After School Funding Action Alert
CAPE and many other after-school program providers across Illinois are fighting to save its after-school programs. Due to an error in budgeting at the Illinois State Board of Education,...
CAPE’s unique approach to engaging students, inspiring teachers, and demonstrating impact relies on three strategies: Partnerships, Arts Integration, and Research.
To bring traditional subjects to life through the arts, we pair professional teaching artists with Chicago Public Schools teachers for long-term classroom partnerships and training.
To spark students’ passion for learning, we weave visual and digital art, music, theater, and dance into traditional subjects like science, math, history, and language arts.
CAPE works with external researchers to determine the impact of our programs on students, teachers, and artists. This helps us refine our own work and that of our teaching teams and contribute new knowledge to the field.
Research has shown that CAPE’s programs improve students’ critical thinking, creative problem solving, and self confidence, and leads to higher achievement in the classroom and on standardized tests.
After School Funding Action Alert
CAPE and many other after-school program providers across Illinois are fighting to save its after-school programs. Due to an error in budgeting at the Illinois State Board of Education,...
Young Audiences National Conference 2024
Earlier this month CAPE hosted the Young Audiences National Conference, which brought to Chicago over 200 teaching artists and arts administrators from across the Young Audiences national network. CAPE...
CAPE Dialogue: What is a Community?
You are invited to join us for CAPE Dialogue: What is a Community? on Thursday, March 7, 2024 from 5:30 to 7 PM at CAPE, 1010 W 35th Street,...
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