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Reframing Advocacy in Music Education
Free Guide for 2025/26
The Creative Educator shares an up-to-date guide to advocacy in Music Education in the U.K. Whether a rural, coastal, suburb or city school, you can pick up ideas for promoting music education within your setting. Inclusive of current campaigns, programmes and key organisations, review our Reframing Advocacy Guide to support students in your musical setting today!
Demos and Music Mark Panel 2025:
Music Mentoring
Did you know? Mentoring plays an integral role in the development of teacher professional identity through modelling and intergenerational relationships.
Hayes, N., & Pridham, B. (2019)
Fun fact: A whopping 97% of people with mentors say their mentors are valuable.
Mentorloop (last accessed 02.2025)
It’s great to connect electronically, and it’s even better to share in-person.
I offer one-to-one mentoring at an affordable rate. I create a safe space for you to share your successes, challenges and ideas for the practical learning environment, and building your department or classroom practice.
Get in touch, to let me know that you’re interested in one-to-one mentoring.
Upcoming Course: Reframing Advocacy for Music Education | The Secondary Music Teaching Series
Monday 29th September 2025
4:00 - 5:30 pm
Online
£22.50(+VAT); Free to Music Mark Members
Founder of The Creative Educator, Jen Hurst will lead the first of three sessions for Music Mark, as part of the Secondary Music Teaching series. During this online event, delegates will learn key insights on how to best advocate for music to the senior leadership of your secondary school. This session is framed on one of the three pledges that schools will agree to if they receive a Music Mark of Recognition from their music service: “Advocate for the importance of music education in the curriculum and creative life of the school.”
Dates of all sessions in the series:
Session 1: Monday 29th September 2025, 4:00 - 5:30 pm - Reframing Advocacy for Music Education. Session 2: Wednesday 4th February 2026, 5:00 6:30 pm - Actionable Implementation of Inspirational Inclusive Practice in the Music Room.
Session 3: Tuesday 9th June 2026, 5:00 - 6:30 pm - Building Partnerships: Broadening Provision through Community Music-Making and the Wider Sector.
Upcoming Course: Contemporary Curriculum Design - Building on the National Plan for Music Education
Tuesday 25th November 2025
4:30 - 6:30 pm
Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA.
£15; Free to young people aged 16 - 25, students and unwaged.
The Creative Educator, Jen Hurst will lead a session for Sound Connections exploring how to build inclusive, flexible and relevant music curricula rooted in national guidance and 21st-century practice. A session for music educators at all stages of their development and focusing on DIY Curriculum Design incorporating contemporary genres, Elements over Genre, and National Policy in Practice.
