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Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (CAPE)
203 N. Wabash, Suite 1720, Chicago, Illinois 60601-2417
312/870-6140 • fax 312/870-6147 •

Building Curriculum, Community, and Leadership Through the Arts: Professional Development Workshops 2005-2006

• Curriculum Workshops
• Community Workshops
• Leadership Workshops

  Curriculum Workshops All MCLTs received 5 hours of professional development on Curriculum planning and development in a Fine and Performing Arts Magnet Cluster School. In these sessions, we considered the following questions: What are the categories for a model framework? What would be evidence of change within the schools‘ curricula? What are some ways to document these successes? What are the criteria for a provocative curriculum? Why would you work with provocative themes? We also worked with the Arts Integration Checklist. This instrument helps teachers to assess if arts integration is working in their schools by defining the characteristics of an arts-integrated learning environment. Finally, each MCLT reflected on the Three-Year Goals of the program. Based on these goals, MCLTs worked to develop their curriculum goals for the year, and began to look ahead to their overarching goals for the BCCLA project. Over the course of the next three years, project coordinators will work with MCLTs to implement strategies to achieve the goals defined during these sessions.

  Community Workshops During the community workshops, MCLTs worked with CAPE, FPAMCP and each other on issues surrounding how to improve community within their schools. Several guest principals and teachers addressed the group on how community has been built within their communities. As a whole, we considered the following questions: What is your definition of community? What is community as it is related to schools? What kind of leadership builds community? What do you need to feel like part of a community? Why is/isn‘t community important to schools? What is the value of community to teachers? What is the value of community for students? What is the value of the school being connected to parents What activities, ideas, support is building community in your schools? MCLTs then reflected, once again, on the Three-Year Goals of the BCCLA project. Teachers discussed what aspects of these goals they found exciting, what they had questions about, and what might need to be added or changed. Finally, MCLTs chose their community goals for the year, which will form the basis for their work with the project coordinators over the next three years. Leadership Workshops The BCCLA Leadership Workshops addressed many of the major issues that MCLTs face as leaders within their schools, such as: scheduling lesson planning forming arts committees creating long-range professional development within the school Several guest speakers, including a panel of experts, focused on common leadership issues and MCLTs subsequently broke out into smaller groups to problem-solve around this subject. Finally, teachers selected their leadership goals for the year, based on the Three-Year Goals of the BCCLA project.   © 2006 Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (CAPE) 203 N. Wabash, Suite 1720, Chicago, Illinois 60601-2417 312/870-6140 • fax 312/870-6147 • • www.capeweb.org   If you have come to this page from a search engine, here is a link to CAPE's Home page.