In the January-February 2010 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 Mel Smith, President Paula S. Carlin      Vice President P. Loreen Mershimer      Treasurer Jeffrey A. Byrnes, Secretary Richard M. Assmus Frank Baiocchi Christine K. Buck Gerald Cadoree Phillip J. Cote Dawnmarie Domingo Carol P. Eastin Sean D. Egan, Ph.D. Nancy Jones Emrich Stephen Flisk Kurt Johnson Kylie M. Sorden Elizabeth Swanson Jan Ellen Woelffer 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. For the third consecutive year Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education has received a 4-star rating from Charity Navigator, America's largest independent evaluator of charities. Follow this link to donate to CAPE. Meet the Board Jeffrey A. Byrnes What is your occupation? I work at UBS Financial Services, Inc. in the Private Wealth Management group. Our team helps tailor individual financial solutions to the needs of high net worth individuals. How long have you been a CAPE board member? I have been a member of the CAPE board for almost 3 years. Previously I served as a CAPE volunteer. How did you get connected with CAPE for the first time? I found CAPE on a volunteer match website. Since I was lucky enough to have access to great educational and arts resources growing up, I was looking for an organization that helped promote these causes to those less privileged. What do you like about the organization? I immediately liked what I learned about CAPE because the organization affects both policy and practice. Many organizations have a hand in one or the other but CAPE manages to succeed at both. The CAPE staff is creative, intellectually curious, engaging and business savvy – a truly rare combination of talents. Where would you like to see CAPE in the future? I hope over the next few years CAPE continues to receive the recognition and funding that will allow it to expand its depth and reach in arts integration and education on a local, national, and international scale.
	1. Arts Integration @ Hawthorne 2. Innovation Innovators		3. BCCLA Researched 4. False Dichotomy
	CAPE, Hawthorne Elementary Scholastic Academy, and Lookingglass Theatre have begun a new initiative to document the arts integrated units developed at every grade in the school, using a curricular framework known as Understanding by Design. By deeply and systematically documenting their work, the Hawthorne teachers will be able to capture student learning as it is happening, and to design teaching and curriculum to best address student's learning needs. On January 29, 2010, Wendy Schavocky from Hawthorne and Arnold Aprill from CAPE kicked off the initiative by facilitating a discussion with the whole school faculty about the power of documentation in improving teaching and learning. - - - - On January 30, 2010,the CAPE Program Committee and Program Staff held conversations exploring new territory at the IIT Institute of Design. This event was not so much a program brainstorm, nor a strategic planning via programming, but rather an opportunity to encounter other ideas and questions from other perspectives, and thus raise further questions and ideas for us here at CAPE. Conceived and actualized by the Program Committee and Program Staff, the focal points of the conversations were around what was brought to us by a stimulating group of six presenters: Rafael Rosa, Director of Education, Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum; Dave McGaw, Strategy Lead at Gravity Tank; Jim Duignan, Stockyard Institute & Associate Professor, Visual Arts & Secondary Education, DePaul University; Rose Marshack, Assistant Professor of Music and Arts Technology at Illinois State University; Hugh Musick, Associate Dean, Illinois Institute of Technology/Institute of Design; Hamza Walker, Education Director, Renaissance Society. Inspired by these presenters and the ensuing discussions, the CAPE Program Committee and Program Staff plan to bring together more view points and questions in future gatherings. Our thanks to the presenters who joined us. - - - - Another great way to support CAPE is to purchase note cards, a journal, mouse pad or calendar, all showcasing CAPE student artwork. They are available at CAPE's on-line Gift Shop. They make wonderful gifts that will show your support for improving education through art in Chicago's Public Schools.
	The Journal for Learning through the Arts sponsored by the Center for Learning through the Arts and Technology at the University of California at Irvine, published an article by CAPE researcher Gail Burnaford, Ph.D., on the results of the CAPE and Chicago Public Schools "Building Curriculum Community & Leadership through the Arts" project (2005 to 2008). - - - - CAPE Founding and Creative Director Arnold Aprill proposes some solutions for healing the false dichotomy between "arts integrated teaching and learning" and "art for arts sake" in this article published by the Teaching Artist Journal, featuring photographs of artworks from CAPE classrooms.
	Herbert School was the proud host of the second Veteran Partnershipscross-site meeting. This year teams are focusing on further explorations of the creativity indicators. In groups, they mapped the legibility of the creativity indicators by looking through last years' documentation templates. The overall question was "How do the indicators relate to one another in these units?"  They also made art installations throughout the school, exploring an object in relation to another object, and exploring the relationship of objects in a space. - - - - Design Seminar schools finished off their final cross-site meeting with a sense of urgency to begin their collaborations. New collaborators to CAPE, the teams have proposed promising projects that will be unveiled this spring. Some projects include an investigation of variations in the Arabic language through music; creating a new culture through exploring the diversity of a school; understanding migration and displacement through exploring documentary video; and exploring fiction in a class entitled "Movement in Culture: China". - - - - SCALE after school program partners held their second professional development workshop at Williams Elementary this January. Led by teacher Marina Lopez and artist Jessica Hudson, the crew analyzed artifacts from their classrooms to consider other ways of describing their projects. Partners created short performance pieces depicting moments in their program that complimented their data collection. - - - - At Bethune School, an after school initiative funded by the CPS Office of Extended Learning Opportunities, dancer Renay Aumiller and visual artist Robert Possehl, along with teacher Angelica, are exploring what drawing might had in common with dance. Once a week, their classes collaborate in creating variations on line, form and shape in space, and in a flat plain. - - - - CAPE artists Jessi Walsh and Robert Possehl have completed exceptional projects at Alphonsus Academy and Center for the Arts, working with  1st grade teachers Ms. Linn and Ms. Tabler, with the support of teaching assistants "Coach" Hicks and Lori Deighan, and 6th, 7th, and 8th grade teachers Katie Key and Chris Petersen. Click the photo below to watch a video of what 1st graders learned about the human body. Click on the links below to see documentation of these partnerships: Hearts, Bones, and Minds - 1st grade Every Picture Tells a Multi-Media Story - 6th, 7th, and 8th grade - - - - CAPE teaching artists Sonja Henderson, Andrea Slavik, Nick Jaffe, Ashley Winston, Robert Possehl, and Morris Bowie are partnering with Chicago Opera Theater (COT) teaching artists to create student opera productions of Giasone (the story of Jason and the Argonauts). The Chicago Public Schools involved in this project are: Von Humboldt, McKinley Park, Lionel Hampton, Reilly, and Clinton. The production will feature imaginative staging, original music, video projections, wigs, harpy wings, and a fire breathing bull – all to honor opera as a multimedia art form. Pictured below are CAPE Founding and Creative Director Arnold Aprill, COT General Director Brian Dickie, CAPE Teaching Artist Morris Bowie, and COT General Manager Roger Weitz, celebrating at the “Opera Underground” benefit at the Faith and Whiskey music venue, organized by COT Education Committee member Alan Marshall.

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