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Be a Part of the Dialogue, with Justin Caithaml
Manage episode 182283117 series 126365
The best thing we can do for our music education programs is to be actively involved in the discussions that shape our standards. Don’t just respond to decisions that other people make without the benefit of an arts advocate guiding them. In this episode Justin deconstructs the Every Student Succeeds Act, No Child Left Behind, Common Core, and the mysteries of speaking your administration’s language. Listen: Highlight to Tweet: “It’s easy to feel unappreciated….It’s easy to turn negative. The challenge becomes not letting those thing flips the switch in your brain, and maintaining the momentum you’ve already established.” - Justin Caithaml Show Notes:
- In the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) music is listed as its own subject for a well rounded education (for the first time). Federal law now backs you up when you advocate for music education.
- Be aware of your state’s response to the legislation. Be informed, so that you can be an effective advocate.
- Find out how your administration is responding to the ESSA.
- In the 19080’s, when the “A Nation at Risk” report came out, the arts community slow to respond. National standards were not set until the 90’s. We need to be actively involved with the ESSA rollout and implementation, not responding years later to the decisions other people have made.
- How can we communicate the skills we are teaching like other subjects, without compromising the integrity of our own? Our administrators likely do not have fluency in our subject or its language. We are the translators.
- Find ways to uses tools (Sight REading Factory, self-assessment rubrics) to meet standards using the language your administration uses.
- Make use of your opportunities (like concerts) to explain how what they are hearing reflects a standard they have achieved.
- Everything ESSA
- ESSA and the arts
- Strong Arts, Strong Schools: The Promising Potential and Shortsighted Disregard of the Arts in American Schooling, by Charles Fowler
- Valuing Music in Education: A Charles Fowler Reader, Edited with critical commentary by Craig Resta
- Choir Nation group on Facebook
- Email Patreon - Support the podcast!
229 episodes
Manage episode 182283117 series 126365
The best thing we can do for our music education programs is to be actively involved in the discussions that shape our standards. Don’t just respond to decisions that other people make without the benefit of an arts advocate guiding them. In this episode Justin deconstructs the Every Student Succeeds Act, No Child Left Behind, Common Core, and the mysteries of speaking your administration’s language. Listen: Highlight to Tweet: “It’s easy to feel unappreciated….It’s easy to turn negative. The challenge becomes not letting those thing flips the switch in your brain, and maintaining the momentum you’ve already established.” - Justin Caithaml Show Notes:
- In the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) music is listed as its own subject for a well rounded education (for the first time). Federal law now backs you up when you advocate for music education.
- Be aware of your state’s response to the legislation. Be informed, so that you can be an effective advocate.
- Find out how your administration is responding to the ESSA.
- In the 19080’s, when the “A Nation at Risk” report came out, the arts community slow to respond. National standards were not set until the 90’s. We need to be actively involved with the ESSA rollout and implementation, not responding years later to the decisions other people have made.
- How can we communicate the skills we are teaching like other subjects, without compromising the integrity of our own? Our administrators likely do not have fluency in our subject or its language. We are the translators.
- Find ways to uses tools (Sight REading Factory, self-assessment rubrics) to meet standards using the language your administration uses.
- Make use of your opportunities (like concerts) to explain how what they are hearing reflects a standard they have achieved.
- Everything ESSA
- ESSA and the arts
- Strong Arts, Strong Schools: The Promising Potential and Shortsighted Disregard of the Arts in American Schooling, by Charles Fowler
- Valuing Music in Education: A Charles Fowler Reader, Edited with critical commentary by Craig Resta
- Choir Nation group on Facebook
- Email Patreon - Support the podcast!
229 episodes
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