A Summer in Review: West Chicago Elementary School District 33
This summer, West Chicago's CAPE teams shared their final projects at the last Community Day at Reed Keppler Park. Teams had tables showcasing their art projects, murals, and even...
Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education engages students, inspires teachers, and demonstrates impact by weaving visual, digital, and performing arts into classrooms across Chicago.
What Sets CAPE Apart
Our unique approach to engaging students, inspiring teachers, and demonstrating impact relies on three strategies: Partnerships, Arts Integration, and Research.
Partnerships
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.
Arts Integration
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.
Research
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.
CAPE’s Impact
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.
CAPE by the Numbers
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CAPE has distributed 2,897 art supply kits to Chicago families since the pandemic began.
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Last school year, CAPE’s programs reached more than 4,258 students in Chicagoland schools.
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More than 110 classroom teachers are currently receiving training, support, and materials from CAPE.
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60 professional teaching artists currently traverse Chicago to bring creative inspiration to CAPE students and teachers.
Stories and Updates
Celebrating CAPE Students’ Cultural Wealth: A Research Project by Sonia Peters
This past summer we had two CAPE Interns, Cady De Camara, and Sonia Peters, who published independent projects that detail their research interests, using data collected from class visits...
Cady De Camara’s Summer Research Project
This past summer we had two CAPE Interns, Cady De Camara, and Sonia Peters, who published independent projects that detail their research interests, using data collected from class visits...
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