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The Art of Advocacy

By Leah Krueger, posted on Jan 10, 2022

Think about a time you had to stick up for a friend. Maybe there was a miscommunication, and your friend didn’t know what to say or what to do. You had to step in and be your friend’s voice. That’s what being an advocate is! This was how I started the class conversation about art advocacy. I asked my third- to fifth-grade students if they had ever heard the word “advocate” before and if they knew what it meant. It was an unfamiliar word for them, and we spent some time breaking down the meaning together.

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