Fine Arts Teachers Get It by Jon Orech

Art for Our Sake by Ellen Winner and Lois Hetland

My Arts Education page has links that support the arts and advocacy sites.

Why Arts? Because Your Brain is Hungry!

Video: You Need to Be an Arts Advocate 1:40

Video: Arts Integration and You 3:05

Video: Art Beat.mov

Childhood, Culture & Creativity: A Literature Review
Understanding how children conceptualise themselves and their place in the world is crucial for ...

Frog Design: The Four Secrets of Playtime That Foster Creative Kids. Our world is increasingly filled with play that makes kids passive consumers instead of act

The SuperPowers of Play: 46 SuperPowers for the 21st Century
Introduction
The year: 2010.
Our education: In question.
Our creativity: In crisis.

7 Creative Principles of Pixar
1. Never come up with just one idea....

Check out this amazing program in Venezuela, "El Sistema". We need more programs like this in our country.

J.K. Rowling on Failure And Imagination: We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ... we have the power imagine better.

Arts Edge on the Kennedy Center website is filled with lesson plans, advocacy information and more!

Where Do Arts Stand in Our Schools?

How Arts Training Improves Attention and Cognition - Dana Foundation

Ford Arts Ed Initiative

Arts Infusion Teaching School

My art philosophy/advocacy video.

The Creativity Crisis, Newsweek, July 10, 2010

Why Emotion, Not Knowledge, Is the Catalyst for Change

Stanford Thompson’s Tune Up Philly is a program like El Sistema.