California Arts Advocacy Toolkit For K-12 Arts Education Produced by: Monterey County Office of Education Project Coordinator Hamish Tyler

The Arts Advocacy Toolkit For K-12 Education is an online archive of print and video materials that can be used to advocate for arts education in your community. The Toolkit is designed for use by a broad range of stakeholders: educators, board members, parents and business leaders.

This brief presentation will look at the four main areas of the Toolkit website and will highlight the available tools. For a demonstration of the Toolkit website, please watch the short video that accompanies this presentation.

This is the home page of the Toolkit website.

At the top of the home page, you will find a set of public service messages by noted educators, artists and business leaders. These powerful videos could be given to your local television station or posted on your website. You might also use them as a model for public service messages by leaders in your community.

At the bottom of the home page, you will find print materials that could be used as templates for your own advocacy messages. On the left are sample letters, speeches, Power Points, etc..

On the right you will find a variety of articles, planning guides and leadership tools.

Now it’s time to dive into the Arts Advocacy Toolkit! And discover how you can be an advocate for student learning in the arts…

And why is that important? I wonder…

This presentation was created by Robert Bullwinkel, VAPA Coordinator for the Fresno County Office of Education. This work was funded by the Hewlett Foundation through a grant to the California County Superintendents Educational Services Association’s Statewide Arts Initiative. All images are non-restricted. This work may be used free of charge for all non-commercial applications. Please give appropriate credit as listed above.

California Arts Advocacy Toolkit For K-12 Art Education Produced by: Monterey County Office of Education Project Coordinator Hamish Tyler