In the April 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 Phil Cote What is your occupation? Retired insurance broker. How long have you been a CAPE board member? Four years. How did you get connected with CAPE for the first time? A customer and CAPE Board member asked me what I was doing after retirement. One thing led to another – then to CAPE. What do you like about the organization? Goals stated in CAPE's mission statement say it best: seeing the arts in the classroom "…as a vital strategy for improving teaching and learning by increasing students' capacity for academic success, critical thinking and creativity." Where would you like to see CAPE in the future? CAPE's goals shold be infused into every elementary and high school classroom in Chicago, in Illinois and in the nation. My hope is that CAPE's work becomes more widely known by leaders in the entire community including parents, business, media, educational and financial supporters.
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	At the April 9, 2010 meeting of Arts Education Partnership (AEP) in Washington, D.C., U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan spoke to the gathering about the importance of the arts in 21st century education, and held up CAPE as a model of exemplary programming: "When I took over as CEO of the Chicago Public Schools in 2001, a survey by the Chicago Community Trust showed that one in seven elementary schools in the city did not provide a single class of arts instruction a week. Fifteen elementary schools, with 7,300 children, provided no arts instruction at all. Through CAPE, the Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education, we brought local artists and teachers into the schools to partner up on integrating arts curriculum with academic subjects. And follow-up studies showed that students at the CAPE schools performed better on standardized assessment than students who attended schools that did not integrate arts and academics." Click to read his entire speech, The Well-Rounded Curriculum. - - - - These are just two of the over 40 artworks available at silent auction during this year's Toast to CAPE fundraising gala. At left is a painting by teaching artist Juan-Carlos Perez, and at right is a mixed-media work by teaching artist Phil Cotton. Toast to CAPE, the annual fundraiser and celebration of CAPE's work in Chicago Public Schools, will be held at the new and luxurious Hotel Palomar Chicago on May 6, 2010. Don't miss out on what looks to be an enchanting evening featuring a silent auction of CAPE student, teaching artist and staff artwork. RSVPs due April 30, so don't delay. Click Toast to CAPE for detailed information, to reserve your spot via PayPal, and to preview artwork. One of the exclusive items in the Toast to CAPE auction is a lunch and private tour of the Union League Club of Chicago's Art Collection with Curator Elizabeth Whiting. Last year, David Flatley (Executive Director of the Center for Community Arts Partnerships at Columbia College Chicago) successfully bid on this item, and was treated to a fabulous lunch and personal tour of the club, hosted by Steven Flisk, CAPE Board Member and Union League Club Member. Pictured in this photo at the Union League Club are Steven Flisk, David and Catherine Flatley, David Egeland, Elizabeth Whiting and Arnold Aprill. - - - - The Chicago Arts Educator Forum (CAEF) is a network of arts educators that work together to share knowledge and deepen practice. CAPE is one of many participant organizations that co-design and implement CAEF conferences and professional development workshops, addressing issues of interest to members in the network. On April 2, 2010, at a Forum entitled C3 – Community, Creativity, and Collaboration convened at Roosevelt University, the network investigated the issues of the arts and violence prevention, the arts and 21st century work skills development, and new strategies for building community between outside arts providers and in-school arts specialists.
	Each topic was explored through presentations, discussions, and hands-on workshops. CAPE staffer Mark Diaz and multi-media artist Mike Bancroft from Coop Image led participants in the mixing of high tech and low tech media to create installations that embodied 21st century work skills. Click to see extensive documentation of this forum.
	- - - - On March 23, 2010, CAPE  presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art on documentation methodologies to the lead teachers of the Technology Magnet Cluster of Chicago Public Schools, working with the Cluster's coordinator Jason Pasatta. The teachers demonstrated an extraordinary sophistication in thinking about the value and potential of process documentation. The participants were guided in the use of the on-line documentation template developed by CAPE, Silver Image Creative Inc., and the Chicago Public Schools' Office of Academic Enhancement.
	The AEP meeting in Washington, D.C. was also the occasion for bringing together faculty members of the July 2010 Summer Teacher Institute “Into the Labyrinth”: Arnold Aprill of CAPE; Kurt Wootton and María del Mar Pátron-Vazquez of Habla: The Center for Language and Culture; and Cynthia Weiss of Project AIM at the Center for Community Arts Partnerships, Columbia College Chicago. - - - - Kinzie Elementary School Principal and CAPE Board Member Dr. Sean Egan and CAPE Program Associate Hilesh Patel presented at the Illinois State Board of Education 21st Century Conference April 13 in Oak Lawn. The conference was for recipients of 21st Century Community Learning Centers grants. Dr. Egan and Patel delivered a talk on principal partnerships and the SCALE after-school program.
	CAPE's annual showcase and celebration of student work done through the Veteran Partnerships will be held May 24-28, 2010 at the Insitute of Design at IIT. CAPE Convergence 2010 will feature a reception and performances on May 26, with a Creativity Forum on May 27. Click for additional information on Convergence 2010. - - - - Teaching artist Saya Hillman and Andrea Ellsworth taught third and fourth graders in the Marconi Elementary Community Academy SCALE after-school program a dance routine from Saya's Dance Experiment project. The kids also learned camera skills and editing, and created their own dance video. Their video was shown on April 9, 2010 at Pegasus Players Theater in Truman College as part of the Dance Experiment showcase. Dianna, Tijuan, Brianna, Frances, Tee and Dakota received huge applause for their work. You can check out a story about them posted by Sandra Jindra of WBEZ on the Inspire Me Chicago web site. - - - - El Cuarto Año High School (ECA), located at Association House in Humboldt Park, hosted their annual student art fair on Thursday April 22. ECA Students and art teacher Jonathan Hadnott were present to discuss work. Students showcased work made in their in-school art class and in the CAPE SCALE after-school program with Hadnott and teaching artist Daniel Kerr-Hobart.

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