West Chicago End of Year Celebrations 2023
West Chicago’s CAPE After School Programs from across District 33 concluded the 2022-23 school year on May 12, 2023 with a district-wide celebration at Leman Middle School. The celebration...
What Sets Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education Apart
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.
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 2021-2022 Fiscal Year FY22
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Last school year, CAPE’s programs reached more than 3,772 students in Chicagoland schools.
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More than 87 classroom teachers are currently receiving training, support, and materials from CAPE.
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81 professional teaching artists currently traverse Chicago to bring creative inspiration to CAPE students and teachers.
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Students received 14,612 hours of CAPE instruction this year
Stories and Updates
Convergence 2023 Curriculum Share Event
On May 25, 2023, CAPE teachers and teaching artists in the Artist/Researcher Program (A/RP) gathered for an evening of professional sharing with each other. Each year at Convergence, they...
Exciting news for CAPE's Collaboration Laboratory! We are so grateful to be among the recipients of this FY2023 round of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. The...
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