National Arts Organizations

AATE Online – American Alliance for Theater and Education
www.aate.com

AMC – American Music Conference
www.amc-music.com

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

AMTA – American Music Therapy Association
www.musictherapy.org/

ASBDA – American School Band Directors Association
www.asbda.com

ASTA – American String Teachers Association with National School Orchestra Association
www.astaweb.com

Arts Education Partnership
aep-arts.org
This partnership includes 140 national organizations that aim to influence education policy and practice to make quality arts central to education.

ASCD – Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
www.ascd.org
An organization devoted to general learning, but much of the information can be related to the arts.

CCSSO The Council of Chief State School Officers
www.ccsso.org/
An administrative site for public officials in elementary and secondary schools. 

ETA – Educational Theater Association
www.edta.org/

IGODAP – The International Guild of Disabled Artists and Performers
www.igodap.org

MENC – The Music Educators National Conference
www.menc.org

The National Assembly of State Arts Organizations
www.nasaa-arts.org  
Fosters the connection between students and artists. 

NATS – National Association of Teachers of Singing, Inc.
www.nats.org/

NAEA – the National Art Education Association
www.naea-reston.org

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

NDEO – National Dance Education Organization
www.ndeo.org/ 

OAKE – Organization of American Kodaly Educators
www.oake.org

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

Very Special Arts
www.vsarts.org

USITT – United States Institute for Theater Technology
www.usitt.org

Young Audiences
www.youngaudiences.org  
They’ve been representing performing and visual artists to children since 1952.

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