The CFO's Music Consultant
Jeremy L. Earnhart, Ed.D.
Helping organizations improve staffing efficiency, strengthen student outcomes, and expand opportunity through strategic arts education leadership.
Recent Leadership Insights
An ongoing multimedia retrospective documenting the twentieth anniversary of L.D. Bell High School's 2006 production, "The Remaining." Through archival materials, interviews, and personal reflections, the project explores what today's educational leaders can learn from one community's long-term investment in children.
Featured Research
The flagship report behind
School Music Consulting.
Reframing music education as a strategic educational and financial investment. Discover how music participation influences staffing, scheduling, enrollment, and school finance.
The Cost of Not Playing: How Music Participation Shapes the Financial Health of a School District
Music education is not an elective expense.
Music education is strategic infrastructure.
Indiana State Board of Education • September 2024
Public Comment on Diploma Redesign
"Fine arts is workforce development. Workforce development is fine arts."
Indiana State Board of Education (2024) Why Music Education Is Strategic Infrastructure
In under two minutes, learn why arts education belongs at the center of workforce development and diploma redesign.
Every 100 students in music ≈ $225,000 in annual staffing value.
Supporting Analysis
From Analysis to Action
Turning research into results for the campus and district.
Images used by the Arlington ISD Superintendent of Schools demonstrating the programmatic impact for students of the 2014 Bond Program.
Strategic investment in access drove sustained enrollment growth. School-owned instruments and required sixth-grade music increased secondary fine arts participation across Irving ISD by 40%, with minimal staffing implications.
Arlington ISD Board Presentation (2015)
Fine Arts: The Why, the Mission, and the Data
Summer Symposium Clinic
Improving Performance Through Design, Coordination, and Instruction
Leadership in Performance
Innovative Fine Arts District Programming Concepts and Soulutions
Selected Peer-Reviewed and Professional Publications
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