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 SPOTLIGHT: The New Mexico Music Educators Association - (NMMEA) is comprised of 525 teachers, retired teachers and collegiate members. Over 2,400 students (grades 9-12) in 89 school districts are currently enrolled in music programs throughout New Mexico. To help ensure public support for music education, the NMMEA recently appointed an Advocacy Chair and divided the state up into six districts to activate local community members and develop strategic partnerships. One such alliance will focus on outreach to symphony orchestras statewide; another targeted distribution of advocacy materials to legislators, school board members and community members. A mentoring program offers support to music teachers in their first years of service by pairing them with retired and current educators, if requested. Get ready for Back-to-School this summer - build support for music education in your community by creating a local music coalition.
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It Takes...
It's About the Journey
Last a Lifetime
Start Somewhere
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Who You Become
Keynote Address: "Beyond Measure Seven: Lessons that Linger" by Professor Larry Livingston, USC Thornton School of Music / Director of Educational Initiatives, Guitar Center; delivered at NAMM's Music Education Day Reception on Sunday January 18 2009, Anaheim California.
(MP3 Audio File / 35 min. / 24.5 MB)
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A Missing Piece in the Economic Stimulus: Hobbling Arts Hobbles Innovation
by Michele and Robert Root-Bernstein
Cultivating Demand for the Arts: Arts Learning, Arts Engagement, and State Arts Policy
Revitalizing Arts Education Through Community-Wide Coordination (2008)
Use Concurrent Resolution 121, passed by The U.S. House of Representatives in April 2007, to support your local advocacy actions!
View the statistics on public school's narrowing curriculum from the Center on Education Policy
Read "Music Advocacy: Dancing With The School Board"
by Joan Schmidt, former President, National School Boards Association
Use the Education Commission of the States' new Arts Education Report & other resources developed by Governor Huckabee's Commission on the Arts in Education.
N.J. Arts Education Census Project Report
Full report with surveys, findings, recommendations
Search the 2007-2008 AEP Arts Education State Policy Database
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