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APPENDIX
GLOSSARY
Academy for Urban School Leadership (AUSL):
AUSL is a nonprofit teacher training and school
management organization that currently operates
31 CPS schools. By training highly effective teachers,
developing new curricula, implementing additional
after-school programs, and renovating facilities,
AUSL aims to transform educational outcomes in the
district’s lowest performing schools.
Arts: The study, instruction, practice, and/or
performance in any of the following disciplines:
dance, literary arts, media arts, music, theatre,
and visual arts.
Arts Integration: An approach that incorporates the
arts into other core curricula. Students engage in
the creative process, which connects an art form to
another subject area and meets learning objectives
in both subject areas.
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 artlook ® Schools on community arts
partners, school budgets, arts staffing, planning,
and resources.
Arts Partner Standards of Practice: The product
of a two-year effort engaging more than 350 arts
education stakeholders under the Quality Initiative,
the Arts Partner Standards of Practice include
tools and processes to help arts organizations
improve arts program outcomes. The Standards
also establish consensus values about how to
define, assess, evaluate, and improve the quality of
teaching artist instruction.
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artlook: The Ingenuity-created suite of data
services comprising Schools, Partners, and Map.
artlook ® Schools collects each CPS school’s number
of arts instructors, community arts partnerships,
disciplines taught, and relevant budget data.
artlook ® Partners 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 artlook ® Map, an
interactive online tool for the public to view all
reported arts education-related activities.
Charter School: Public schools open to all
Chicago children. Charters are approved by the
Board of Education but operate independently from
the Board and each other. Each charter school has
a curriculum, schedule, calendar and admissions
procedures that may differ from other public
schools. There are charter schools operated by
community organizations, universities, foundations,
and teachers—all are held accountable for hi