Ingenuity State of the Arts Progress Report 2015-2016

appendix DATA NOTES This progress report utilized multiple data sources to examine the 2015-16 school year. The lead data source was Ingenuity’s artlook™ suite—a set of data systems that collect and track information on CPS instructor-based and community arts partner-provided arts programming across Chicago Public Schools. CPS arts instructors and other school employees volunteer as Arts Liaisons to collect and report on the inventory of arts programming assets within their schools. This information on instructors, instructional minutes, disciplines offered, and budget, among many other data points, is collected via Ingenuity’s artlook™ Schools site. This data directly informs each school’s Creative Schools Certification (CSC) category, which appears on their annual, publicly available report card each fall. In the 2015-16 school year, 88 percent of CPS schools completed the Creative Schools Certification survey in full, maintaining the significant participation increase from the baseline year (the response rate in 2012-13 was 57 percent; the rate has stayed near 88 percent each year since then). organizations, and individual teaching artists, report their partnership and programming information via artlook™ Partners. The Schools and Partners sites populate Ingenuity’s artlook™ Map. The Map assists the public in understanding the landscape of arts offerings across the district and allows for the opportunity to identify gaps within the system. DATA REVIEW PROCESS CPS Arts Liaisons Arts Liaisons enter data on their school’s arts assets into Ingenuity’s artlook™ Schools site. Once data is reviewed by the Arts Liaison and submitted through the site, raw data and a preliminary rubric report are emailed to the Arts Liaison and the principal for record keeping. Ingenuity Ingenuity checks all information entered into artlook™ Schools based strictly on process-oriented data validation rules and parameters (e.g., no minutes are reported but student access is listed at 100 percent). If new community arts partners are reported, Ingenuity performs research to verify the legitimacy of the organization. Occasionally, External arts program providers, which include museums, cultural institutions, community-based 76 requests are made to the partners and/or Arts Liaisons for additional information and program details. Community arts partners who have yet to be reviewed are not counted in the

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