Materials to help you promote and protect your program, and pull together an advocacy team. Tips for working with stake holders and constituents.

• Get the Message! Flyers
  Different flyers to guide advocacy work with parents, principals (secondary and elementary) and school boards. Available for printing off the web. Note: these flyers are not available in paper form from NAfME. 
  • Parents
  • Elementary Principals
  • Secondary Principals
  • School Boards
• Advocacy "Grab and Go" Flyer 
  A handy, portable flyer for getting started in music education advocacy. “How to” in a nutshell!

• Music Booster Manual
  Excerpt from the NAfME publication on setting up and running a music booster program.

• Building Support for School Music Programs  A soup-to-nuts advocacy guide to assist local music education advocacy groups, from how to get started to how to evaluate the group’s progress. Produced by the National Coalition for Music Education (NCME), a coalition formed to represent music educators, performers, and people in the music business.

• Advocacy Position Statement
  NAfME (formerly MENC) produced position statement on the need for advocacy on behalf of the study of music.

• Music for All Students 
  A planning guide for state-level music education advocacy. Contains sample advocacy and thank-you letters to state legislators. 

• Music Advocacy: Moving From Survival to Vision  by John Benham
  Co-published with: The National Association for Music Education 
  Benham’s book is a compilation of research and experience gained from 30 years’ experience helping save $70 million in proposed music cuts equivalent to approximately 2000 teaching positions and 400,000 music students. Benham is one of the nation's most successful advocates for music education. His book provides the music educator, administrator, school board member, and community advocate with step-by-step procedures for saving and building school music programs. 

• NAfME Recommendations for Music Teacher Evaluations
  As increasing numbers of states and local school districts engage in development of teacher evaluation systems, this guide will help you navigate this new terrain.