Portfolio Design Project

To improve student performance in the visual arts, music and literacy, the Portfolio Design Project is piloting a collaborative process for creating portfolios of individual students’ work in standards-based, arts-integrated curricula. Professional development, artist residencies and collaboration are features of the project, with the development of individual student portfolios through collaboratively designed, inquiry based arts integrated instruction at the center. This project is particularly important at this time – the demand for data-driven decision making in Chicago Public Schools is increasing. This project is piloting a solution:  online digital portfolios of student work in the visual arts, music and literacy that will be systemically analyzed and the results of which included in composite measures of student learning. The portfolios, which will include still images, sound, video, and text, will be organized around a common structure, so they can be analyzed and summarized across classrooms and schools. Furthermore, these results will be used by principals and district administrators in school planning and decision making processes.

The project is funded by the US Department of Education’s Arts Education Model Development and Dissemination Grant Program.

 

The Portfolio Design program will explore the growth of creativity and thought throughout the school yea

 

 

CAPE's newest program will include personal portfolios through which students can collect, compare and share their work.