaboration, propaganda, and workshops with the Arkansas
Association of School Boards and the Arkansas Association of Educational
Administrators to communicate the role of music in schools.
A.5.7 Create a defined relationship which supports, promotes, interacts,
and communicates with community music organizations.
A.5.8 Initiate and expand collaborations on advocacy issues with the music
industry and other related industries.
A.6 Encourage more opportunities for industry sponsored clinicians to
interact with students.
A.7 Expand our professional learning community.
A.8 Endorse two music representatives to be positioned on the Arkansas
Activities Association Board.