info & resources
Many other reports and resources are provided by academic arts research centers or can be found on the web, including:
- National Guild for Community Arts Education
(formerly the National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts) - National Endowment for the Arts
- California Arts Council
- Arts Council Silicon Valley
- Suzuki Association
- LiveSV.com
Some local contacts:
Education:
- Mountain View Whisman School District
- Mountain View Educational Foundation
- Los Altos-Mountain View PTA Council
Special needs education:
- Abilities United
- Morgan Autism Center
- Pacific Autism Center for Education
- Mountain View Whisman Special Education PTA (SEPTA)
- Los Altos School District SEPTA
- SELPA 1 CAC(Special Education Learning Plan Area Community Advisory Council for Los Altos, Palo Alto and Mountain View, CA)
Toolkits, sample letters, presentations and announcements, and action plans to help you develop your own program to speak up4arts can be found on:
- www.supportmusic.com (info & kits for both music and art)
- www.californiaartstoolkit.com (sample public service announcements)
- www.nmarts.org/pdf/artsedadvocacy_kit.pdt (New Mexico arts education advocacy kit)
Educational Articles of Interest
- Arts Advocacy Day Testimony from Linda Ronstadt
- Bobby McFerrin demonstrates the power of the pentatonic scale
- DoSomething.org's interview with India Arie on what music education meant to her
- Karl Paulnack's Welcome Address at the Boston Conservatory
Sept. 1, 2004.
CSMA welcomes volunteers to help with this important work. To join in, contact volunteer@arts4all.org.
