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ALPHONSUS ACADEMY Alphonsus Academy and Center for the Arts is a Pre-K to 8 Catholic school that collaborates with CAPE to create innovative partnerships among practicing artists and classroom teachers in order to stimulate students' creative and critical thinking. Click on the units below to see documentation of this partnership: Arts and Learning in Pre-K Classrooms Arts Across the Kindergarten Curriculum Hearts, Bones, and Minds - 1st grade Picturing Knowledge - 2nd grade Flow, Electricity, and Chicago History - 3rd grade Every Picture Tells a Multi-Media Story - 6th, 7th, and 8th grade HABLA SUMMER INSTITUTE The Habla Teacher Institute is a boundary and discipline crossing experience for educators and artists. At the July 2009 Habla Teacher Institute Cabinets of Wonders: Museums of Memory (a collaboration between the Habla Center for Language and Culture and CAPE), artists and educators gathered from Mexico, the United States, Brazil, Argentina, and Italy to explore ways we can place creativity at the center of learning. Click to see documentation of the Summer Institute. WALT DISNEY MAGNET SCHOOL Walt Disney Magnet School is arranged into "Pods" – open teaching spaces that include several classrooms at the same grade level. The teachers in each Pod work together as a planning team, and every Pod works in a large, flexible, specially designed performance and exhibition space called the CAC (Cultural Arts Center) for two weeks each year, culminating in a multimedia extravanga integrating the fine and performing arts into academic work on literacy development and content knowledge across the curriculum, organized around a compelling theme. The presentations include dance, theater, video, music, visual art, and displays of academic content knowledge, orchestrated into a multi-sensory event attended by students, teachers, administrators, and families. During the 2009-2010 school year, the following themes were explored. Click on the links below to see documentation of the arts and academic work: The Life and Accomplishments of Walt Disney Pre-K – Animals All Around Kindergarten – Cycles 1st Grade – Natural Resources 2nd Grade – Energy ! 3rd Grade – Where in the Solar System is Disney Magic? 4th Grade – Animal Adaptation 5th Grade – Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic 5th Grade – Documenting Science 7th & 8th Grades – Youth Empowerment Seminar Here are links to units from the 2008-2009 school year: Pre-school – Children of the World Kindergarten – On the Go 1st Grade – Healthy Kids 2nd Grade – Route 66 3rd Grade – Going Green 4th Grade – siZeWise 5th & 6th Grades – Planet Earth 6th & 7th Grades – Natural Disasters 7th & 8th Grades – Past, Present, Future From June 15 – 19, 2009, teachers from Walt Disney Magnet School participated in a weeklong Arts and Literacy Institute to explore innovative strategies for teaching reading and writing through the arts. Inspired by the life of Frida Kahlo and their own histories and memories, they collaborated with artists and educators from CAPE (Morris Bowie, Robert Possehl, Arnold Aprill); the Habla center for arts and language learning in Merida, Mexico (Kurt Wootton); Project AIM at the Center for Community Arts Partnerships at Columbia College Chicago (Cynthia Weiss); the Disney faculty (Sarah Roodhouse); and the University of Illinois at Chicago (Catherine Main). Click to see the web site documenting the Summer Arts and Literacy Institute. The Walt Disney Magnet School Parents Advisory Council (PAC) engaged CAPE to provide parent/child workshops on the Arts and Literacy Development in May 2009. Families read the Sandra Cisneros short story “Eleven” (about a little girl grappling with growing up) from her collection Woman Hollering Creek. The families interpreted the story through dance, theater, video, and visual art with artists Mirtes Zwierzynski, Zineb Chraibi, Ashley Winston, Jeff Harms, and Morris Bowie. The families created a video about what it feels like to not feel your age. Students performed their parents’ stories, and parents performed their children’s stories. Click below to see a short video of their work. Please enable javascript BRONZEVILLE HIGH SCHOOL Bronzeville High School is an alternative high school that allows students to complete high school in a small, creative, safe environment. Bronzeville is working towards becoming a fully arts-integrated school through their partnership with CAPE and other arts organizations such as the School of the Arts Institute of Chicago, the Southside Community Arts Center, MPAACT Theater, and the Community TV Network. Bronzeville is a campus of Youth Connections Charter School, and is part of the Alternative Schools Network. Click on the two links below to see documentation of arts integrated units developed with CAPE: Our America Understanding Literature through Video CHICAGO OPERA THEATER (COT) Chicago Opera Theater's education program Opera for All reaches out to students in four Chicago Public Schools to teach the many facets of opera. Team teaching artists work with classes once a week for 25 weeks throughout the school year. Students learn about opera and how it connects to their everyday lives, applying this knowledge to the stage. Each year, they study an opera from COT's season, write their own versions of the opera, and perform their interpretations. Click on the name of a school to see documentation of COT's Opera for All program in Chicago public schools during the 2008-2009 school year. DeWitt Clinton School McKinley Park Elementary School Frank W. Reilly Elementary School Alexander Von Humboldt School |
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HAWTHORNE ELEMENTARY SCHOLASTIC ACADEMY UNDERSTANDING BY DESIGN PROJECT Hawthorne Elementary Scholastic Academy partners with Lookingglass Theatre Company and CAPE to co-create and document high quality arts integrated instruction in all classrooms, with the express intention of deepening and broadening learning, and of developing critical and creative thinking among all students. Each grade’s unit culminates in a curriculum showcase for parents and other students. The school organizes and continually improves teaching and learning through the "Understanding by Design" framework. Click on the grade or project title below to see documentation from the 2009-2010 school year. K: Trees 1st: Habitats 2nd: Balance and Motion 3rd: Biography 4th: Bud, Not Buddy 5th: Cultural Diffusion 7th: What Have You Decided to Hold on to? INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE PROGRAM CAPE was privileged to work with six Chicago public schools in 2007 - 2008 and five Chicago public schools in 2008 - 2009 in the International Baccalaureate (IB) program. IB’s focus on inquiry based, student-centered learning that addresses broad global themes was a great match for CAPE methodology. Click on the name of a school to see documentation of some of this CAPE/IB partnership work. Amundsen High School William J. Bogan Computer Technology High School Andrew Carnegie Elementary School Henry R. Clissold Elementary School Frazier International Hyde Park Academy High School: Our Voice Hyde Park Academy High School: Sharing Our Humanity through Video Kate Starr Kellogg Elementary: A Visual and Symbolic Representation of the Silk Route James B. McPherson Elementary School Josephine C. Locke Elementary School John L. Marsh Elementary School NATIONAL-LOUIS UNIVERSITY Pre-service teachers at National-Louis University worked together in the class “Methods of Art Education”, taught by CAPE staffers, teachers and artists, to develop innovative, inquiry based, arts integrated units. Click on the links below to see the promising work of these future teachers. Do You Hear What I Hear? Coming to America: A Lesson on Immigration H2O in the Know All Wrapped Up Discovering Diversity in Everday Life through Photography Exploring the Solar System: Touring the Milky Way Pirates: Fantasy vs. Reality Shakespeare vs. the Modern Era What is Art? HERE WE ARE – WE ARE HERE Students, parents, teachers, neighbors, and the staff of Christopher House Logan Square designed and installed this community artwork with the generous support of LISC/Chicago New Communities Program. In a collaboration between Christopher House and the Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (CAPE), project coordinator Colleen Douglas and artists Juan Carlos Perez, Mirtes Zwierzynski, and Phil Schuster joined the community in representing the symbols, stories, and cultures of Logan Square Watch the slide show below and listen as participants reflect on the project. Please enable javascript
HUMBOLDT PARK BUILDING COMMUNITY THROUGH THE ARTS SCHOOL ENGAGEMENT INITIATIVE As part of a city-wide program focused on community development through the arts, organization in Humboldt Park created the School Engagement Initiative (SEI), in which arts integration becomes a methodology for investigating the challenging issues of community development in neighborhoods subject to gentrification. SEI is co-managed by the Institute of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture and CAPE. Click on the name of a school to see documentation of some of their work from the 2007-2008 school year. El Cuarto Ano High School James Russell Lowell Elementary School Harriet Beecher Stowe Fine and Performing Arts Academy Click the following to link to the Building Community through the Arts web site. CHICAGO SCHOOLS QUILT PROJECT Quilting as curriculum. This initiative showcased curriculum content in all disciplines through the medium of traditional and contemporary classroom quilts. It was a collaboration among the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, the Art Institute of Chicago, and CAPE. Click the following to learn more about this project. Chicago Schools Quilts will open in a separate browser window. THE GREAT MIGRATION PROJECT A collaboration between CAPE and the Mississippi Arts Commission, in which teachers, artists and students exchanged visits and knowledge between Chicago and Mississippi to investigate the Great Migration. Click the following to learn more about this project. The Great Migration will open in a separate browser window. |
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CHICAGO ARTS EDUCATORS FORUM On April 10, 2009, the Chicago Arts Educators Forum (CAEF), a new network of arts educators based in cultural organizations, convened a highly successful, well-attended, daylong symposium on creating quality arts education partnerships, hosted by Adventure Stage at the Vittum Theater and the Auditorium Theatre at Roosevelt University, with support from the Polk Bros. Foundation. CAPE is a member of the steering committee of this network. Click to see documentation of this "Partnerships in Action" convening. CAPE helped plan and present the second networking forum of CAEF, a lively symposium convened on October 23, 2009, in collaboration with Columbia College Chicago, entitled A**ess This: Asking Questions that Deepen Practice. Presenters included arts education researcher Dennie Palmer Wolf and the Chicago-based dance troupe Deeply Rooted. Participants critiqued each otherŐs assessment tools, and documented their own learning about evaluation and assessment. Click to see a detailed record of A**ess This. CAEF's third convocation in April 2010 explored some of Chicago's arts education Hot Topics. For extensive documentation of the forum, please click C³: Community, Creativity & Collaboration. Click for documentation of workshops CAEF organized in May and June 2010 on Writing for Publication for its members. THE TERRA AMERICAN ART PROJECT PROGRAM In 2007-2008, CAPE continued and expanded its 2006-2007 program of professional development funded by the Terra Foundation for American. In 2006-2007, CAPE served Magnet Cluster Lead Teachers (MCLTs) from 10 Fine and Performing Arts Magnet Cluster (FPAMCP) Schools. In 2007-2008, this expanded to 16 FPAMCP schools. As part of the Magnet Cluster Program, MCLTs have been participating in professional development provided by CAPE and the Magnet Cluster Initiative of Chicago Public Schools. This professional development focuses on three broad goals: 1) creating, implementing and documenting engaging arts curriculum in arts classes and in collaboration with classes in other subjects, 2) improving the educational communities at their schools through the arts and 3) serving as educational leaders in their schools by providing professional development for fellow faculty members in the arts. The American art project has supported these goals and has been successful because teachers who participated were able to immediately build on the knowledge developed in this program and place it within the framework of their broader professional development goals. In 2007-2008 The Terra American Art Project consisted of professional development for visual art teachers at local, progressive arts spaces, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Chicago History Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, and the Hyde Park Art Center. These sessions inspired teaching strategies that helped MCLTs link the ideas and aesthetic processes of American art and artists to other curricular areas. In 2007-2008 The Terra American Art Project consisted of professional development for visual art teachers at local, progressive arts spaces, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Chicago History Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, and the Hyde Park Art Center. These sessions inspired teaching strategies that helped MCLTs link the ideas and aesthetic processes of American art and artists to other curricular areas. Participating teachers were encouraged to document their American Art units on the internet. Avalon Park Elementary School – Kowa Harnischfeger, Art Teacher Carpenter Elementary School – Lisa Macri, Art Teacher Dewey Elementary School – Nicole Xenakis, Art Teacher Edwards Elementary School – Mackinnon Bustos, Art Teacher Franklin Fine Arts – Margaret Koreman, Art Teacher Fort Dearborn Elementary School – Kimberly Moore, Art Teacher Fulton Elementary – Suzanne Downs-Breo, Art Teacher Gladstone Elementary School – Jennifer Bauman, Art Teacher Goldblatt Elementary School – Bob Mishlove, Art Teacher Hamilton Elementary School – Esther Pullman, Art Teacher Healy Elementary School – Gerald Gomez, Art Teacher Hearst Elementary School – Robyn Esposito, Art Teacher Marconi Elementary School – Ingrid Swenson, Art Teacher Pirie Elementary School – Monica Skylas, Art Teacher Swift Elementary School – John Dell, Art Teacher Harold Washington Elementary School – Donnell Radar, Art Teacher DIGITAL PLAYGROUND CHICAGO STYLE PROJECT A collaboration between CAPE and the Duncan YMCA Chernin Center for the Arts, using a model developed by musician Michael Cain in which New York based musicians and local artists collaborated with young people, using a wide range of technologies to compose and produce a CD of new music. In this project, 4th through 8th grade Chicago public school students composed, produced, performed and engineered hundreds of original recording projects and several videos. Click the following to learn more about this project. Digital Playground Chicago Style will open in a separate browser window. |
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