Teaching Artist Spotlight: Chuck Jones
Meet CAPE teaching artist Chuck Jones, who has been with us since 2011, and whose students’ projects are on display! He started at Louis Pasteur Elementary School five years...
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.
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.
Teaching Artist Spotlight: Chuck Jones
Meet CAPE teaching artist Chuck Jones, who has been with us since 2011, and whose students’ projects are on display! He started at Louis Pasteur Elementary School five years...
After School Funding Action Alert
5/14 Update: Recently, a number of media outlets have covered this issue. A list of recent articles and news can be found below: WTTW: Chicago Tonight – Latino Voices (May 9....
Young Audiences National Conference 2024
Earlier this month CAPE hosted the Young Audiences National Conference, which brought to Chicago over 200 teaching artists and arts administrators from across the Young Audiences national network. CAPE...
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