CAPE engages students, inspires teachers, and transforms schools by weaving the arts into academics in classrooms across Chicago.
CAPE engages students, inspired teachers, and demonstrates impact by weaving visual, digital, and performing arts into public school classrooms across Chicago.
CAPE increases students’ academic success, critical thinking and creativity through research-based, arts driven education. CAPE works toward a future in which:
• students are valued as creators of culture in our society;
• teachers, artists and students work collaboratively to develop and share innovative approaches to teaching and learning in and through the arts in our public schools;
• teachers, artists, school administrators and parents recognize the arts as a key element in transforming schools into vibrant, creative and successful learning communities;
• professional colleagues and partners regularly communicate and share their practices and research in order to continually improve and evolve the field of arts in education; and
• policy makers, business leaders and all citizens value the arts in education as essential to a just and equal society, a thriving economy and an inclusive democratic culture.
