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GLOSSARY
Community Arts Partner
Adjusted Average
For the purposes of this report, “adjusted average” refers to the
average taken from those schools whose data falls within two standard
deviations of the mean. Schools with data points beyond these
boundaries are known as outliers and have data significantly higher
or lower than the average. Outlier schools have been removed from
analyses in order to offer an accurate picture of school practices.
Arts Integration
The meaningful connection of essential content in an arts discipline
subject and essential content in another subject area such that student
achievement in both subject areas increases.
Arts Liaison
A school staff member nominated by the principal to serve as the
school’s voluntary arts leader and champion. Arts Liaisons help
coordinate and plan all school arts instruction and share information
via
Schools on community arts partners, school budgets, arts
staffing, planning, and resources.
® Suite
The Ingenuity-created data suite of services made up of Schools,
Partners, and Map. The
Schools system collects each CPS
school’s number of arts instructors, community arts partnerships,
disciplines taught, and relevant budget data. The
Partners
system collects data from community arts partners, shows the schools
and communities where they work, and gathers the demographic
information on the students they serve. Both systems help to populate
Map, an interactive online tool for the public to view all
reported arts education-related activities.
Charter School
A public school open to all Chicago children that is approved by the
Chicago Board of Education but operates independently from the
Board and from other charter schools.
Chicago Public Schools (CPS)
Arts Education Plan
A three-year plan approved in fall 2012 that made arts a core subject
and recommended, among other initiatives, that elementary schools
provide 120 minutes of weekly arts instruction and that high schools
offer credits in at least two arts disciplines.
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Any one of a broad spectrum of program providers ranging from an
individual teaching artist working with a single school, to grassroots
and large nonprofits working with one to 150 schools, to major
cultural institutions such as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, which
works with nearly 200 schools. Community arts partners might
also include providers of arts education resources—mostly in-kind
donations of materials and supplies, exhibition space, volunteers,
and so on.
Common Core State Standards
New standards adopted by 46 states, including Illinois, that outline a
higher bar for what students must know in order to succeed in college
and careers.
Contract School
Public schools open to all CPS students and operated by private
entities—community organizations, foundations, educators, and
universities. Each has a curriculum, calendar, schedule, and admissions
procedure that may differ from those of other public schools.
Core Subject
A body of knowledge that all students are expected to learn and is not
an elective subject.
Creative Compass Program
A program which helps Emerging schools move up the Creative
Schools Certification ladder, increase leaders’ knowledge in the arts,
and receive ongoing support for building more robust arts programs.
School principals from Emerging schools are paired with principals
from Excelling schools, who share best practices as well as effective
and innovative real-life models for arts planning and implementation.
As a result, the Emerging schools’ principals build strategic
partnerships, increase resources, and receive direct support in making
arts-based decisions through one-on-one technical assistance.
Creative Schools Certification (CSC)
Identifies the level of arts instruction provided in each CPS school
based on data regarding staffing, minutes of instruction, budget,
culture, and partnerships.
Creative Schools Certification Categories
Excelling (Category 1)
Schools that meet the goals and priorities outlined in the CPS Arts
Education Plan, including Staffing and Instruction, Partnerships,
Community and Culture, and Budget and Planning.