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Welcome Parents!
If you’re a parent involved in your child’s education,
ideas like organizing, writing letters, speaking out at school
board meetings and similar activities are nothing new to you.
You also know that a school community includes many constituencies,
all competing for limited resources. The person before you
at that school board meeting may be speaking out for a better
sports program, and the person after you may argue for more
library books. And no one’s wrong.
There are special resources available to help you establish
that music is special—not only for its own sake, but
for its benefits to young minds and lives. First and foremost,
the Music Education Advocates Toolkit
has been put together with just this sort of task in mind—it’s
full of tips, sample correspondence, public service announcements
and other items that will make you the best-informed person
in the room.
You should also be familiar with the expanding frontiers
of music-brain research—a
field that’s finding new connections between active music
making and better brainpower (and higher grades!) in young
kids.
Resources
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