AATE Online - American Alliance for Theater and Education
http://www.aate.com

AMC - American Music Conference
http://www.amc-music.com

AMLA the Alliance for a Media Literate America
http://www.amlainfo.org/

AMTA - American Music Therapy Association
http://www.musictherapy.org/factsheets/musiced.html

American Orff-Schulwerk Association
http://www.aosa.org/

ASBDA - American School Band Directors Association
http://www.asbda.com

ASTA - American String Teachers Association with National School Orchestra Association
http://www.astaweb.com

Arts Education Partnership
http://aep-arts.org The Partnership includes 140 organizations nationally that aim to influence education policy and practice to make quality arts central to education. You will find links to a number of articles referring to "best practices." http://aep-arts.org/Links.htm will take you to a listing of dozens of arts organizations in the country.

ASCD - Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
http://www.ascd.org An organization devoted to general learning, but much can be related to the arts.

CCSSO The Council of Chief State School Officers
http://www.ccsso.org/ State Superintendent of Schools "talk," but their interest (or lack of interest) affects arts education.

Dalcroze Society of America
http://www.dalcrozeusa.org/home.htm

ETA - Educational Theater Association
http://www.edta.org/

IGODAP - The International Guild of Disabled Artists and Performers
http://www.igodap.org

MENC - The Music Educators National Conference
http://www.menc.org

The National Assembly of State Arts Organizations
http://www.nasaa-arts.org Often a help to schools, usually connecting artists and students.

NATS - National Association of Teachers of Singing, Inc.
http://www.nats.org/welcome.html

NAEA - the National Art Education Association
http://www.naea-reston.org

NDA - National Dance Association
http://www.aahperd.org/nda/template.cfm?template=main.html

NDEO - National Dance Education Organization
http://www.ndeo.net (Temporarily unavailable. Check back later.)

Opera America
http://www.operaam.org See Education/Audience Development.

OAKE - Organization of American Kodaly Educators
http://www.oake.org

National PTA
http://www.pta.org/ Links to your local PTA. PTA's have supported arts programming. Your PTA may or may not be supportive of arts programming, but with your input things can grow or change for the better.

Very Special Arts
http://www.vsarts.org

USITT - United States Institute for Theater Technology
http://www.usitt.org

Young Audiences
http://www.youngaudiences.org Since 1952, presenting performing and visual artists to children.