CAPE recently hosted had its second PPD (Pandemic Professional Development) for teachers and teaching artists in our CAPE After School program. We began with an excellent presentation by Shenequa [...]
On May 10, 2018, we will feature the work of our ATLAS teachers and their students in an exhibition, titled INTERSECTIONS: Arts and Technology. Please join us there, and read on for more [...]
“Arts Testing? Check Check? 123?” is Joseph Spilberg’s response to The Hechinger Report’s “Can Testing Save Art Education?” Inside the bubble of the arts education field there is an [...]
Comadres en el Arte, an exhibition of art and community building by mothers from CPS schools As a part of CAPE’s program Supporting Communities in Arts Learning Environments (SCALE), mothers from [...]
CAPE Classrooms is our series highlighting great work from our programs across Chicago. This year, as part of our Supporting Communities through Arts Learning Environments (SCALE) program, a [...]
CAPE staff members recently attended the American Education Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting here in Chicago, and among the hundreds of break out sessions, we sat in on one where [...]
Recently, the impressive findings of CAPE’s Partnership for Arts Integration Research (PAIR) Project has gained a wider audience through publication in the Journal for Learning through the [...]
Michelle Livas, a teacher in CAPE’s Veteran Partnerships Program, answers the question: What is important about the work you and your students do with your CAPE teaching artist? What is the [...]
CAPE Classrooms is our series highlighting great work from our programs across Chicago. It was a typical day at North-Grand High School. Between periods, the intercom played lively music while [...]
Like John Legend and Common, these students use music to call for social justice in Ferguson, Gaza, Chicago, and beyond Last spring, CAPE music teaching artist Ronnie Malley began working with [...]