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Music Education • Orchestrating Success

ESSA Opportunities for Music EducationPolicy ASPAJanuary 25, 2016


1. A New and Clear Intent to Support Our Nation’s Schools through a Well-Rounded Education

• 1965 ESEA -Title I – Financial Assistance to Local Education Agencies for the Education of Children of Low Income Families

• 1981 ESEA – Title I - Financial Assistance to Meet Special Educational Needs of Children

• 1994 ESEA – Title I - Helping Children in Need Meet High Standards

• 2001 ESEA (NCLB) Title I – Improving the Academic Achievement of the Disadvantaged

• 2015 ESSA – Title I - Improving Basic Programs Operated by State and Local Educational Agencies


2. Enumeration of Music as a Well-Rounded Subject

Title VIII, Section 8002 - Definitions• ‘‘(52) WELL-ROUNDED EDUCATION.—The term ‘well-rounded

education’ means courses, activities, and programming in subjects such as English, reading or language arts, writing, science, technology, engineering, mathematics, foreign languages, civics and government, economics, arts, history, geography, computer science, music, career and technical education, health, physical education, and any other subject, as determined by the State or local educational agency, with the purpose of providing all students access to an enriched curriculum and educational experience.’’


3. Requirements for Well-Rounded Education Title IV: 21st Century Schools – Section 4107

Assess LEA and School Needs for Well-Rounded

Education including Music Education

Plan to address any areas needing support including

Music Education

Apply for Title IV funds to provide support including

for Music Education

Implement changes utilizing Title IV funds

Evaluate if the needs were met and/or changes

are needed


4. Flexibility of Title I Funds to Support a Well-Rounded Education

Section 1008 – Schoolwide Title I Schools (Poverty > 40%)

• Music as part of whole school reform, including not just academic achievement but school culture/climate

• Each Schoolwide school is encouraged to include activities in support of a well-rounded education in its schoolwide plan, which includes music

Section 1009 – Targeted Assistance Title I Schools• Targeted programming for identified

students at academic risk, which may include:

• “using resources under this part to help eligible children meet the challenging State academic standards, which may include programs, activities, and academic courses necessary to provide a well-rounded education” which can include music


5. More Professional Development for Music Educators

Funds from Titles I, II and IV of ESSA, may support professional development for music educators as part of a well-rounded education.– Part of opportunities in 3 chapters of ESSA– Will music educators be included

equitably?


6. Flexible Accountability Systems

• States choose multiple progress measures for schools

• Music education-friendly measures such as student engagement, parental engagement and school culture/climate can be chosen

AYP


7. Protection from “Pull Outs”The new ESSA discourages removing students from the classroom, including music and arts, for remedial instruction.• Section 1009 (Targeted Assistance Programs) - (ii)

“minimize the removal of children from the regular classroom during regular school hours for instruction provided under this part”


Additional Change to note• No HQT – ESSA does NOT contain a highly-

qualified teacher definition or requirement. The law does state, however, that teachers need to meet the credentials set forth by their state AND should have academic content knowledge for the content they teach if they are funded by ESSA.


Questions received from Policy ASPA


1. Which legislator(s) specifically added music as a separately enumerated subject in the early senate drafts? Who later developed the "well-rounded language" provisions?

2013: Current HELP Chairman Alexander's staff originally added music as a "Core Academic Subject" in earlier iteration of ESEA revision

2015: The "Well-Rounded Education" language was developed, in a bipartisan fashion, by staff working on behalf of the conference committee members


2. Are the other arts areas frustrated at our being separately enumerated?

• NAfME remains in close contact with the other arts discipline service organizations.

• NAfME has shared its implementation materials with our colleagues; EdTA has made use of our Implementation Toolkit - https://www.schooltheatre.org/advocacy/guidetoessa

• A DAMT meeting is scheduled for March– looking ahead to the next reauthorization as well as implementation implications under ESSA.

• NAfME remains committed to working with our colleagues in all the arts education areas in K-12 education; however, our mission is to support music education.

https://www.schooltheatre.org/advocacy/guidetoessa


3. Education secretaries like Rod Paige and Arne Duncan have both written letters in the past clarifying that Title I funds can/should be used for arts education, but it still doesn't really seem (at least anecdotally) to happen in a significant way. Does this spending occur? Does NAfME plan to urge this?

• Yes, the spending occurs -- but not nearly enough• NAfME has already created several new tools to help educators and

other advocates get familiar with the process of tapping into these funds.

• We are also pursuing additional guidance language, “dear Colleague letters,” national conference opportunities and more with the U.S. Department of Education to try and make the process even easier.


4. Not really a question, but a hope. I'd love to see NAfME turn its attention to petitioning and lobbying states to strengthen arts policies such as elem/MS mandates, grad requirements, adoption of standards, adoption of "core" subject language, etc. I know NAfME is reticent to jump into state matters, but we all know this is where the battle is (much more than at the federal level). Any thoughts?

1. An area of great interest to NAfME – focus, staffing, etc.2. We have created the Advocacy Leadership Force or ALF for this kind of

work – building capacity and creating tools• Meets monthly (virtually)• 40 states currently signed on• Sharing tools, resources and best practices across the states in

terms of advocacy


5. Is the little bit of STEAM language really something NAfME should be celebrating? All of the research I've done on STEAM shows that music is almost never part of STEAM schools/curricula (it's almost exclusively visual art/design). Would NAfME consider putting out a position statement on STEAM (we had discussed this with Alexandra Eaton at some point), referencing the SEADAE roles paper and/or the definitions of arts integration that integrate sequential instruction into any successful integration set-up?

1. NAfME has concerns about STEAM• Current amended language in law is fine but nothing to celebrate

2. Need to think about a position statement – perhaps Shared Endeavor and the SEADAE roles paper do enough?


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• Visit the NAfME website under “Everything ESSA” to stay up to date on materials, toolkits and resources you can use to better understand and engage with this new federal law.

• Lynn Tuttle and Chris [email protected] [email protected]

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