In the March 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 Gerald Cadoree How did you learn about CAPE? I posted a profile on Boardlink at Chicago United. Amy Rasmussen, CAPE's Executive Director, found my profile and contacted me. Amy and several board members educated me on CAPE, what it is doing and where it is going. Why did you decide to become a CAPE board member? CAPE's mission and vision aligned closely with my own. I have worked with several CPS schools in the past and have a background in the arts so it was a natural fit. What do you hope to achieve at CAPE? A measurable, positive impact on the lives of those we serve. Through acting, I learned to be very flexible, so as the needs of the organization change I'll adapt how I serve it to meet those needs. The important thing is to make a difference. Do you have a personal connection to the arts? I have a degree in drama and studied classical singing. I studied at the Moscow Art Theater School in Russia for a semester in college and it developed me a lot as a person. I attribute a great deal of my success to what I learned about myself and others through the arts. Are you involved with other nonprofit organizations? I'm financially supportive of several organizations and am in discussions with a few about serving on their board.
	1. From Chicago to the World 2. Vote Early, Vote Often		3. Reaching Across the Border 4. Trees Bloom
	CAPE Veterans and Herbert School special education teachers Jesl Cruz, Jack Kono, teaching artist Robert Possehl and student artist Larry take pride in their participation in the 2010 International VSA Festival to be held in Washington, D.C. at the US Department of Education in June. The Festival will showcase 23 postcards created by students with disabilities through the Arte Postale program. Together, the artwork – from students from 12 countries and eight states – tell a very meaningful story about what students around the world value. Congratulations to Larry and the great Veteran Partnership team at Herbert! - - - - Celebrate CAPE, a friendraiser event organized by CAPE's board and staff, took place at Louis A. Agassiz Elementary School on February 18, 2010. In this interactive and fun evening, participants had the opportunity to mingle with other arts education supporters, learn more about the organization and participate in an art project led by teacher Akemi Taguchi and teaching artist Ellen Tristchler. Agassiz has been a CAPE school since 1992 and it is a great example of how arts integrated teaching and learning can transform a school into a dynamic and engaging community. Guests also participated in a "treasure hunt" designed by CAPE's Founding and Creative Director Arnold Aprill, in which they had to search for pieces of artwork displayed throughout the school's hallways. The teams that completed the hunt in the fastest time received student artwork as a reward. Treasure Hunt winners included (from left to right): Sehban Zaidi, Roger Weitz (Chicago Opera Theater), Avery Cranston. Dawnmarie Domingo (CAPE Board), Jorge Félix (CAPE Advisory Board), Margie Heffernan and Andrew Cretors (C. Cretors & Co.). - - - - Please join CAPE in welcoming new board member Gerald Cadoree, President of cadoree & company llc, a private equity firm focused on acquisitions of middle-market companies. Gerald was formerly a Healthcare Information Technology executive and served in a variety of roles including General Manager of GE Healthcare's Laboratory Information Systems division. He holds a BA in Drama from Stanford University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. For more on Gerald, see the Meet the Board feature at right. - - - - Help support MusicianCorps by voting in the Pepsi Refresh Challenge every day for the month of March. The top two organizations with the most votes will receive $250,000 towards their respective project. - - - - Check out CAPE's new mugs! A great way to support CAPE is to purchase products from 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 National Association of Latino Arts and Culture and the Ford Foundation have awarded CAPE and Habla a grant to launch an initiative that will foster exchanges of educators and teaching artists across countries. The goal of the grant is to serve communities and schools in Mexico and the United States by deepening and documenting an international artistic collaboration based in multilingual and arts integrated teaching. This February, 2010 CAPE Founding and Creative Director Arnold Aprill, teacher Mary Beth Werner and teaching artist William Estrada (who collaborate at Telpochalli School) visited Habla to participate in conversations with local educators and artists. In addition theysharedtheir work with the Mérida, Mexico community. This summer the Chicago team will return to Habla to teach in the Habla Summer Lab School, offer workshops to the community, and participate in the 2010 Habla Teacher Institute. An article about the collaboration between Mexican and U.S. teachers and artists was published in the Diario de Yucatán. - - - - In February, CAPE consultant Gigi Schroeder-Yu, Milliken University pre-service teachers, and CAPE Founding and Creative Director Arnold Aprill presented the workshop/demonstration lecture "Creativity in the 21st Century: Learning through the Arts and Integrated Curriculum" to a wide range of educators from central Illinois. The teachers were grateful to have time to think and share with each other across grades and geographies.
	Hawthorne Scholastic Academy has been a CAPE Veteran partner since the first years of CAPE. This year they have been busy analyzing trees. At the school's March Curriculum Fair, kindergarten teacher Wendee Schavocky and teaching artist Megan Williamson presented some images of the amazing work done by these young student artists. - - - - At Telpochcalli's after school SCALE dance program with Jazmin Corona and Maria Navas, students have been busy rehearsing a dance that will be featured at this year's Telpochcalli Benefit. Proceeds from the event, which will be held at the school on March 19 from 6 to 8 p.m., will benefit Telpochcalli's art programs. - - - - In early February, Dr. Larry Scripp of the New England Conservatory of Music administered the first in a series of portfolio conferences with Lee, Eberhart, and Healy Elementary schools. CAPE is testing this new assessment tool as another means of capturing the intersection between teacher and student learning. The development of this tool is part of the research for the three-year PAIR grant.

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