Take Action to Support Afterschool Funding Today!
ACT Now is spearheading a sign on letter to Governor JB Pritzker to encourage him to fund afterschool in the FY 26 state budget. To ensure more equitable funding for afterschool and youth...
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 2022-2023 Fiscal Year FY23
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Last school year, CAPE’s programs reached more than 5,000 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
In this episode of the Mission Matters Podcast, Paul Feith interviews Amy Rasmussen, Executive Director of Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (CAPE), about the importance of arts in educational...
After-School Funding Crisis — Please help today!
Dear Friends, Since last year, CAPE has been one of many after-school program providers across the state of Illinois fighting to maintain funding. In 2023, the Illinois State Board of...
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