As part of the DCASE Initiative for the Year of Chicago Music, CAPE is curating the Youth Music Exchange project! On Tuesday, June 1st, 2021, Northside Prep High School...
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
In this special segment, we interview Maria Velazquez, Executive Director at Telpochcalli Community Education Project. She lets us know what CAPE means to the community, we also get to...
El Arte de Hablar con Mi Reflejo 5/21/21 Zoom Reading Event
We wanted to give a special thanks to everyone who joined us for the Friday, 5/21/21 Zoom Reading Event! In case you couldn't make it and wanted to join us,...
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