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Celebrate the achievements of your students and the impact dance has on their education.

• Consider starting a chapter of the National Honor Society for Dance Arts at your school or studio. By recognizing the artistic and academic achievements of exceptional dance students, you help to honor the field of dance education overall and improve our image to those outside the field.
• Help your students become docents of their learning. Empower them to understand and articulate the importance of dance in their education to their parents, friends, classmates, teachers, and school leaders.
• Incorporate advocacy efforts in your curriculum. Have students write letters to government officials or the editors of local newspapers in support of dance and dance education.

Collect evidence on the value of dance education to support your programs and classes.

• Check out our Advocacy Tools page for videos, publications, brochures, and statistics that support the role of dance in education.
• Collect your own evidence by asking students to write testimonials about the impact of dance education in their lives and documenting the good work that they do through videos, blogs, websites, digital archives and portfolios.
• Share your evidence with NDEO and with your local community. Post to our online forums, share on social media, and publicize your students’ efforts by inviting the media to cover important events and issues.
• Use this information to support, market, and improve your program.

Follow the latest developments in advocacy news via our online Advocacy Forum. Here, you can learn about national issues as well as prompt discussions and share insights from your local experience.

Keep us informed of your advocacy needs so that we can better serve you as the largest dance education membership organization in the country.

If you have an advocacy concern that needs immediate attention, contact NDEO’s Advisory Board Director for Advocacy, Stephanie Milling, at smilling@mailbox.sc.edu.

NDEO staff is available for consultations and can arrange for speaking engagements with the NDEO Executive Director to address your local and state needs. For example, the Colorado Dance Education Organization (CoDEO) needed expert testimony in support of state dance certification, and contacted NDEO Executive Director, Susan McGreevy-Nichols to speak on their behalf. For this type of assistance and other general advocacy inquiries contact Susan McGreevy-Nichols at smcgreevy-nichols@ndeo.org.

Join a local arts organization or partner with other nearby schools and studios to create your own! At the state level, your NDEO state affiliate can provide opportunities for networking and advocacy. Click here for more info on state affiliates.

Participate annually in the National Arts Action Summit held annually in Washington, DC in early spring and hosted by Americans for the Arts. Join NDEO to urge Congress to provide more funding for dance and adopt stronger policies that support the arts.

Write to your elected officials to let them know you are a dance educator, and you vote! Americans for the Arts has created a simple platform from which you can easily contact your local, state, and national officials to show your support for dance and dance education funding and policies.

Become familiar with dance standards and use them to advocate for effective, safe and developmentally appropriate dance education in your school or studio. Click here for more information regarding dance standards.

How Does NDEO Advocate? Click Here to Learn More

Looking For Advocacy Tools? Click Here to Learn More

Top photo: Dance Project, Inc. and Zoe Litaker Photograph; Bottom photo: Gregory Reed and Thomas Armour Youth Ballet