In the January-February 2008 CAPE Communiqué:				CAPE's Mission CAPE advances the arts as a vital strategy for improving teaching and learning by increasing students' capacity for academic success, critical thinking and creativity. CAPE's Vision CAPE works toward a future in which: • students are valued as creators of culture in our society; • teachers, artists and students work collaboratively to develop and share innovative approaches to teaching and learning in and through the arts in our public schools; • teachers, artists, school administrators and parents recognize the arts as a key element in transforming schools into vibrant, creative and successful learning communities; • professional colleagues and partners regularly communicate and share their practices and research in order to continually improve and evolve the field of arts in education; and • policy makers, business leaders and all citizens value the arts in education as essential to a just and equal society, a thriving economy and an inclusive democratic culture. Board of Directors Nancy Jones Emrich, Pres. Phil Cote, Vice President Paula S. Carlin, Treasurer Jan Woelffer, Secretary Richard M. Assmus Christine K. Buck Jeffrey A. Byrnes Dawnmarie Domingo Sean D. Egan, Ph.D. Stephen Flisk P. Loreen Mershimer Toni Riccardi Mel Smith Phil Thomas Bill Tuggle Donate to CAPE With your financial support, CAPE can bring its extraordinary teaching and learning philosophies and methods to educators and children throughout Chicago. Your gift will enable CAPE to continue to be an effective advocate for positive change in Chicago's public schools. Follow this link to donate to CAPE.
	1. Societal Learning 2. Toast to CAPE 08 3. Fashion Wrap-Up		4. CAPE Conferees 5. Flight Re-Flight 6. Teaching Art Teachers
	In 2003, CAPE and CAPE's Founding and Creative Director Arnold Aprill were honored with a Leadership for a Changing World Award, sponsored by the Ford Foundation and administered by the Advocacy Institute. Awardees gathered regularly and participated in collaborative inquiry on the meaning and nature of social justice leadership, following a practice very similar to CAPE's action research methodology. Arnold and fellow awardee Richard Townsell, working with editors Sandra Hayes and  Lyle Yorks, began co-writing an article on the arts as a tool for community development planning, which has just been released in the new publication Arts and Societal Learning: Transforming Communities Socially, Politically, and Culturally, published by Josey-Bass. - - - - Armold, along with five other Ford Foundation Leaders for a Changing World awardees, also engaged in a series of cooperative-inquiry groups to investigate what constitutes effective social justice leadership.		Their findings included developing an analytical framework on leadership, which they dubbed a "tapestry" because of the interwoven and interdependent nature of the elements and actions of effective leadership. The result of their inquiry has been included as a chapter in the newly published textbook The SAGE Handbook of Action Research: Participatory Inquiry and Practice, Second Edition. This book has been called "an essential resource for scholars and professionals engaged in social and political inquiry, organizational research and education."
	Reserve April 10, 2008 on your calendar for the 3rd Annual Toast to CAPE. Help support CAPE while you enjoy hors d'oeuvres and wine amid the beautiful KN Gallery space on the 25th floor of the John Hancock Building. Bid on contemporary artwork produced by CAPE artists, teachers and students (CAPE Communiqué readers will get a link in early March to an on-line preview of the pieces up for auction). Hope you can attend!
	photo by Fotoninja.net		FASHION FOR THE ARTS, the fundraiser staged on Dec. 16, 2007 by Maddie Bosack and Andra Lee of Columbia College, netted close to $1,500 in donations for CAPE. For a full review of this fashion gala, see Splash Magazine's Chicago Feature of the Week.
	Executive Director Amy Rasmussen attended the Arts Education Partnership meeting in Anaheim, California in January.  Amy participated in a panel discussion on the Music in Education National Consortium along with colleagues Larry Scripp of the New England Conservatory, David Dik of the Metropolitan Opera Guild, John Cecchini of the Arts Education in Maryland Schools Alliance, Principal Marsha Guerrero of Morrison Elementary School, and Denise Grande of the Music Center of Los Angeles.  The meeting was held in conjunction with the National Association of Music Merchandisers Trade Show attended by 90,000 music industry professionals.  While visiting the show and seeing all of the great new guitars and music gear, she had a chance to meet several of her favorite childhood friends, Elmo and Cookie Monster! - - - - While cold January winds howled through the windy city, CAPE's Founding and Creative Director Arnold Aprill was privileged to participate in a meeting in Mérida, Mexico to investigate the role of the arts in learning across languages. The meeting was convened by a new initiative called Habla: El Centro de Lengua y Cultura, which brought together a small group of artists and educators from Columbia College, Florida Atlantic University, CAPE and Habla to imagine the possibilities for arts integrated English and Spanish immersion and exchange programs for learners of all ages. The gathering included site visits to area schools, in towns where the workshops of living artists have grown up within the shadow of ancient Mayan pyramids. Arnold reported, “Our hosts in the Yucatan were incredibly warm and gracious, treating us to wonderful combinations of food and drink that blasted to smithereens all my preconceptions about Mexican cuisine; but it was the intellectual ferment of this gathering, the heady combination of inquiry and insight, that was truly intoxicating.”
	SCALE teaching artist Jessica Hudson and teacher LaSonda Wiggins of WIlliams Elementary School presented their Flight project at the 2008 No Child Left Behind Conference in Chicago. Stemming from Jessica's own artistic inquiry, students, teachers and teaching artists collaboratively investigated the meaning of flight and created a performance piece to share their interpretations. The students made costumes and props, learned dance and drumming, and held a public performance of Flight on the steps of the Cultural Center this past summer. - - - - BCCLA, CAPE's partnership with the Fine and Performing Arts Magnet Cluster Program at CPS, has had a full month. Teachers from all 59 elementary schools came together for a series of meetings and shared work on their documentation panels. Teachers have been working with the concept of process documentation over the course of the past three years, and this meeting showcased the arts and literacy integrated units that they completed in the fall. Both CAPE and FPAMCP staff were very impressed by the growth that many teachers have made both in the quality of their curriculum and in the strength of their documentation. In addition, FPAMCP and CAPE convened principals from all 59 schools to discuss how to incorporate the arts into their school improvement plans. In February, BCCLA teachers will come together for workshops on how to select external arts partners that are a good fit with their schools. - - - - The Terra Project got off to a great start on January 26. Betsy Kennedy, curator of the Terra Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago, led teachers through the Terra Collection and framed their tour with the Big Idea of Inheritance, which they are working on this entire school year through the Fine Art Magnet Cluster. Jerry Stefl, of the School of the Art Institute, then led them through a workshop in which they planned how they will use American art and American artists in their classrooms this spring. This project will continue with workshops at the Chicago History Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Photography in February. Coordinated by CAPE, the project is funded by the Terra Foundation for American Art, and involves visual art teachers from 20 Fine and Performing Arts Magnet Cluster Schools.

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