In a particularly savvy move the National Association for Music Education is organizing a major effort to broaden the narrow and exclusionary (science, technology, engineering, and Math (STEM) discourse to the inclusive and more holistic STEAM (A = arts) discourse through the get STEAMed initiative. We have been through this before with the Sputnik era and Back to Basics movements among other initiatives that focused on science, technology, engineering, and math while excluding other aspects of education and ways of knowing or being in the world.
Information on the campaign below. Please consider participating.
POLITICO Pro’s Education Team will be holding a Twitter chat about STEM education May 16th at 12:30PM-1:30PM EDT.
We know that STEAM instead of STEM is key. STEAM adds music and arts as core classes as well as helping STEM teachers bring these concepts into their classrooms; this means we will be reaching more students with a more whole approach to education.
Add Your Voice and call for STEM To be #BroaderMinded!
This is part of the larger broader minded campaign, an effort to focus on the whole child and articulate the importance of the arts in all students’ education.
It is surely time to contribute to efforts to assert a place for the arts among science, technology, engineering, and math. Please consider joining in the get STEAMed initiative to encourage the public, power brokers, and policy makers to expand from STEM to STEAM and consider the whole child and be a bit broader minded in their outlook on the world and what constitutes education.