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=Ten Strategies for Art Teachers to Promote Art Education during Youth Art Month=


 * 1) Ask your principal to sign a **Youth Art Month Endorsement Certificate **. Ask your mayor and/or superintendent to sign a **Youth Art Month Proclamation **. Display them prominently in your school office or lobby. Print the forms out here! Send us documentation!
 * 2) Create a **bulletin board ** in honor of Youth Art Month. You can include **TN’s theme (Art Speaks! Let Your Creative Voice Be Heard) ** or the new 5-year official national theme adopted by the Council for Art Education **(Art Shapes the World) ** or both! Or, you can devise your own theme, as long it is honors student artists and art in our schools. Send us a jpeg photo of your bulletin board!
 * 3) If your school has an art show this month, include the **Youth Art Month logo **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> in the signage and promotional materials. Download the YAM logo here: [] .  <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Send us a jpeg photo of how you display it!
 * 4) <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Arrange to have art highlighted in your school’s **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">daily announcements **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> through the month of March. You could have **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">art quotes **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> read, or announce an **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“Artist of the Day” **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> –it could be a student artist or a famous artist. Email us to let us know what you did!
 * 5) <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Announce Youth Art Month on your **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">school web site **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">. Send us a link!
 * 6) <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Discuss Youth Art Month in your **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">teacher blog **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">. Send us a link!
 * 7) <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">Team up with **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">language arts teachers ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"> to have students write **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">statements ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"> about what art means to them, why art class is important, or what their favorite art experience has been…or **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">write letters to public officials ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"> about the importance of art in our school! Send us copies!!! We love student quotes!
 * 8) <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">Ask a **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">local business ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"> (or two or three or more) to support Youth Art Month by programming receipt printers to include a simple statement, such as “March is Youth Art Month…Support Art in Tennessee Schools” or by **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">displaying student art for the public to enjoy ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">. Include a sign indicating that it’s Youth Art Month. Send us a recept with the printed message and/or a jpeg photo of the display!
 * 9) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">Issue **certificates of appreciation** to **p****arents who support your art program**, thanking them for being a “**Friend of the Art Department**.” Use our template (to be added soon to the wiki), or create one of your own—or have a student design it!
 * 10) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">**Document, document, document!** Let your YAM co-chairs know whatever you do—big or small!—to acknowedge and promote Youth Art Month so we can include it in our state’s report!