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INTRODUCTION
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Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the City of Chicago, and the Department of Cultural
Affairs and Special Events lead the creation of the first city-wide Cultural
Plan in 25 years. In town hall sessions, Chicagoans call for more arts in
CPS schools. Ingenuity and community leaders help CPS create the Arts
Education Plan, and the Chicago Board of Education declares the arts a core
subject alongside traditional academic subjects.
2012
CPS recognizes media arts as a discipline and
prepares to add it to the Chicago Guide for
Teaching and Learning in the Arts. The Guide
provides a scope and sequence in the visual and
performing arts for principals and instructors
and serves as a road map to connect curriculum,
instruction, and assessment in the arts.
Ingenuity is
founded to carry out
CALI’s vision.
2015
2011
2010
2013
CPS launches the Creative Schools Initiative.
Developed in collaboration with Ingenuity, the
Initiative provides incentives, accountability
measures, road maps, and technical assistance
to help schools grow their arts instruction.
· The Creative Schools Fund, part of the Initiative
since 2013, has to date awarded more than
$8.5 million in grants directly to schools.
· The Creative Schools Certification is added to
the CPS School Report Card, providing parents
and community members a quick look at the
state of the arts at individual schools.
2020
2017
Ingenuity publishes the Arts Partner Standards
of Practice for use by the more than 1,100
arts organizations and teaching artists who
work with CPS schools. The Standards of
Practice includes tools and processes to help arts
organizations improve arts program outcomes.
The Standards also establishes consensus values
about how to define, assess, evaluate, and
improve the quality of teaching artist instruction.
PROGRESS REPORT | 2016–17